posted on July 28, 2010 12:52:44 AM
There must be a rash of these scams going around at the moment. I just got this one from the USA. never seen one quiet like this one.
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Hello,
I am Mark Kimberly, from Tacoma, (WA). We are interested in purchasing some
of your products, I will like to know if you can ship direct to my client in
New Zea-land, I also want you to know my mode of payment for this order is
via Credit Card.
However, i will entertain you response, if you can get back to me with the type
of credit card you do accept for payment.
I will await for your email with the current price sheet and the list
of items you have available in stock or a link to your website
where i can find prices on each of your products.
Kind Regards,
Mark Kimberly.
Ex-Press Quiltworks Inc.
3419 6th Ave
Tacoma, WA 98406, USA
posted on July 28, 2010 02:16:00 AM
wow,working from 9 am to 8 pm? five days a week.
This is not new,it has been around for years.
Once I received an email from a shopowner who claimed to be in Malta,he wished my family well and placed an order worth 789 dollars,He said he will send me 2 USPS postal orders each worth US$975.
I am supposed to deposit these money orders ASAP into my bank checking account and then either buy a cashier check or via Western Union remit the difference.
I turned these USPS postal orders to the post office fraud division,by the time I called them,they have seen these cases many times .
I should have kept one for myself as souvenir.
BTW,these USPS postal orders come from London,dont know where they are printed but it is not free,so this guy lost money buying these postal orders.
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There is no 'Global savings glut',only wild horses and loose bankers.
[ edited by hwahwa on Jul 28, 2010 02:21 AM ]
[ edited by hwahwa on Jul 28, 2010 02:22 AM ]
posted on July 28, 2010 06:50:15 AM
"I await for your email" = "I will take your email address and sell it to a bunch of companies who will flood your email box with tons of spam"
This is very typical wording from scammers on Craigslist. I use Craigslist all the time, and I used to get this type of email regularly. I would list an item and get 3 or 4 of these responses all the time. I removed the email feature and just put my phone number in the listings. If they want the item, they can call.
posted on July 28, 2010 07:39:09 AM
We tried to sell, a year ago, our very nice SUV on Craigslist. We were daunted by how many junk e-mails we got in return. Next time, we'd remove that option, for sure. Some of the e-mails were unbelievably crude.
posted on July 28, 2010 04:38:36 PM
As i said i have not seen them before. Are the land addresses for real or are they all fake.I have no intention of writing to them.Not that stupid.Just curious.
posted on July 28, 2010 07:03:51 PM
Address and business is fake. There is a church on that side of the street that takes up the whole block. If you google the name of the business, nothing comes up. If you google the address you will find an "approximate" location. I did a street view of the road and saw the church on the whole block. Scumbags!
By comparison, if I google my street address of 4071 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland OR 97212 it will also include the addressee: Shag Midcentury Modern.
So, to answer your question... it is a scam. Not to mention that the email address is gmail. I would hope that a real business would have their own website and use their web address in it... not a gmail account.
this is all very easy to do by googling the business name, google the address, google the phone number, etc. there is no info on this "corporation".
posted on July 29, 2010 05:15:38 AM
I was 99% sure that it was a total fake. just wanted conformation of this. I never write or deal with them anyway. I get about 3 or 4 emails a week out of africa or neighbouring countries and the u.k. but never the usa before.
