# Having fun with scammers.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-fun-with-scammers/324271>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 30, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-fun-with-scammers/324271 "2005-09-30T22:54:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-fun-with-scammers/324271/1 "2005-09-30T22:54:29Z")

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Due to the financial difficulties one encounters while out on strike, I have put my rather extensive NASCAR diecast collection on the market. This next week I am having a garage sale and hope to sell of big chunk of the collection. Today I received an email from a gentleman name James and he has generously offered to buy my whole collection sight unseen. The email is as follows:

> [@](#):
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> I am interested in buying your (cars )  
> will like to know if you would accept a certified cashier check or money order  
> for the payment, your full name and address including your phone  
> number is also needed in which payment will be sent to .i have a  
> shipping company  
> who takes cares of my shippment .So don’t bother about the  
> shippment .  
> ,urgent response is needed for procedure of payment .  
> regard…  
> james.

Two things stand out peeked my curiosity. As I stated above, he has no idea what cars I have available. I have the collection listed in a large Excel file and about 30 folks have requested the file. This guy had not and did not ask for the file. And he doesn’t mention a price. I have not placed a price on the entire collection in any of my ads. The collection is worth about $30,000 book value, I would like half that to sell the collection complete but would take $10k.

I replied to his email in one sentence a bit ago, I hope to hear from him. My reply? $25,000 and Western Union only. I shall now wait and see what happens, I have a feeling I won’t hear from James again.

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**Author:** ![aamco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@aamco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aamco)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-fun-with-scammers/324271/2 "2005-10-01T01:27:35Z")

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[A story to inspire you](http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/).

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**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-fun-with-scammers/324271/3 "2005-10-01T06:13:09Z")

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Two more excellent scam-baiting sites :- [Scam o Rama](http://www.scamorama.com/) and [419 Eater](http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm) .