This is an email trail I exchanged last week with a chap in South Africa. I've not heard anything from him since. Any ideas why?
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From XXX@XXX.za...
Subj: Mazda 626
I was fortunate to spot your advert on the net and I like to know if it is still availabe for sale . if available,please get back to me with the following enquiries:
Are you the first owner?
Askingprice?
present condition?
where are you based?
if it will be okay with him he will be making payment via certisfer casher's cheque if you do i want you to get back to me immediately for my client proceed with the payment.and as for shipping i will contact a shipping agent of my client who will arranged for the pick up as soon as the transaction is sealed.I will be looking forward to your response,you can send me the pics through my email.
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From Vin...
Hi, yes of course the car's still for sale; the advert's only 18 months old.
I'm the second owner, it's £1,900 and is in perfect condition. I'm based in the UK, in Newcastle.
Tell me, how will you be able to pay for the car If you are based in South Africa?
Thanks,
V
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From XXX@XXX.za...
Thanks for your mail,everything sound good.My client Is very intrested in buying your car which is ready to pay you with his company cheque which will include the shipment cost and some other bills.
My client made me understand the cheque will be £4,000.When you do receive the cheque you deduct your money for the car and send the remaining money back same day to the shipping agent that is coming for the pick up at your location.
If you are satified with the arrangement kindly send Me your full name and address including your contact Number in order for my client to issue the cheque out in your name.
I will be looking forward to your quick response and The information.Cheers
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From Vin...
Hi,
Can I propose something? I'm keen to "launder" some cash that I don't want the UK Tax authorities to know about. I'd like to suggest that you give me a cheque for a larger amount and I'll give you cash in return.
So, if you were to raise a draft for £12,000, I would sell you the car for £2,000, then give you another £10,000 in change. I don't know ho well off you are for funds, but I'm looking to exchange anything up to, say £150,000 in cash for a draft. If you could get a draft for £152,000, I could meet you with £150,000 in cash and the car. You'd be doing me a real favour.
I'd need the draft to be in a friend's name, "Mike Hunt", as I'm trying to keep this "out of sight", if you know what I mean.
Don't be frightened by the sums; anything from the £2,000 you suggest up to £150,000 would be good for me. Obviously, if this work out, there would be more to come - I need to hide nearly £1.5 Million in total.
Let me know and we can arrange a time and place to meet. I'm keen that we should meet somewhere neutral, like in London.
I'm afraid I'm being bugged by the Police, so to make sure know it's you, we need a codeword to identify that our emails aren't being made up by someone else. How about in each email we quote the words "Chicken Bumswing"? Please use it as the title for any future emails.
I'm keen to move quickly, because if we don't get this brook babbling we'll be left looking like doe-eyed labradors.
V
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Still waiting for a response...
V
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It's a scam.
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I think he knows somehow.
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Adam
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Dear Vin,
I was very interested in your post and especially the £1.5 million you wish to launder. Please send me a cheque for said amount, I will launder it (not more than 40 degrees I suspect, on delicates and short spin?) and return it, less small commission ASAP.
By the way, does your friend Mike have a brother called Isaac? I have dealt with someone of that name before.
Looking forward to receiving your cheque and assuring you of a very quick turn round for your money,
Yours
Phil
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OK, Red Card all of you. Go on, off you go!
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It was the mention of "Chicken Bumswing" that scotched the deal I'm afraid. He was a leading member of the AWB during the apartheid era. Definitely not someone you want to mess with.
Kevin...
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Those of you who, having read Vins post, have told him that it's a scam... PLEASE tell us you're being ironic or something.
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I think they were saying Vin was a scam
must be - surely.
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think he read my 419eater.com pages
a few weeks ago.
make good reading.
lol i wonder why he stopped mailing you.
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FWIW, the origin of "Chicken Bumswing" can be found at the website below.
By way of warning, some of the other sections on the page (thought not the Chicken Bumswing section itself) involve copius swearing.
