How to spot a con artist via email.
This is in most cases EXREMELY EASY
Heres an example of an email i got after listing an item for sale on an online classified.
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Hello,
I Want your item
for my son who is doing is programs and also for his birthday in Africa,let me know the specification of item and the total cost of the item plus shipment via DHL, FEDEX or UPS and i will proceeding the payment through bank Transfer without any further delay. provide the bank details for st George or commonwealths.
Expecting from you asap.
Rely IN ENGLISH to my Private mail (adrienne_xx2@yahoo.com)MSN(adriennecole2u@hotmail.com).
God bless you
Regard
Adrienne
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Ok… now.
Number 1, “I Want Your Item”… a generic email spamed to thousands of people at once, the con artist is to lazy to go into specifics for each one, so a generic term like “Item” is used.
Number 2, “His birthday in Africa”. I wonder how an African lady got a copy of the Australian trading post?
Number 3, “Rely IN ENGLISH to my Private mail” This con artist is so lazy he doesn’t even spell check his spam. Ill be sure to “rely” immediately with a link to this here post.
Number 4, “God bless you”. When was the last time you said that to anybody? when someone saved your life? saved your house from burning down? placed an item for sale in an online classified? i don’t think so.
Please feel free to spam these to email addresses adrienne_xx2@yahoo.com & adriennecole2u@hotmail.com.
if i get any response il be sure to post here.
Miles.uni.cc 
OMG, “she” also tried to con me. There’s such evil people in this world ¬_¬
Hello, my name is Mrs Cole hope this item is still available for sale
I Want buy it for my son who is doing is program and also for his birthday in Africa,
let me know the specification condition and the total cost plus shipment via FedEx
or EMS and i will proceeding the payment through BANK TO BANK Transfer without any further delay.
Get back to me as soon as possible.(adrienne_xx2@yahoo.com)
Thanks and Regard .
its answer 3times and if i wrote item specs, its catch it. (she) even send alert or something to my bank with “if u fax me sending list, bank (citi bank) will pay you”. im confused. your post help me understand, its fake. tanks
there is second mail
Hi ,
Thanks for the mail.I really appreciate your response. and I will be happy if you can help me to send the Two PC Notebook .And also let me know the Shipping price through FedEx 2 – 5 days Courier Services.
However this is the shipping address below.
Name…..SUNDAY SEUN
Address….No 1 Darlington Street Mokola
City….Ibadan,
State….Oyo
Zipcode….23402
Country….Nigeria.
Tell #….+2348050346295
let me know the total price including the Shipping Because i don’t want any delay for the shipment.I will be sending the Money through BANK TO BANK TRANSFER .
Kindly give me the details to make the transfer as soon as possible.
Bank details needed below:
Full Name:
Bank Name:
Bank Address:
Bic:
Account Number:
TOTAL COST + SHIPPING COST:
If you still want to continue this transaction let me know?
Regard.
and something from third:
And again don’t forget to send the shipment receipt to my bank immediately you ship the item so that they can update and activate your account accordingly.
And am going to drive down to the Citibank office for the payment right now.
Hope you understand and awaiting to hear from you soon…
Thanks and Regards,
lol
Hallo.
I look for one person her name Mrs Adrian Cole. And I think she lies. I
sent her my mobile phone for her doughter in Nigeria. And she didnt pay
it.
I would like know if she didnt lie to you.
I want to know if she didnt uncover you too.
Thank you.
Your sincerly
Martin
her email adress:
adrienne_xx2@yahoo.com
She did try to lie to me, but i saw it as the obvious fake it was. ANY email asking you to ship the item to Nigeria is 99.9% likley to be scam. DO NOT SHIP TO NIGERIA!
Thanx for this website. Got the same email. Didn’t trust it at all. So started looking on the internet. And found this site. Here are the details:
– Hi ,
Thanks for the mail.I really appreciate your response. am from UK and i want this item for my daughter in Africa and I will be happy if you can help me to send the ().And also i want you to send me the picture so that i will show my daughter.let me know the total price including the Shipping through FedEx 4 – 5 days Courier Services.Because i don’t want any delay for the shipment.I will be sending the Money through BANK TO BANK TRANSFER .
Here is the Shipping Address below :
Name…..SUNDAY SEUN
Address….No 1 Darlington Street Mokola
City….Ibadan,
State….Oyo
Zipcode….23402
Country….Nigeria.
