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Sorry if this is inappropriate for this forum, but I'd heard about a couple of guys getting burned by scams like this, so I thought I'd throw a heads-up to everyone. Please feel free to pull a Moverator, if this needs to be somewhere else.
Today, I received an email from one Daniel Kuncoro, the contents of which read as follows:
Dear,
Can i to buy Damascus knives and hunting knives at your shop, with my credit card?
I'm from Singapore.
I need that knives for my collection.
I'm waiting your respond.
Thank you.
Now, while I like to think that I'm a personable fellow, I hardly think that I'm loose enough to be addressed simply as "Dear," by just everyone!! I'm no two-bit whore! I'm a FOUR-BIT whore!!
Anyway, this struck me as bogus for a number of reasons:
1) I don't have a shop, per se. For those of you who've been out to my (hopelessly out-of-date) website, you've probably noticed, I don't even HAVE anything on my "For Sale" page.
2) The guy's in Singapore, and there seems to be a real rash of scams of this type orignating in that area, just now. Bet that's pissing off a whole lot of legimate Singapore knifeknuts!
3) This was a Yahoo email account.
4) The whole thing struck me as either an auto-gen'd message, or a cut-n-paste mass mailing.
So, I'm letting it die in my inbox, a slow, withering death. I'm afraid to respond, for fear of encouraging more like this. If you really ARE interested, Daniel, and you're not a scammer, please feel free to register a free logon here, and either post a message, or reference a thread or something verifiable. I won't take a credit card from Singapore (heck, I can't take credit cards from across the street, yet!), but I'm sure we can work something out for a money order or something.
Otherwise, HEADS!!!!!!

Today, I received an email from one Daniel Kuncoro, the contents of which read as follows:
Dear,
Can i to buy Damascus knives and hunting knives at your shop, with my credit card?
I'm from Singapore.
I need that knives for my collection.
I'm waiting your respond.
Thank you.
Now, while I like to think that I'm a personable fellow, I hardly think that I'm loose enough to be addressed simply as "Dear," by just everyone!! I'm no two-bit whore! I'm a FOUR-BIT whore!!


1) I don't have a shop, per se. For those of you who've been out to my (hopelessly out-of-date) website, you've probably noticed, I don't even HAVE anything on my "For Sale" page.
2) The guy's in Singapore, and there seems to be a real rash of scams of this type orignating in that area, just now. Bet that's pissing off a whole lot of legimate Singapore knifeknuts!
3) This was a Yahoo email account.
4) The whole thing struck me as either an auto-gen'd message, or a cut-n-paste mass mailing.
So, I'm letting it die in my inbox, a slow, withering death. I'm afraid to respond, for fear of encouraging more like this. If you really ARE interested, Daniel, and you're not a scammer, please feel free to register a free logon here, and either post a message, or reference a thread or something verifiable. I won't take a credit card from Singapore (heck, I can't take credit cards from across the street, yet!), but I'm sure we can work something out for a money order or something.
Otherwise, HEADS!!!!!!
