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I recieved it as follows

Thanks for the mail.I intend to start on how you'll be recieving your payment as soon as possible through my associate who's in US. I'll instruct him to issue out an american funds check in your name the total amount his oweing me on our last transaction which is closed at $3700 ...You'll receive it as soon as possible,Immediately you get this check i want you to take it to the nearest bank and get it cashed and deduct your payment for the whole 6 cbb 05 malesand extra $50 for your running around then deduct $100 for western union charges,you'll wire the remaining balance to the shipping agent through Western Union Money Transfer.For them to come for the pickup in your place without giving you any stress. They will use the funds to settle some customs problem and transport their self down to your place with immediately effect.Let me know if this is ok with you.

Greetings.

NP
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np

on this subject lots of people including me have received lots of e-mails like yours SCAM FOR SURE
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Vince Pramuk
Vince Pramuk Reptiles

You sent his 5CBB animals? and he sent you that email? I don't really understand, Usually scammers like to be smart allicks and such. How's it a scam?

It's a scam cause the check will be a fake. If you were to cash it, your bank will come after you for the full amount.

Here's some websites that describe how this sort of scam works:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/overpayment-scam.html

http://www.fraudaid.com/ScamSpeak/Nigerian/counterfeit_check_fraud/

http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

-Jeff

Anyone willing to pay $3600 for six 05 males has got to have SOMETHING wrong about em.

Alan

They send you a stolen check or money order from some big company like an insurance company. It is a REAL check from them, but the amount has been changed (from maybe $50 to a few thousand $$) and a new name written on it. The bank will take it because it is real. It will take a little while for it to get back to the original source to find out it has been altered. But you will have already sent the cash remainder via Western Union to a foreign country so you are out of luck.

I strung them along and let them send the money order, then called the bank in Texas, and it was as I described. The bank didn't even want the money order for investigation because he said he had a "whole drawer full of them" and it was not worth the time to look into it. Since it was sent via US Mail, I sent it to the Postmaster's Office for fraud investigation. When the scammers started getting irate that I wouldn't send any money or "product", I told them to take it up with the Postmaster, and I never heard from them again.

You can string them along and waste their time with emails and postage, then turn everything in when you get bored with it. Or just ignore them. I have a whole file folder in my email for scammer emails.

I'm sure some of the scammers use checks as you said, but some just make up the act. # and everything too.

One thing you can do to realy give it to them is make them overnight the check/MO, it will cost them more out of pocket.

Be sure to get rid of the fake check/MO right away, as it is illegal just to have one in your posession.

n/p

Maybe this person is trying to get you out of the house to give him enough time to go in and just take the snakes?

I list a few snakes each day, and each day I get the same type of email...They are all scams just erase them!!
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J.Jex