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Just received this e-mail:

Hello Fraze,
Thanks for the mail back,The pics are nice.I will like to pay the $1000.00 for the baby Albinos available but it is quite unfortunate that i am not going to be in town as from tomorrow cause i received a call yesternight that i will be going on a business trip, so i will like to make everything fast as possible cause i am buying it for my BROTHER as a birthday present. and i want everything to be in place when i come back. the discription u gave me it is okay. concerning payment i will instruct my business representative whom we did business together and is owing me $3500 and he said he will be paying me via cashiers check. i will instruct him to issue u the certified cashiers check of the above amount ($3500)to you,as soon as u receive the check u will cash it then deduct the cost of your 1 baby Albinos available and wire the remaining balance of $2450 to my shipper via weste rn union money transfer in inorder to make arrangeme nt in coming over to your location for the pick up of the baby Albinos available.u will make use of the extra $50 for the running around. my shipper will be coming over to your location as soon as funds is being sent to him and to make sure that baby Albinos available is in good condition.all receipt paper will be handled my shipper if this okay by u pls i will need ur full name, address and phone number as it should be on the check.
Thanks.
Awaits your soonest reply.

Troy..........

Be sure to let me know if you would like"Troy" as a customer!

Already had this guy try to scam me, but going by the name "Stephen". This is a pox on our hobby, and this ba$t@rd should be locked up. I hope there is a way to prosecute him without anybody getting ripped off. Any ideas?
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Jeremy J. Anderson
No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful. Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.

I just posted above... I didn't even see you had posted the same thing. Well, I think this email went around a few months ago and people were warning each other about it. He must think we are all fools.

Chad Zenner

All you can do really is not to do business with anyone you feel is trying to scam you, I had a scam go down about 6 years ago, I ended up winning the law suit and he had to pay the money he scamed me for plus interest, the only fall back isTHERE IS NO LAW FORCING HIM TO PAY. I never recieved a penny nor do I axpect to, the only thing that happened to him was it went on his credit report that he has a judgement against him,, big freaking deal. he still has the money.
The only way the courts would even consider him as a criminal would be if I NOT THE POLICE BUT I prove he had intenet to scam me from day one, even though I had proof of him scamming SEVERAL OTHERS THE SAME WAY, the courts considered him harmless and gave me the ruling, but being that I won the case , I still lost over $7,000.
All we can do to protect ourselves is to continue to warn others and go by our gut instinct and a little bit of common sense. We are all in this business to make money and even though everyone of us is a competitor to each other we owe it to the business and each other to watch our backs.
Thank you for posting this interesting attempt to do business with a "business ass ociate"
I will deffinately keep my ears and eyes open and as always will be willing to share any information that may save someone a lot of grief.
Bravo!
Nick,
Boa's Ark c.b.r.

Hi there, "Fraze",

I'll bet you a dollar this guy lives in Nigeria
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Linda Hedgpeth
lindafh@frontiernet.net
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!!"

Its a scam alright. I just had my Pontiac Trans Am for sale on the internet. I basically recieved the same type of letter. The letter could read the same but you would insert car/descriptions instead of snakes. I wonder how many people fall for these scams these dirtbags put out there. I always assumed bank checks were good but not so and as my local bank teller replied there really not good since most are completely counterfiet. Makes me wonder why banks would credit your account so fast and let you take the hit a couple of weeks later. Yes, a type of the good old scam.

Randy
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pacificislandboas

I just emailed them back and said they aught to check out the boa forum here on kingsnake, because they were quite the "hot topic".

With the next one I get, I will tell them I will gladly take their check, and like all checks, will be subject to a 2-week clearance period, afterwhich we will make arrangements for him to pick up the boa. I wonder if I would hear back from him??? Probably not.
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Id' go with them instead.

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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin