vehicle scam for my paintings
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Printed Date: 30 September 2025 at 8:21am
Topic: vehicle scam for my paintings
Posted By: klav
Subject: vehicle scam for my paintings
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 8:24pm
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Theres a fairly popular vehicle scam used a lot over the internet. I'm sure most of you have heard of it. a seller selling a car is contacted by someone over the internet from another country who wants to buy the car, they send a cashiers check(fake) with extra money which is to be sent by wire to someone else (normally a shipping agent)... you deposit the check (it takes two weeks to clear) you send the money... the check bounces etc. http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Scam/Njoku.htm - Link to details. this is where it gets good. one of these scammers wanted to buy a painting i have exhibited somewhere on the internet. I was kinda weary of a person moving from alabama to london who spoke broken english and then sent me a bank of america cashiers check for a couple thousand dollars more than my asking price. the check looks like it was printed on an ink jet and has no watermark. I have the check and the painting and want to f@ck with these people. any good ideas? |
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 06 September 2007 at 9:33pm
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send them a photocopy of the painting
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 07 September 2007 at 6:50am
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Or better yet make a f**ked up version using food colored bodily fluids of the painting and send them that. *Reporting them to the FBI is good too. ------------- |
Posted By: spartan_117
Date Posted: 07 September 2007 at 7:09am
get ur grenades and shotgun. we're going hunting.
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Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 07 September 2007 at 7:28am
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What? Grenades aren't for hunting. (They're for fishing) ------------- |
Posted By: spartan_117
Date Posted: 07 September 2007 at 7:49am
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if you watched the simpsons movie you would know a fly zapper is the best fishing tool.
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Posted By: klav
Date Posted: 07 September 2007 at 9:07am
| Im planning on the fbi thing but may string them along for a little while and then try and sell them the mona lisa or something. |
Posted By: Kirble
Date Posted: 08 September 2007 at 12:53pm
| What you should do is send them a canvas, of the same size as the painting, and draw a large stick figure and a nice message to accompany. =] |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 11 September 2007 at 8:08am
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just do nothing. the more attention you give him the worst. ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Stickman
Date Posted: 12 September 2007 at 5:34am
| Hmmm. Might be safer to take a "non - string them along" action. Not knowing who these people are or what else they might be upto, you don't want a scenario of them busting through your front door with a sawn off shotgun. |
Posted By: Di0xygen
Date Posted: 12 September 2007 at 5:53am
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Simply send them a painting, that you declare as worth 2000$.. imagine the tax they will have to pay on that when it arrives lol. ------------- c==3 |