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I've gotten two this week from different people. It's a form of the Nigerian scam. The scammer/buyer sends you some kind of check for waaay more than the purchase price of the animal and then wants you to forward the "change" to their shipper. I belong to a couple of horse lists and this has been going around for a couple of years with the horse crowd. This is the first time I have been contacted by any of these scumbags....and two times in a week........GEEEE lucky me!!
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Linda Hedgpeth
Sierra Serpents

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW" what a ride!!"

>>I've gotten two this week from different people. It's a form of the Nigerian scam. The scammer/buyer sends you some kind of check for waaay more than the purchase price of the animal and then wants you to forward the "change" to their shipper. I belong to a couple of horse lists and this has been going around for a couple of years with the horse crowd. This is the first time I have been contacted by any of these scumbags....and two times in a week........GEEEE lucky me!!
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>>Linda Hedgpeth
>>Sierra Serpents
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>>"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW" what a ride!!"
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"To be the best..........You must lose your mind."

yeah, apparently scams are amoung the chief export in Nigeria...

chris
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www.chrisolsonreptiles.com

Yes Linda, I get them ALL the time. I hate them. They are usually some Old Soviet Scam where a Rich Uncle passed away, but they Need YOUR help. LOL. It would be SOOO sad if someone was THAT crazy to really help them. Boy that would suck. LOL.

Setup two email accounts. One is for forums, ebay, etc.,the sites that display your email address, sell list of email addresses, or don't run software that prevents address collecting. Never unsubscribe to a list. It only confirms a valid address, just delete the spam. The second email account is for personal/business use only. I don't receive spam on my second account but my hotmail/msn account gets 10 a day and filters are maxed out.
Try it, it definitely helps.