I have a hot tub for sale on craigslist and got the reply below back.


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Hello, how are you doing today? am contacting you regarding the item
you placed on CL ,and i will like to know if you still have it for sale
and if it is still in good shape.what is the price are you asking for?
get back to me and i would like to make an outright purchase
immediately so i will advice you that you should withdraw the advert
from the web.Pls i will like to now how you intend to procedure on this
okay but i would prefer that i issue a check in us dollars to you after
which my shipper will be coming over for the pick up once you have
gotten the said check .I read through the advert and am okay with it so
please i will like you to provide the following info so that i can ask
my secretary to issue the payment asap. 1.....Full name to write on the
check 2.....Full Physical address to post the check to 3.....Home &
Cell Phone to contact you kindly get back to me urgntly today so that
the said check will be issued once best regards dr j richard

How sad that Dr. J has to resort to internet scams to make money.
I guess he didn't save anything from his basketball career.

When we were looking for a new home for our Saint Bernard we got a few e-mails from we guessed were dog fighters. They were all worded like yours (with the exception of the check part). They sounded like they were written by someone who spoke English as a second language.

... some speak French up here, but this doesn't sound Canadian, eh?

i will advice you that you should withdraw us dollars and procedure to said secretary. I am okay with it so can i ask
my Physical contact you kindly today once
best regards dr j richard

yeesh!

very similar to the response I got from one guy, I'm selling a 22" flat screen TV on craigslist priced at $300...I deleted the response but the jest of it was
"I am interested in buying your tv,I live in Salt lake City, but the TV is a gift for my son on his birthday...I want you to ship it directly to him , he is currently visiting his mother in West Africa. I will pay you via a western union check and will give you $500 for your item plus shipping to his mother"

This is an email I got twice last month. I responded back with "I don't need the extra money, I'm a millionaire already." They responded back by sending the same email again!

Subject: THIS IS MY THIRD AND FINAL MAIL TO YOU ( Kindly Reply To [email protected] )

Dear Friend,
On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr. Jurgen Krugger.I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned
undelivered.I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email
address on the WILL.I wish to notify you that late Jurge Krugger made
you a beneficiary in his WILL. He left the sum of Thirty Million, One
Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$30, 100.000.00) to you in the Codicil and
last testament to his WILL.If interested,
Email : [email protected]
Phone: +447045724339
I await your prompt response and please keep this very discrete and to
yourself until the transfer of the funds to you is finalised.
Yours in Service,
BARRISTER DAVID SMITH

Typically I take the scammers email address and enter it in one of those "get a free xbox 360" sites to all the spam it will let me enter it in. That way they will have 100's of spam emails to sort through everyday! I have done it to about 20 of them so far.

Hilarious, Jeremy!

That scam gives itself away by saying, "If interested,". If it was legitimate, who wouldn't be interested?

"Only 30 mil...nah, not worth my time."

By the way, it reminds me of what I'd like to do if I did hit the jackpot. Don't quit but call into work every day to say you're not coming in again because you're still rich. Do that every day until they give you severance.

Of course, that's easier said than done. I worked with a young guy years ago who had a 9-5 clerical job who won 3.3 million. He didn't quit right away but took a couple weeks off to "think about it", then quit. Just quit...jeez! It left his co-workers to play short-handed that whole time.

Plus I've never heard of a BARRISTER in the US, I think it is more of a British term. Do they have them in Canada? And setting them up with the spam usually takes a little while but totally worth it to me, just wish I could see their face when they open their email after it! I'm so tired of them posting ridiculous ads on Craigslist over and over, and they are always around $3,000, who falls for this crap?

Yep, we have barristers here. Lawyers in robes.

If I only had a brain...

mostly Nigerian scammers use "barristers" in their mail outs...they learn British English....