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Just for fun, I gave the "pastor" an email quote. He sent me the email below. Anybody want to do this job?
Hello . Thanks you very much for the time and support in regards to the pricing.I will like to proceed on with the payment of the order and i will like you to first of all get the freight charges for the order.I am sending the order to Continental Church Orphanage home overseas.I want to recommend a shipping company which i want you to contact with the order information and get the freight charges.As soon as you get that information from them,Kindly email me back with the total cost of the order with the shipping charges so that i can make the full payment for both the order with the shipping to you.Below is the contact details for the shipping company and the delivery address.They require the deliver and pickup address for them to be able to provide a quote. Contact Details for the Recommended Shipping Company 1.Carrier Name :Cyber Express Shipping Company 2.Contact Name : Mr Mike Fish . 3. Email Address:Cybershippers@live.com Information Needed to Provide Freight Charges 1. Full pick up location address 2.Size and quantity/weight of the order to be picked up 3. Shipping Or Delivery address Below is the delivery or shipping address to were the order will be shipped. Smith Haven , c/o Continental Church Orphanage Home, 673 Ring Road,Accra Ghana 00233,West Africa.
I will like you to kindly go a heard and contact the shipping company with the needed information and get me the freight charges and as soon as that is received get back to me with the totals for us to proceed with the payment as soon as possible best regards. Pastor Lyle . Administrator. Christ the King Church.
I did a Google search, it seems they are attempting to scam other industries too. Check THIS
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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3506 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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Sad part is, these crooks are probably making a killing. They do this to every imaginable segment of the business world.
My friend at the computer store gets them all the time about computer parts....
Check this page out.... If you look to the link and even go back a few pages, you'll even see where they've ordered grandfather clocks, moving boxes, oak boards, surfboards, bicycles, air-conditioned shipping containers, toilet seat covers and absolutely every thing in between.
They must be sending out literally thousands of these emails a day, and you know they probably hook quite a few people who are not savvy to this scam....
-------------------- Jon Jantz SnappySign Walnut Hill, FL Posts: 3396 | From: Atmore, AL | Registered: Nov 2005
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They've nicely given you a contact and presumably will need someone in person to receive the banners and process your pre-payment for the shipping.
We all know it is a scam - so why not provide this information to your local police to follow-up on? At least one person could get some richly deserved jail-time.
-------------------- Tom Henningson De Jager Signs 11474-156 Street Edmonton, AB, T5M 3N2 CANADA Phone: (780) 453-3636 Posts: 41 | From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | Registered: Mar 2007
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Jail time? not likely to happen........ It's a form of "419" scam, commonly sent from Africa.
quote:673 Ring Road,Accra Ghana 00233,West Africa.
These people are criminals and they will tell you anything to get your money; some have even murdered their victims. Do not contact them using your real email address.
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7409 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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I sent a quote backck one time of $435.00 per banner then when he replied I told him I figured it was a scam cause no one would pay that for one of those banners and I was forwarding his info to the FBI. An hour later his e-mail didn't work.
-------------------- Jake Lyman Lyman Signs 45 State Road Phillipston, MA 01331 Posts: 635 | From: Phillipston, MA | Registered: Sep 2002
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Hey Wayne, it's not just a "419" scam because the trick it to get you to pay the shipping of 40 (or so) banners overnight to Africa ($$$). They've got to have someone on this side of the Atlantic to: A) Process your payment for the shipping, B) Take receipt of the banners and C) Make things seem legitimate by answering phones, etc.
If they're exposed or once they've taken in a sucker, they pack-up shop and move on to the next marks. This doesn't necessarily mean actually changing physical locations but could be setting up new web-sites, phone #s, mailing addresses, etc.
Either way, there's someone making the scam possible right here in North America. Even if they are never charged, it causes them additional expenses/headaches to keep moving every time the police come sniffing around.
-------------------- Tom Henningson De Jager Signs 11474-156 Street Edmonton, AB, T5M 3N2 CANADA Phone: (780) 453-3636 Posts: 41 | From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | Registered: Mar 2007
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Weird. I just finished reading this post and checked my email to find this had just come in...
