Username: sammycolly - Classifieds Buyer Scam

[Meso 38]

The following scam has been reported:

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> On 4-Jan-2015 someone submitted their contact information in response to your ad in the Dropzone.com Classifieds. Please reply to this email to contact the person directly.
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> Username => sammycolly
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> Name => Samuel Collison
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> FromEmail => [email protected]
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> City => Barton
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> Country => USA
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> Comments => Interested in the immediate purchase of your item. What's the asking price and the condition? Kindly email recent pictures to [email protected] thanks
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> Sam
> 8127334286 (sms is best)

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Remember:

• DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance.


• Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer".


• Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa


• If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check.


• If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.

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[poindej 0]

If you reply to him, you will get this back from him. Check scammer.

> Hi!
>
> Thanks for getting back to me. Thanks for the information and
> pictures. I will put forward an offer of $--- and I will take care of
> the shipping myself. What mode of payment do you accept? The only
> payment I have is by a check.. that is the only way I could complete
> the transaction right now. I am trying to complete this in a very
> timely manner because my allowance would be coming inn soon and can
> take care of things with it without stress or time wasting. You have
> nothing to worry about as the item would not be picked up until the
> payment clears and you have your money. I hope to hear from you soon,
> and you do not have to worry about the cost of the shipping of the
> item, I will have my private transport company take care of that.
> Thank you very much as I await your swift response again. God bless.

[GoHuskers 0]

Same email. Couple emails later, he told me he would setup a Paypal account. MTF

[half-a-greek 0]

Ditto, I got the same response word for word.

[Orley 0]

I got the same exact. sent no info, but on my second contact email to the yahoo email i use primarily, yahoo sent me 3 emails notifying me of "reset password" requests, not by me. Be careful...