Jon,

In the past week I've gotten two emails for the Nigerian scams.  What
was amusing is one of them had the ISP as ZWALLET, which I took as a
joke to mean Zero the Wallet.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of JonR
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 7:10 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Warning!! Something doesn't sound right here,I need some
advice please

Kenneth Wilford wrote:

> There is a scam going on right now where people will send you a
"cashier's
> check" for a higher amount than what you are selling an item for and
then
> they want you to send them the balance (which is usually a large
amount of
> money).  Folks go along with this because they think a "cashier's
check" is
> like cash money.  However the kind of check this scam uses is not and
what
> happens is that the check bounces after you have already sent the
other
> person their money.  So you are left holding the bag and the other guy
just
> got your money.  Usually this scam is perpetrated by folks in another
> country.  I read about it in the paper a few weeks ago.  Just a heads
up.
>

This happened to me a couple weeks ago, except the person was a female
from
Sweden...

After several e-mails saying that I was not able to accept "cashiers
checks",
the buyer never replied.

My bank here in NH has put a temporary moratorium on cashing out of
state
cashiers checks due to a counterfeit check scam that is going around the
country right now...

The other scam I'm getting right now is the African Banking
official/Government
official wanting to transfer millions to your bank account, in exchange
you get
to keep 10%-20% of transferred funds...

Always remember "There's no such thing as a free lunch (TNSTAAFL)...

                    JonR

            Sold my vehicle for cash money!!  <<G>>