[s-cars] Got my first Nigerian scam on my S6 FS

[Bruce Mendel]

I got that one too, but this one from my craigslist ad takes the cake for
english as a second language:

Hello friend,
 How are you for today? I across your placed classified advert on Craig list
and I decide to stop by and make some enquiring over the purchasing of this
placed item, Confirm this to me if this items still available for sale and
more so I want you to state the list of items you have on Craig and the
price for each and to know if a payment could be made a certified check if
yes I will await your response and if not pleas kindly delete my message to
you because am a truck deriver and I will not be coming for the pick up or
coming for inspection of this items so mail me back as soon as you can and I
will get back to you with the payment processing and the pick up . Thanks
Mabel Fisher .
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold McComas" <HaroldMcComas at comcast.net>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: [s-cars] Got my first Nigerian scam on my S6 FS


> Presenting for your Friday Laff theatre.... bad Engrish......
>
> Ad follows:
> "Hi,
>     Good to contact you concerning your advertisement at Audi would like
to
> purchase but you have to tell me directly your asking price in your
reply.I
> believe all you said about it and if there are more to be said about
> it,kindly let me know in your reply as well.I would have loved to view the
> pictures but to be honest i so much have believe in you to the extent that
i
> trust everything you said about it.
>
>    About myself,i am from Sweden and my wife likes an American vehicle.She
> is the one am secretly buying it for on our 30th wedding anniversary which
> comes up next month.
>
>     My wife and I both know our Liquid cash at the moment and i don't want
> him to know am buying this for her until the day.I have discussed with an
> associate of mine who hails from your country and has assured to finance
> both the selling cost and the shipment for me which i will later pay him
> back but the little problem is that the guy is not at home at the
moment.So
> you are the one that will help me to take care of the shipping by this
> simple method:-Hand over it to the shipper when they meet you at home for
> pick up but you will help me to transfer shipping funds to the shipper via
> western union because my associate said he can't issue two different
cheques
> at a time.He has promised to put the whole funds on one cheque and i
implore
> you to be of help to me by paying the shipper when you clear the cheque
and
> deduct your selling price from it.Thanks and please get back to me with
your
> details such as:
>      Full name to be printed on cheque
>      Your postal address
>      Phone number.
>     Thanks and i would be expecting to read from you as soon as possible.
>
> Best wishes.
>
> Mr Gary."
>
> (End of Ad)
>
> Funny, everywhere I have the car listed has a price and pictures or a link
> to pictures. Thought you all might appreciate the chuckle.
>
> Harold M
> 96 Audi S6 , almost sold, we'll see
>
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