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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow. My immediate thought is "scam". Also, most people pre-book a hotel and have to show the credit card upon check-in and it sounds like the robbery happened after wards, so technically, his credit card would still get charge the hotel stay I would think and he doesn't need that at all. I'd go to the American Embassy for help if it happened to me, not send out an email to somebody I hardly know. I'd also be calling CLOSE friends and family. Yes he doesn't have cell phone to make calls, but surely there are good people in the hotel that will let you use their phone to place a few calls and I think they might not even add it to your hotel bill. And if he knows his bank account number 9which most people do), he can have money wired to him, I would think.
So my initial thought was "scam". My final thought is also "scam".
Edited by mycrob
08/13/2010 12:24 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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One of the many odd things about this is that it really does "sound" like my one-time-only ebay customer. I went back and forth with him on email (back in 2009) and this is just exactly how he speak/writes, if you know what I mean. I'm not naive enough to send him a pile of cash, but I'm not going to be totally shocked if it really is HIM. When I get home today I'll sift through my old emails and find his phone number (in Toledo) and give him a call. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1000 Posts |
It is definitely not him, unless he is the one that hijacked my wife's email, because the body of the message is identical to the one sent from her email. Poor grammar or broken English in this case is just a coincidence, I am 125% sure.
I would not bother contacting him unless you are just wanting to be a good samaritian and warn him his email account is currently hacked.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10284 Posts |
It's a scam! Do not respond and if I were you I would change my email address in ebay, Paypal my passwords and add this person to your blocked email. Scammers prey on nice people. They see kindness and good as a weakness. I don't know how they got me once, but one morning I went to ebay where I had a link that showed me what wheezydog was selling before they made us all so anonymous, and I was selling complete sets of golf clubs in a fancy leather bag and cart. Nice clubs and little wood mittens and all. It was a dutch auction, I also had some nice woods and drivers up as well and sets of irons and putters. I tried to sign in but I couldn't. They had my password changed and later I found that they had my email changed and the buy now went to a Paypal account that wasn't mine. I was lucky I checked it because nobody bought any of those items with Buy it now and I was able to get it all straightened out with ebay on the phone. These people are ugly. If I ever find a scammer in person, I just don't know what I'll do. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1291 Posts |
MINT_MARQ - Gotcha! Sorry...I didn't understand your original post to mean that the message your wife received was verbatim to mine.
Did your wife abandon that email address and get another?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1000 Posts |
Nope...We were able to go through the Yahoo prompts to change the passwords and since have been very vigilant to make sure it does not happen again.  If only the Nigerian scammers would use their powers for good instead of evil we could solve the world hunger problem. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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One of my friends was "stuck in the uk" too.
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Valued Member
United States
297 Posts |
Hey this happened to my dads customer also. See what happens is that their email is stolen so all the passwords are stolen through it. Here is what my dad did, you can ask them to call you collect to hear their voices or get a program to track the ip adress that it came from. When my dad did this it came from Nigeria not london then he knew it was a scammer.
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Valued Member
United States
297 Posts |
But calling collect will be the best option or if your good with computers track track their IP address, I'm not if I'm allowed to list a program to use on this thread though. If he refuses to call then you know not to send any money.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
 Steve, I am stuck behind my desk right now, please send 100 Ike's to help me out. I wonder what that guy was thinking. One ebay deal and he thinks he can ask you for money, that takes some cojones grandes to do that. |
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Valued Member
United States
297 Posts |
Tim, I highly doubt that its the same person that dealt with him on ebay that is doing this its most likely someone who got his email account passwords. |
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Valued Member
United States
230 Posts |
I got the exact same email from a friend of mine about a year ago. It's a scam.
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Valued Member
United States
462 Posts |
Being stuck in the UK is not so bad.
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Rest in Peace
United States
1729 Posts |
Scammers operate on percentages; if only ONE of a HUNDRED e-mails results in a reply, with money, the scammer has won. My e-mail address - which I've used for over 16 years - has often been spoofed, as I receive all kinds of amazing offers from myself. My e-mail account has NEVER been hijacked. It's probably easier for a scammer to spoof (use another e-mail return address than his own) than it is to hijack. And in spite of endless warnings, Internet n00bs are still out there. They'll believe anything, especially if it is a something-for-nothing scheme. Hence the % operations that are worth the time and effort to the scammers, most of whom are not from Nigeria but Poland and Ukraine and operate full-time to suck $ from Internet users. Want some rib-cracking belly laughs? Go to http://www.scamorama.com/ and enjoy! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
602 Posts |
Hey, I'm stuck in London. Will you guys send me some rolls of c oinage? WOLF
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Posted 08/13/2010 12:40 pm