Tell #….+2348050346295
Kindly give me the details to make the transfer as soon as possible.
Bank details needed below:
Full Name:
Bank Name:
Bank Address:
swift code:
Account Number:
TOTAL COST + SHIPPING COST:
If you still want to continue this transaction let me know?
Regard.
–> As long as they don’t pay, you don’t ship. It’s so easy as that. Only they never pay, and you never ship. What’s there to loose? Maybe the effort of an email or two? Are there really people in this world who are stupid enough to give items (they try to sell) for free?
Only thing I wan’t to know; what happens further on? How does there scam work?
Greetz to all of you.
well usually they use some sort of fake website or email that looks official telling you that the payment has been sent or that the payment is pending a shipping number or something like that.
Thx. I think I’m to rational. I would look at my account and see if there’s something. I would never believe a paper they send me. Hope the information helps other people…
Hello there.
I believe this person is acting on different names. She tried to fool me as “Mrs Bellamy Robinson “. The story was the same, and her english was very poor for someone who should be from the UK or US.
I exchanged a few emails, as she was offering more than I expected for my used camera. Quite attractive business. I even gave her bank details for a small account I have, so she could make the payment today. Then she started telling I should ship as soon as possible so my account was “activated” etc… but I happen to have studied banking and never heard of such process. That’s when I was sure it wasn’t an honest deal.
I was suspicious from the beginning but I didn’t want to believe such an attractive proposal wasn’t true.
I hope they don’t get more people to send them stuff….
I’ve checked around and I still have one doubt. What the hell is there on Darlington Street…? Because she always gives the same street address but with different door numbers. Do the items arrive somewhere!?
Hi, fellows:
be very careful with this person.The same happened to me very soon and I just noticed about the entire fake wnhen she/he asked me the shipment scan of my equipment to activate the money tranfer. The product would be given to his son as gift or something, in Nigeria. It´s an old CD laser. It´s a pitty because this situation causes a very bady public image to Nigerians, a really poor and needed people. Most of them are already in jail, in Brazil. Thanks to all of you for precious comments above. Let´s make internet a better place to live without wasting time with these dangerous situations.
Oh my GOD!! I did get the same mail to from 2 motherfuckers, here is the email and name to them: rose perry (perry_rose12th@hotmail.com) and Ms Judy (sisters3ljb@yahoo.com)
So stay the fuck away from them, I had a phone I was selling for 100 Euro, the first one would give me 500 Euro for it, the another one, would give 700 Euro for it, damn this shiteaters :S
I’m from Norway and had the phone on a norwegian site, and the cocksuckers did send me from that ? WHAT THE FUCK!??!
Be Aware!!
thx for this web. She is speaking with me offering me 1000€ more than esxpected. She has a son in Afrika, she is trying to swindle me!. F¡cking woman!
her mail is s.kinkade01@yah…com
i forgot something: she changes the mail but nor the address from nigeria:
Address :No 17 darlington street Mokola
City :Ibadan nigeria
lolololol
Hi everybody!
Here is another cheater (419 scammer) one and this is the newest one. I got this e-mail yesterday. I try to sell some watchmobile phones:
“hello seller,
How are you? I am SARAH of England I am interested in your item so i want to know the cost and the number of units you have for sale and the present condition of the item. i want you to return fast in ( mrssarahsmith57@yahoo.com)
thanks and waiting
SARAH mrs”
I knew “she” (if it is a female) try to cheat me (because this is not the first time when I got similar e-mail, but fortunately I find out that she is a liar and I didn’t sent anything to she) so I said go on lets play her game. I answered her e-mail.
I didn’t need to wait more for she’s answer:
“Hello,
Thanks for the mail, I want to buy this item for my lovely daughter in Nigeria, And i want you to ship the item to him through Ems POST. i want you to get back to me with the total cost of the item and shipment cost to the address below or i can offer you 250 gbp with the shipping due to the urgency involved and Concerning the payment will be bank to bank transfer so get back to me with your full bank information so that i can pay the money..
Here is the shipping address..
Name…..Bada Bunmi
Address..NO 10 Oyemekun Road
City…Akure
State..Ondo
Country..Nigeria
Zip code..23434
Telephone number..23345
Bank information
Bank Name….
