Anybody else get this email?

Don Hanson III

Don Hanson III

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From Grave McFly;

Hello
Your artistic knives was introduced to me by a friend of mine whom as purchased your knives before due to the fact that i reside in North Yorkshire United Kingdom i will not be able to come and view the once i want in person but i would like you to send me images of those that you have available for sale and pricing so that i can own some of your piece.I hope reading from you soon.
Regards
Grave


He caught me with a knife available. Pretty bad english for an Englishman but I figured I'd give him a shot. He then sent a bad $4500 cashiers check for a $1700 knife.:confused:

No, I didn't send him the knife and balance from the over pay :p

Anybody else? I know of one maker who got it and just replied with available knives. He's goin to have some fun with this guy :D
 
Haven't gotten that specific one, but over the years have gotten many with the same tenor. If I have even the slightest doubt about the authenticity of something like that I always lay down a very specific set of rules in the reply. Naming a specific payment type (international money order, made out in US funds, to me), and make it clear that nothing will be shipped until 2 weeks AFTER the money order has cleared the bank. Next I specify the ONLY shipping method I will offer for overseas (USPS Global Priority Mail), and insist that it be fully insured.

Usually if its NOT a scam, the buyer will agree to my terms....if it's a scam, I usually will never hear from them again. Any mention of over payments, or credit cards from an overseas source and thats the end of the deal.
 
I know of two others that got emails but ours came supposedly from Denmark. He used a name of an associate that sounded familiar but you couldn't place. We tried to get money first but no return answer.
 
This is a scam. They send you a bogus check and hope to get real money from you in return. You take all the risk cashing a bogus check. The bad grammer is because he is probably from Nigeria. These type of scams are everywhere. Anyone wanting to send you too much money and you give them the balance is a SCAM.
 
Nigerian Check Scam. He want the check deposit into your account. He call in day of so to have you send him money i.e. $150.00 Western Union. Of course the check is no good. These are very common. I got a 3000.00 check around here some place just like it.
 
Guys I know it's a scam :) Just wondering if anybody else got the email.

I knew the check was bogus when I saw the amount. It was a Bank of America check and just for curiosity I call with the numbers, they said it was bad.
 
Don, also had one but mine was from Denmark. Someone named Phard Murray, strange name for a norse person. Wanted to know if I had any available. Smelled bad to me. They keep trying.
 
BlackToe Knives said:
Nigerian Check Scam. He want the check deposit into your account. He call in day of so to have you send him money i.e. $150.00 Western Union. Of course the check is no good. These are very common. I got a 3000.00 check around here some place just like it.
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HaHaHa!!! That's funny. Your Nigerian style post cracked me up :D
 
I got the one from Denmark also. Sounds like the same one Brion and Mike got. Phard Murray was the name on mine as well. Exchanged a couple of emails but sounded fishy. Named a "friend" of his who referred him but I can't find anything on the friend.

Sounds like someone got a list of names and is phishing.

Glad you posted this up. May have saved me a a bit of hassle.

SDS
 
Even though I don't have a web site, I get these emails every now and then.
I usually delete it without reading much beyond the first line.

What I am concerned about is the fact that my wire transfer for $5,497,395 USD has not showed up in my bank account. I was being given the money because I have the same last name as a man in Thailand, who died childless and intestate. All I had to do was wire the lawyer ( he said he had practiced for 20 years) $1000 to pay the probate fees, and he would claim me as sole heir. The estate actually has $9,786,475 in it, but the lawyer was going to keep the balance as his cut. He assured me that this is legal in Thailand, as long as there are no heirs.
I sent him the money, my bank account numbers ( so he could deposit the check securely by wire), PIN numbers, full name, birth info, SSN, address...even my mother's maiden name....and nothing has showed up yet? What up with that???

Sorry, got to go, I just received an email from the bank saying all my checks have bounced???

Stacy
 
Ah ha! Thanks for posting this. I got that email and although I suspected it was bogus I had just shipped a couple of knives to someone near where this person claimed to live so thought it was possible.

Suspecting a scam I told him that I wouldn't send anything until whatever cheque he sends me clears. He most likely won't send me anything after my warning but now that I know it's a scam I think I'll mess with him. At least make him pay to mail a few cheques out to me.

Thanks for the post.

Sean
 
Phard has been busy, I got one too. Let me guess, his friend Anthony Levit told him about your knives, and he is very excited to get one ?
 
I get quite a few emails from overseas and most are legit. It is amazing (to me) how much W2 I've shipped to a dozen countries, without any probs. I've also shipped knives overseas but not many. So I have to assume the email is legit until proven. I did suspect this was bogus from the beginning.
 
Kinda makes me feel like I've hit the big leagues to be scammed along with some of the big names in this thread!! Woohoo!

:)

SDS
 
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