Simon:
Good thinking! It's one of the newer (6 months old) scams. You end up with
no money and no car.
Perhaps you could put the remaining money you have left, after cashing the
check, into the El Gordo Lottery (another new one)!
Bill
BJ7
>From: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>
>Reply-To: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>
>To: "'Austin-Healey List'" <healeys@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Scam?
>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:22:28 +0100
>
>Guys, friends, realists,
>My wife is selling her VW Polo and she received the email copied below. I
>say its a scam. The car version of the Nigerian oil ministers widow
>lineIll send you a zillion pounds if you send me a small sum to get
>things moving The small sum vanishes and the zillion never shows.
>QUOTE
>
>From: "taquita campbell" <tqsanb@yahoo.com>
>To: "Alexa Lachlan" <a.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>
>Subject: Concerning Payment...RED VW POLO
>Date: 15 June 2006 10:11
>
>Goodday Alexa Lachlan
>
> Thanks for the prompt mail, i'm o.k with the price.And for the shipping
>i
>will have to handle this myself because i have a reputable shipper of my
>own that always handle my shipping, i will offer you #2900.00 for the RED
>VW POLO, i will instruct
>a client of mine who is owing me the sum of #5000 and he is ready to make
>payment to forward the cashier check to your location what you will do upon
>receipt of the check is to take it to a nearby cashing store or the nearest
>bank to you and get it cashed, after you might have done that you deduct
>your own selling price of #2900.00 and get the rest funds sent to my
>shipper
>and mind you, it is this funds you will be sending to my shipper that will
>enable him to come for the pick up of the ( RED VW POLO} at your place and
>here are the charges he will be facing and they are the custom charges, the
>tarriff to be charge on it and insurance cost so i hope you can get this
>rigth and if so then let me have your name to be written on check,
>your address with the postcode, and your phone number so that i can tell my
>client to forward payment to your location as soon as he can get things
>done.
>Thanks and i await your swift response.
>
> TAQUITA......
>
>UNQUTE
>I have persuaded her to reply and say that she wont deal with any shipper,
>that she wont accept a penny more or less than the sale price and that she
>wont releaser the car until the money is in the accountnot cleared, but
>in hand. But I reckon its all a waste of time and dont want to even
>correspond with Tarquita. (Tarquita Campbellstrange name? Or is it just
>me?)
>Hope you get a laugh out of this at least.
>
>Simon Lachlan
>Comfort House
>Bradninch
>Devon EX5 4NN
>UK
>MkII BT7.
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