Hey Guys and Gals,

Just wanted to share this occurance with all of you. Im sure it doesnt happen allot, but keep your eyes opened for this.

I have a townhouse that I am renting out. I placed an ad for the unit online. I had this guy "Mike" send me several e-mails for the last 2 months where he was showing interest in renting it out. I told him I would have to have him fill out a credit application and criminal background check first. He said that he was moving from the UK to Chicago and would fill out all necessary documents apon his arrival to Chicago.

2 weeks went by and I heard nothing from him. I had another person interested and filled everything out and I rented the unit to him. Then like 2 days later I received another e-mail from "Mike" saying that he still was interested in the unit. I told him that I already rented it out and he told me that he had already sent me the deposit and extra funds to help pay the shipping of his furniture to Chicago. I checked the mail at the townhouse and there was a UPS there with 4 casiers checks for usd950.00 each. (total of usd3800.00)

I told him that I would send them back to him. He told me that he had his boss send me the payment and that his boss was out of the country now and I couldnt send them back and he was now stranded and needed me to send the payment to his shipping company to send his furniture so he could come to Chicago also. I felt a little bad about this all and thought maybe I would look deeper and help him if I could. I know a couple of the guys well at my local bank because of my business and personal accounts are there. I asked them to do me a favor and check these money orders to see if they had the correct funds in the account.

My bank needed copies of these checks because of some type of fraud that has been happening with Money orders. They got back to me a couple hours later and told me these were fake! They said that they would normally run them like normal money orders and verify funds from the origin account, which there is funds there. Then when my bank does this clearing process (about 3 days) it would show the checks as cashed and OK. But 5-7 days later, when the checks arrive to the Canada Bank that issued them, they would see these are fradulant checks and refuse the funds to my bank and therefore the funds will be withdrawn from my account.

They tell me there are many people out there doing this type of scam. Also, there were many using some story of Lottery winnings and they do the same thing with the money orders.

I would really like to send this guy some kind of nasty virus. If any of you have one to send him, his e-mail is m_mike1960@myway.com. I have a telephone number that is supposed to be his, not really sure. Its 234-181-66643. Thats what came up on my phone here anyways when his supposed boss called me to tell me he was out of the country.

That's downright shady! Glad you were able to pick up the scam before it screwed you. I don't have a virus to send him, but I can sign his email addie up for a lot of stuff. If you had his mailing address... man, that would be fun. Well, it used to be better years ago when you could do C.O.D.

Dave deals with these freaks all the time when he advertises his cars on-line. If he cannot talk to the person on the phone and verify the funds and the person then they are done. Alot of this crap goes on through ebay as well. The people change there names and email addresses like the weather.

The address on the UPS envelope is 5055 E. Univ. Meza, AZ. 85205. The name is Robert Williams. When I called UPS to see if they could give me a telephone number, they told me they couldnt, but gave me the company name its under. They said it was from Morgan Johnson or something like that. The UPS account number was 35E41R. The 5 is possibly a S, cant tell for sure.

I think I know who it is.... Cross of Iron trying to move from the UK to Chicago so he gets a better ping when he's playing on our servers.

Cross...don't go to Chicago>>>> Canada is waiting for you:)
T/A6Pak

I have not let this guy know im on to the scam and am trying to dig out as much info from him as possible. This is his last message to me, kinda funny. He forgot he told me his name was Mike and he addressed the message to Mike, lol.


Hello Mike,
Thank you very much for helping me God will bless you in a million ways Amen, well this is the details for you to send the money to me through Money Gram and i have provided you with money gram locations closest to you .

Name :Onibode Alex
Address :7 TOYIN STREET
City :IKEJA
Zip code :2341
State :Lagos
Country :NIGERIA

Please send the details for the transaction in this format to me when you have sent the money thank you......

TestQuestion and Answer:
Reference number:
Amount sent:
Name of sender:
Address of Sender:

Money gram agents around you below......

NEIGHBORHOOD PANTRY
1124 S SPRINGINSGUTH RD
SCHAUMBURG, IL 601933406
Tel: (847) 891-3200

SPEEDWAY 5338
421 W WISE RD
SCHAUMBURG, IL 601934003
Tel: (847) 524-7076

Let's F**K that guy up... why are the scams always out of Nigeria or another African country?

OK... great idea: Why don't you tell him the apartment fell through but the one beside it has opened. So you forwarded the money to the owners who will have it waiting. Ask him his flight details and his bank account number so you can wire him the money. Tell him the new owner are part of the MOBClan and have affiliates world wide.
Rommel is going to hunt him down.

This is happening a lot on ebay right now. Then they start using YOUR info to pull the same scams. Then you start getting pissed people contacting you because they think you are the one running the scam. I saw a thing about this the other night on t.v. There is a popular one going on for an a.t.v. but always involves them sending you a money order and you wiring money to someone else. That's why you ALWAYS use paypal.

Junkie

Idea. Tell him your email is going to be shut down but you can use this message board to communicate. When he registers we'll have his I.P. and might can find out more...... Lets sink this bastard if possible

Junkie

DONE!

Damn it didn`t work this time..........

I know what you mean bout this stuff happening on e-bay,friend of mine sold his mobile phone on e-bay,and got a winning reult of $450.00 .He given got proper e-mails from paypal saying that he had the funds processing in his account,so he sent the phone off,the next thing he knew ,was no money in his account....that too was Nigeria

I asked him for the bank details so I can wire the funds, but he tells me now all of this:


Hello,
How are you? i was thinking you should have sent the money by now till i got on to see your email .please this means alot to me i need the money quick and yes my shipper is in the uk but since you could not get me a place i though why not send the money down to me instead of my shipper cause i do not have a room to stay yet i hope you understand me, and i also gave you money gram outlets closest to you to make it easy for you to send the money please just cash the check and send it down to me i am in a fix now please if you want me to compensate you for it i will , just let me know please send me the money today ok bye for now.

MIKE

I dont think he would register on the site. But cant I see his IP from his e-mails? When I hit the source key, this is what it shows from him, I cant read this crap, but maybe some of you can.

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Radiation, was that the same guy who tried to buy your 2 copies of Company of Hero's for like $200.00???? teeheehee.
T/A6Pak

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