Hi Tom
Walk away for this.
You just have to ask yourself the question, who in there right mind would send their minimoog to a stranger with out payment – if it’s too good to be true then it isn’t.
It’s possible that the seller is part of an organized crime gang and would have your address and name and possibly you telephone number – that’s all you need to steal your identity. Stealing identities is the new and biggest problem in the UK and has some very serious implications for private individuals so beware. Alternately, they might just assume you have other studio equipment and come round to your place and steal it all.
So…walk away!
Regards
-----Original Message-----
From: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com [mailto:yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Quazimodo
Sent: 27 June 2005 18:39
To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yamahacs80] Could
someone please explain this one for me....?
Hi
Guys..
Here's one for you all. We all know the ebay scams
don't we?
You bid on a Synth, but don't win it - then you
get all the scam
emails telling you they are also *selling* a the
same synth at a
bargain price etc...
I replied to one such email asking if he was in
the UK.
(I'd just bid on a Mini Moog but was outbid.)
I told him I would only entertian these two
options:
1. I could either go to his place, check out the
synth and then pay
cash before leaving with it.
Or 2. if he would be so kind as to send me the
synth I will check it
out and if it all works and I like it I will send
him my payment,
telling him that he can trust me - I am not a
scammer but an honest
guy etc...
He now emailed me to ask for my address, as he is
going to "send me
the package"...
Something still doesn't seem right about this.
Does this guy just
want my address for some reason? Should I send him
my address and
wait and see if he does send the Mini? Is this a
new type of scam
that I don't know about yet?
I am slightly confused I must say.
Any advice, thoughts would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
TOM
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