The SCAM artists have found our site

Yep, these are the ones that end up on ebay
or craigs list. Seems like an unbelievable price. They claim the boat is overseas and that you must send a 25% deposit for it to be shipped to you. Of course, there is no boat. Saw a piece on the news recently. Very prevalent scam out of Nigeria. They only have to find one sucker to earn an entire's year income.

How about this one.


Hello,
Thanks for the mail, due to the high rise of the pounds in the money market we are expanding our search horizon to America and right now i have a client who is very interested to purchase one of your boat . I work by percentage and my clients pay for it not you, and i promise them to look for their choice boat and find it at the cheapest cost possible.

Please i will need your assurance that the boat we are buying is in good condition, the assurance should please be a written and signed one and should be forwarded to my mail address.

He will post to you a certified cashier check for the boat, the amount on the check is $20,000 so you are required to send $7,000 to the agent after deducting the cost of your boat $13,000, this is because the check was issued along with the funds for the shipment in your name, we will not bother you with the shipping arrangements so i have made some contacts and have procured the services of a Cargo shipping agency here in London who runs on constant bases this kind of services along these routes to collect the boat from your location and deliver it to my clients home in ENGLAND.

All we require of you now is to make sure the agency gets the neccessary funds they will need to make the arrangements and secure a date when you have received the checK for earliest shipping arrangements and prompt delivery as i have assured the client, the funds will come from the checK after you have received it and when deduct the money for the boat.


Therefore, i urge you to provide your complete mailing information (which include your legal name and correspondence address), contact phone number so that he can mail the certified cashier check to you.

PLEASE CONFIRM THIS AND PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING:

1.LEGAL NAME
2.CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS
3.DIRECT PHONE NUMBER

I will be expecting the name and address that will handle this transaction where he (our client) will post the check to, as i promise to get more business your way and be fast with that.
Regards,
Dan

we actually received a fake cashiers check when we sold our car on auto trader. luckily, my husband had heard of the scam (i'm the dumb one in the family as anyone who's read my posts can attest to) and we turned it into our bank. they said that there's nothing that can be done about it. now we have our other car up on auto trader and i have received at least 10 of them!