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 Post subject: Two Different Money Order Scams I encountered
PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:04 am 
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I received money orders also from someone from Republic de Benin for $8,000....except they wanted me to cash them here in the states because they were US Postal Money orders and they were supposed to be payments for his artwork except he couldn't cash them....if I cashed them 10% would be mine...this sounded "too good to be true" so then I did investigating and found this website! What is wrong with these people? How can they live with themselves? Then I posted a cd changer on craigslist for $90 and I get an email offering me $150 for it. Once I agreed this was the email I received:

This is an official email directly from our service inorder to notify both buyers and sellers once paymet has been processed and approved.Since you have receive the payment confirmation email from us regarding your item,we advise you as a seller to send out merchandise within 48hours and the reason why we made this policy was that some sellers aren't not faithful because after payment has been received , they would intend not to release the merchandise for shipping.Once payment has been approved by our service,we are assuring that buyers can't stop or retrieve money order unlesss the seller write us saying He/She is no longer interested in the transaction.

With the payment confirmation we sent to you,it shows that your payment was received by our system on 31th August 2006 , so be expecting a money order of $150.00 within the next 3-5 business days after confirming that the package tracking # you emailed us has been shipped via the courier service used by the buyer.Kindly notify us immediately shipment has been done so as to mail out your postal money order.

If you are really serious and willing to go ahead with this transaction,our advise for you as a seller is to go ahead and contact the buyer for shipping documents inorder to make fast arrival on your payment.

If you have any more question about your payment,feel free to reply back to this mail and we will be glad to answer all your questions.Looking forward in serving you the best online auction in the future.

Thank you for using United States Postal Service. We look forward serving your online auction payment needs in the future.



If it hadn't been for all of the mispellings and bad grammar I would've thought it was legitimate....when I saw that I did research AGAIN and AGAIN found it on here!!

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:30 pm 
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I am glad that the information on our website was able to help you to see it was a scam before it was too late!

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:36 pm 
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if nothing else, the scammers should at least check what country name they use -- the correct spelling of Benin is 'Republique du Benin' in French


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