Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests Scammer-David Cole-Lurking in CEG Classifieds

Ok so i put up a classified trying to sell my Mystique bumper and had a few good responses.
This guy "David Cole" wants to buy the bumper and basically wants to use me for money laundering. I searched in the database forums for the name and it popped up in a thread for some religious scammer.
ANyway I think we should have more security for us, the users, the real group members so we don't get trash like this and so someone doesn't get taken advantage of.
Here are the two emails. the first one sounded like he was interested so I sent him some pics and info. Nothing he could do anything with.

Good Day Seller,
Please i will like to make an immediate purchase of your Item...Do you still have this Item for sell?..If you still have the Item and you are interested in selling to me,Kindly provide me with the following informations ASAP.
1.Your final asking price on it?.
2.Photo descriptions(if any)?.
3.And mare description about the Item?.
I AWAIT YOUR QUICK RESPONSE.
Have a nice day.
David.

SECOND EMAIL

Thanks so much for your response...
I have forwarded the details to my Business Associate and he is very ok with the conditions and price of the item........thus,your payment shall be issued out to you as soon as you provide me with YOUR FULL INFORMATIONS FOR PAYMENT and a confirmation that you understand all the shipping proceedures explained below.

We shall solely be responsible for the shipping of the item because there are some other items in Germany,Japan and Vietnam that would be picked up for my Associate sametime when the shipper will come for pick up from you, and as such the payment that will be issued to you will include the money for the sales of your item + cost of the shipping.

SO AFTER payment clears your bank,you will deduct the cost for your item and the remaining balance will be sent to the shipper whose information will be provided as soon as you receive the payment .The shipper will contact you after he receives this fund regarding the scheduling of an appropriate pick up date and time.....in order to ensure that it is a time that suites your schedule.....

Every additional expenses like the western union fees shall be deducted from the excess funds ok.
All neccesary transfer papers will be dully signed by the shipper on behalf of my Associate when the shipping agents comes for the pick up of the item.
I will be willing to entertain more of your questions that might arise ok and I hope to hear from you ASAP so that i can forward the informations to my client for payment process to begin immediately.
Thank you.
My regards and do have a nice day.
David.


That is clearly money laundering. Hope you read this "David Cole".

I got the same thing about my wheels i am selling. Its the third time someone has tried to scam me. Another one was Richard Mycroft i believe and i cant remember the other name.

And welcome to everyday for the last decade...



EDIT>The disease of Todras is spreading...

yea whats new, scammers have been lurking ceg for some time now with the same bs attempts...

I got the same email today. This was my reply......

1. $500,000 each
2. Nope, no pictures. It's a suprise.
3. Well it's extra sh*tty. It's broken into 50 pieces so some professional assembly is required. My dog pissed all over it so maybe a power wash is needed.

Go f*ck your mother, Thanks! Have a nice day!

Thats awesome, see this is the first time this has happened to me, so it was a surprise.

thats not money laundering numbnuts! people trying to launder money dont typically have the money originate from the BANK! not to mention the "check" wont even be good to begin with. of course, by the time the victim finds out its already too late.


can we just not have a classified section so people can stop posting "i think someone's trying to scam me"



and btw, if you dont want scam emails DONT LIST YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!! interested people will PM you!

can we on the vBulletin board limit the classifieds to people with over 200 posts or more + paypal or something to verify them?

We should make it so you have to have a certain number of posts before being able to post in the classified ads