Account Name…
Account Number…
Swift code…
Iban…
I will be waiting for your bank information and the total cost to the address
so that i can pay the money…
Thanks and waiting
Mrs Sarah”
I had had time, so I answered she’s e-mail with a total cost like 540 USD (without my banking information of course!) asking she if it is O.K.
I think she will say, yes.
I don’t know how are they able to find the e-mail addresses! Maybe they are looking on the diverse advertising websites?!
All the best:
Levente
from Hungary, Europe
loool
this mrssarahsmith57@yahoo.com and mrssarahmith2008@hotmail.com are the same.
Please check the message this bitch send me.
First email:
Seasons Greetings
I am sarah smith by name,I want to buy this item for my Younger brother that will be graduating in the pastoral school in next three weeks,I am buying these item just to congratulate him.And i will tell you these is my first time of buying item on net and i will need a honest seller to attend to me please.This are what i need below:
1) am okay withe price and i will pay 100eur for the shipping through Ems or any Registered post
2) Your bank details so that i can make the payment as soon as possible
Please kindly attend to me fast because it is urgently needed
And if you have any question for me you can contact me at mrssarahsmith2008@hotmail.com or mrssarahsmith57@yahoo.com or call my number 447031929136
Regards
mrs sarah
I have sent my bank details iban swift code.
2 email
dear seller , i got a call from my bank that the payment as been made and that they have successfully transfered your money to your bank but on order that the money should not be activated yet not until you ship out th item and get back to the bank for verification so i want you to do your own part by shipping out so that you can receive your money safely in your account………..
hope you understand
mrs sarah
3 email FRAUD BANK (please see the fotos)
LOOOOL.
Im smart. But im afraid 50% of people sent the items and no money 😡
Acho que devemos fazer uma queixa a EUROPOL para que rastreie estes email, pois eles dispoe de tecnologia para isso,felizmente nao fui lesado em nada
exatamente, eu fui lesado 250euros mais o equipamento! enfim eludi-me um bocado, e nao vi o perigo!
she still works! here are few more faked email addresses:
dalmart01@yahoo.com
mrskandyneyo@gmail.com
xiaodingzhao@hotmail.com
antoniomonica2009@gmail.com
mrs.magdalene122@yahoo.com
all of them interested in my notebook,all of them require shipping to Nigeria,all of them require shipment details before the payment. faked emails from faked bank (i’ve spoken with Scotia Bank-they don’t issue emails to their customers and of course – do not send any account details anywhere-at least because of Data Protection Act.this woman has provided me even with -faked of course- MOBILE number to scotia’s branch in liverpool,to encourage me to send the item.and you know what?i will call it on monday and record the conversation.somebody has to do something with that.i’ve found the number in the internet – some guy gives it on dating websites to some girls.do you know how to check for who is it registered? +447031929136? or how to check her IP (we talk via windows messenger)?
I have the same problem, the issue is that Im still in contact with him, please help!
What should I do ? to whom should I turn ?
before it lose communication with him
This bitch even emailed me, however spelt everything properly and sent back personal emails whom they have wrote themselves, im lucky i decided to check up on this or i would have been in trouble.
Thank you so much guys you probably saved me my savings!!!
Kind regards
Trent Becirevic
P.S. please check out my business, i am in Australia however have clients all over the world spectrumfp.com.au
Thank you once again
Trent
Hello is so true, i was catch too. i sent my nib and i sent the item that was a phone. i recieve a text almost the same by sandrarickky@gmail.com. the bank that makes our shellment was Scotia Bank and seems to me true because he garantee myself or appears at our conversation. they doesn’t take me money for my account bank but what more could happen if they have my nib? please help me sending email. thanks to share.
— 10/1/1 (5), Cole Wrote:
From: Cole
Subject: GO aunt GoNav S980 Deluxe Ultimate GPS vehicle satellite navigation machine
Recipient: felee777@yahoo.com.tw
Date: January 1, 2010, 5, 1:01 am
Hello I am very interested in the item and i will buy it as a gift
get back to me as soon as possible to talk better.
(adrienne_xx2@yahool.com)
Thanks
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I am from R.O.C TAIWAN
Thks for every body to let me know this message.I almost believed
this email is true,and now I knew she is a big liar,and still lying in the world.Is there any email cop in the worls?
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