Don't go there if you're offended by either:(a) swearing or (b) extremely childish humour.
www.playgroundlaw.com/cgi-bin/browse.pl?pid=382
V
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Wasn't 'Mike Hunt' the weatherman on Anglia TV during the late '70s to mid '80s? No really....
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I'm not sure , but he was the groundsman at Lords Cricket ground a few years back!
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I love it when people fight back against the 419'ers :)))
Very amusing post :)
Luke
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I saw a photo of a Nigerian man standing at Heathrow waiting to meet his contact, for one of these scams. The card round his neck said he was looking for someone called Ima Dildo.
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Wasn't 'Mike Hunt' the weatherman on Anglia TV during the late '70s to mid '80s? No really....
A mate of mine used to have a colleague at work called Mike Hunt. Apparently he got so much stick he declared he wanted to be referred to by his middle name instead of his first name so was swapping them round, which made him Roger Mike Hunt... I'm not making this up, honestly! My mate had another colleague called Alec Bush.
;o)
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"Chicken Bumswing"?
I'm keen to move quickly, because if we don't get this brook babbling we'll be left looking like doe-eyed labradors.
Holy cow, I need a new keyboard after reading that.
That last quote reads like something Carcoat Damphands would say. Leafy.
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Carcoat, now who might he be modelled on do we think.....?
The quote is actually from a list doing the rounds a while ago of bonkers things to say and do in boring meetings.
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Vin - I think you need to be careful here. It might be a scam.
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My mum went to a christening a couple of years ago, the baby was christened Richard Christopher D'Arcy.
Nothing funny in that.
Until he starts writing cheques etc.....
...... R.C D'Arcy
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let me be the last to let you down....
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I feel sorry for the poor old SA fella who was looking forward to his good condition 2nd hand Mazda and is now in exile in Botswana because he knows the implications of being involved in international money laundering!
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I know I will be shot at dawn for inane back room babble, but I found that very funny, cheddar.
:)
Alijazz
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>>My mum went to a christening a couple of years ago, the baby was christened Richard Christopher D'Arcy.
Nothing funny in that.
Until he starts writing cheques etc.....
...... R.C D'Arcy<<
Behind A.D Littler, that is the coolest name ever.
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Talking of scams:
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Partnership needed
Sir/Madam
Re:
Future business Partner
My name is Martin Andy. I work with the
Standard Bank Limited as an account officer. In the discharge of my
duty, I stumbled on this domiciliary account that has remained dormant
for three years now with eight million dollars(US$8M) in it. I
contacted my Director and we sent out staff for enquiries and
discovered that the account holder died in motor accident with the next
of kin, his wife.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over 3 years now, I seek your consent to present you as
the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account
valued at $17,000,000.00(seventeen Million US Dollars).That is the
principal amount added the interest for 3 years can be paid to you and
then you and me can share the money. I will get all the required papers
from the appropriate offices to ensure that the bank sees you as the
real next of kin to this deceased customer.
In view of this, I got
your contact in my country's trade journal after which I was convinced
to contact you and introduce this business with you as a foreigner. The
request of the foreigner as a next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that, the customer was a foreigner and I can not
stand as the next of kin to a foreigner. I have agreed to share this
money with you in the mutual understanding of 65%/25%/10%. Meaning
that, you will keep 25% as commission, while I keep 65% and 10% is set
outside for expenses that may be incurred during the proceed of this
transaction. Thereafter I will visit your country for mutual sharing
between both of us. Bear in mind also that I would like to invest my
own part of the share in your country. As I am almost due for
retirement. For us to proceed towards this transaction, you have to
send an application text to the security company as the next of kin to
their deceased customer.
I am writing you so that we can work with
you to remit the money to you as the next of kin. It is a simple
process which will take a short while to process and outside this
arrangement am making with you, The bank management will confiscate the
money as unclaimed.
If I hear from you, I will give you more
information about the fund.
Please contact me through this email
address: xxxxx@xxx.com
Best Regards,
Martin Andy
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Vin - I think you need to be careful here. It might be a scam
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mapmaker - your advice is just a little too late, look at the date of the o.p.
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