If you have been following the scam---here is the latest emails I received from the scammer:
"As I mentioned, I have the title clear, on my name.
I can guarantee you that you'll love the rig, my father took very well care of it, he always garaged it and serviced it on
time...you'll see all the service and maintenance records too.
If the rig proves not to be as I mentioned, you have my word that I will pay for the costs of your tickets or trip costs.
So, from my point of view, I can have the deal done any time you wish.
I told you that I am in the military. I am stationed at Ft Riley, KS.
I am not allowed to leave the base without a strong reason.
Also, I came up to Lafayette 2 weeks ago to meet someone who told me he is very interested in my motorhome, I took 5 days off to meet him, but he never showed up, he just told me that his lender did not approve his loan and he is no longer able to buy the motorhome.
So, I made all the trip for nothing.
It is difficult for me to leave the base, I also don't wish to make the trip again for nothing, so I propose you to meet in Lafayette, see the rig and all the papers, test drive it, inspect it at a service or mechanic, as you proposed, check it
at DMV, and if you find it as expected, handle me $3,000 in cash in front of a public notary and for the balance you
can give me a certified check or whatever you prefer.
We will put a time frame for the balance, at your proposal.
Please then ask your wife to send the $3,000.00 ON YOUR NAME, here, in Lafayette and as soon as I get the deposit confirmation, I will take up to 5 days off and meet you and have all the things done.
In order to place the deposit, please go to
Please click on it and you will see where is located the nearest money gram office from your place.
You can also send the deposit from your local Wal mart, if there is one in your area.
Or if you let me know your address, I will map quest the moneygram offices in your area.
All you have to do is to ask your wife to go in person with cash in hand to your nearest money gram office
and tell people there that she wishes to send $3,000.00 to her husband (you), in Lafayette.
Once the transfer is done, they will give you a reference number (a 8 digits #).
Please email it back to me together with:
- sender's full name and address - your wife
- receiver's full name - you
so I can call them for the confirmation.
Or you can simply scan the receipt from Money Gram and email it to me, so I can check the transfer's availability.
As soon as I call MG and they confirm the deposit, I will fly up to Lafayette, meet you and have all the deal done.
If you like the motorhome, we go together to a moneygram office and you pick up the deposit and handle it to me, and for the balance you handle me a check."
and this one:
"As soon as your wife manages to do the moneygram deposit into your name, in Lafayette, I will fly up there the day before and meet you next day, see the rig and all the papers, test drive it, check it at DMV, inspect it at a service or dealership and if as expected, we seal the deal.
As soon as the deposit is done, I will consider it a deal with you and reject all the other incoming offers I get.
All your wife has to do is to go to a moneygram office in your area and tell people there she wishes to send $3,000 to her husband (you), in Lafayette.
It will only take you a few minutes and there will be no extra charges for you, because as I promised, I will pay for the $90 moneygram
deposit fee.
In fact, please ask her to subtract the moneygram fee from the amount to send, so when we meet the amount to be
picked up will be $2,900.
When we sign the papers, I will consider it a $3,000 deposit, because as I mentioned, I will pay for the moneygram fee.
To call moneygram for the deposit's confirmation, I would need the following details:
- the reference #
- sender's full name and address, as on the receipt - your wife
- receiver's full name, in Lafayette- you
- amount sent - $3,000 ($2,900 to be picked up by you)."
and this one:
"Regarding the moneygram deposit, as I mentioned, I made the trip once for nothing up to Lafayette, because the buyer from TX did not even show up to our meeting.
Also, in order to leave the base, I need to get a permit and it is difficult for me to get one, especially for the same reason - selling my vehicle, so I must make sure that I will not fly up there again for nothing.
That is the reason I have asked for your wife to send the $3,000 moneygram deposit, to you, in Lafayette..
As soon as I call moneygram and they confirm that the $3,000 deposit is available, into your name, in Lafayette, I will consider it a deal with you, get the flight up there, meet you next day and close the deal.
We meet, check the vehicle and all the papers and if as expected, you pick up the moneygram deposit and handle to
me, when signing over the papers. For the balance you can handle me a check, or whatever you feel comfortable, after you get the funds form your lender.
As I mentioned, I will have 5 days off, so there will be enough time for us to close the deal.
I have the smog certificate valid and also all the service and maintenance records up to date, so I believe that we will be able to close the deal in one day.
I hope to get good news from you during the day."
I'm afraid he will have a long wait for me to send any money!! I hope this will help someone in the future from losing money to a scammer.
Curt
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too bad we could not find soneone who lives there and get them to meet with a couple of state troopers.
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flhtci-rider wrote: too bad we could not find soneone who lives there and get them to meet with a couple of state troopers.
where would you send the cops??? he can pick up the money at any moneygram location... He is having her put the deposit in the husbands name to conceal his identity.
Guess the cops could flag the moneygram to call them when it is picked up, but if there is any delay, he will probably run...
Methinks the State Troopers would be in vain. The crook is not in the US, once the 'deposit' is verified to be 'deposited' the crook will steal the funds by claiming to be the victim and transferring the money offshore.
If someone actually got this far into this kind of a 'deal' and then actually went thru with it, then I have no sympathy for them.... I know the OP was just playing with this scammer from the begining and trying to see how far it would go, but really.... Are people that naive out there that they would actually go thru something like this??? If so, then my faith in humanity is even lower then what I already think humanity already is!!
Gotta reduce the gene pool some (on both sides of the fence!), if that's the case!!
Wow..... I've done some pretty stupid things too, but something like this??
Do a search for "scam the scammers" and you will find a group of folks that have a lot of time and spend it spoofing these scammers. They turn the tables and get them to spend their own money for overnight mail etc. before letting on that they know the scam. Some take advantage of the scammers lack of understanding of the English language and American slang - even getting them to pose for pictures holding ridiculous signs.
Here is one such site. I don't condone or condemn it. Scam the scammers
Evidently there are people out there who fall for this scam and that is hard to believe especially after all thepublicity that it recieves on this forum. please people this is a (SCAM)don,t fall for it. This person uses the same line everytime, nothing changes except the name of the potential victim.
Nomadac wrote: You might check the FBI website as I believe they have an Internet Fraud section that pursues these types of Fraud.
That is what you do! Local and state police want nothing to do with this stuff, but the feds are doing something about it when it gets reported. Problem is people are afraid to report it thinking that they will end up looking stupid.
Tarponteaser wrote: Methinks the State Troopers would be in vain. The crook is not in the US, once the 'deposit' is verified to be 'deposited' the crook will steal the funds by claiming to be the victim and transferring the money offshore.
That is what happens. They have all the info. necessary to claim the deposit. I believe I read a post some time back where a couple actually followed these instructions, and was in the process of purchasing airline tickets to meet the seller. A very unpleasant wake up call, but people do get taken by these types of scams, a chief reason why this same scam is used over and over.
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