Dear Sales, (I guess my name got changed without me knowing about it)
My name is Lionel and i (lower case) want to you to produce some banners for me,here is the type of banner i (lower case) will need: 24"x60" white vinyl banner with grommets in each of the corners as well as a text which says "Christ Apostolic Church" and i(lower case) want the lettering to me Red.(me?)I will need 100banners and For (suddenly a capital letter appears in mid sentence) the font i (lower case) will (would) like you to use the one you think will best suit the job and also (run on sentence) i (lower case) will need you to create a proof for me so that i (lower case) can get it approval (???) for you to start the banner when payment is being done. (okay, are we getting it yet?) I (WAHOO, Lionel found his shift key at long last!!!) will also like to know the form of payment you do accept so that i (oh well, that didn't last long) can make payment for you to start the banners and how long will it take you to complete them because i (creature of bad habit) will need them within 2weeks.For the shipping as soon as you get me the price i (oh, I give up) will recommend you to a shippers ( who will come for the pickup tp the delivery location which i (sheesh) will provide to you as well as the shippers address.So can you get back to me with the banner quote. Thank You. Lionel Robbins
(lionelrobbs@yahoo.com)
So remember, kids! If you don't know the sender, they don't refer to you by name, don't identify your business by name, have a free email account and the grammatical skills of an iguana on Valium...
...IT MUST BE SPAM!
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
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I got that identical e-mail this am too! Old "Lionel Robbs" must have been a busy boy! I hit the junk button....then a few minutes later I was contacted by someone else that I inherited a fortune, all I had to do is confirm my contact info. Hit the junk button on that one too....dog gone it...never going to get rich quick!
-------------------- Patricia A. Raap Raap Signs 2615 Arthur Coopersville, MI 49404 616-677-0158 pat@raapsigns.com Posts: 612 | From: Coopersville, MI 49404 | Registered: Nov 2003
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You've got to have fun with them Rick, just like telemarketers. Last scumbag scammer, I told him the banners were something like $1,500 each, must be paid for in full up front in cash or livestock and must be picked up personally by him. Then I asked when he'd like to set up an appointment to go over the particulars & sign the contract.
BTW, last week I got a telemarketers to scream the F word at me, then hang up on me. SCORE!
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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We all know it is a scam - so why not provide this information to your local police to follow-up on? At least one person could get some richly deserved jail-time. ______________________________________________________________
Reporting them would be a waste of time. First of all it would take 14 years to go to trial and once it did someone rights would be violated, and then there would be racial issues and then throw a little discrimination in there and get some trial lawyers excited...YEP! pointless
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@ Ray . . .and Dudettah! . . . and how many times can 'will' actually be used in any given paragraph?
but, i will like to tell you I enjoy very much this Letterville communication type.you will please send payment of reply for this letterville communication.i will contunue to use word will until you will comply with what you will do.I will not concern you with shipping details like pastor lyle will.you will send check only.it is my will.
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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Tom, I don't see why they would really need someone in the mark's area to take delivery of the actual banners. Once the mark has sent the shipping money overseas to the scammer's "shipping company", that's it, the scam is completed.
If they do need someone on this side of the ocean, maybe they need some truck and office lettering...
-------------------- Frank Smith Frank Smith Signs Albany, NY www.franksmithsigns.com Posts: 807 | From: Albany, NY USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Ha Ha! Frank maybe we could offer to set them up with a logo and some stationary also...
I just assumed they will need someone to pose as the shipper because, I'm not sure how other people work, but I don't usually pay for shipping until the goods are picked up.
Rick, maybe you should tell them that you've looked around and found a cheaper company to ship the banners to West Africa. See what he says..
-------------------- Tom Henningson De Jager Signs 11474-156 Street Edmonton, AB, T5M 3N2 CANADA Phone: (780) 453-3636 Posts: 41 | From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | Registered: Mar 2007
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