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Does this sound like a scam?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Batman, Nov 23, 2007.

  1. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Or even better -- tell him OK and give a fake address, like for a school, tell him to show up on a Saturday, then go stake it out and watch hilarity ensue.
     
  2. jakewriter82

    jakewriter82 Active Member

    I had a similar email response when I posted on Craig's list for a roommate. They said something like "Hello, I would like to move in to your room so please withdraw the advert, I will make sure you get a check from one of my clients before I move in." I sent an email asking if they'd like to see the room first, and asked straight up if they were scamming me. I never heard back from em after that.
     
  3. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    The lack of spaces alarm me a bit. Usually the junk mail I get from Yahoo! has a fucked-up font or spacing style, and they're all scams.
     
  4. AWESOME. post of the year
     
  5. Bad Guy Zero

    Bad Guy Zero Active Member

    so i will not be able to buy tanning bed from you.i is greatly sad.i is looking for other tanning bed.you bad man batman.
     
  6. ArnoldBabar

    ArnoldBabar Active Member

    Tell them you are the daughter of a deposed foreign minister and need to move the tanning bed to an offshore account, and you just need a deposit to prove their trustworthiness in this endeavor.
     
  7. jlee

    jlee Well-Known Member

    Jan de Bont couldn't make a bigger plot hole.

    Edit: Capitalization of "de"
     
  8. Total scam.

    But if somebody offers to make your penis larger - jump all over that shit.
     
  9. OnTheRiver

    OnTheRiver Active Member

    Scaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.
     
  10. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    A Nigerian needs a tanning bed?
     
  11. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    They aren't asking you for money, or to part with the good before the check clears.

    I wouldn't overthink this one.
     
  12. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Maybe it was for that famed African-American, Teresa Heinz Kerry.
     
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