Posted on 10/04/2007 5:59:50 AM PDT by radar101
funny how they always tell you how smart you’d be if you did what they say. and folks will go crazy twisting logic to try to go along thinking that they’ll beat the scheme.
it’s usually the people who think they’re smart who get taken. the stupid folks simply throw the propoosal away.
Have you noticed that all the nigerian type scams that come in the email also stress that you should “keep quiet about the transaction” until you have the millions of dollars you don’t deserve in your account which, of course, will never happen? They are trying to get people who aren’t too bright to not tell someone who might be and who will turn them in.
Another:
Don't ever give me a check for more than you owe me. If you can't manage your check preparation competently, you're probably a crook.
Just saying.
Appy, long time, I was going to write the samething, I was renting a condo at WVU. and recieved 2 checks for $4500 each, I asked the sender if they thought I was stupid.
Sound advice.
If it were me, I would tell them that I would not accept a check at all, or never more than the amount, or any check accepted would require a 30 day waiting period.
The whole idea sounds fishy....why would anyone want to write a check to me for more than the amount they owed me? Do I have a trusting face?
Hell, I would not trust me.
So she had an apartment for rent that required four thousand up front. When someone sent her a check for twenty five thousand asking for the remainder to be returned, she didn’t think anything was fishy?
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