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I received an email just like this about a rototiller I was selling on craigslist. I had a bad feeling but had already given the information to this person. Then today, October 18 I received a check in the mail in the amount of $1600 and immediately called the bank that was suppose to have issued it. I found out that the phone number of the bank was wrong, so I looked up that bank and found their number.  I was advised to fax a copy of the check to the bank. I did. I also found the persons name who was on the check through yellow pages.com and contacted them. Surprise, surprise, it was not the first call they had gotten today and they were able to get the account canceled before losing any money. I then got a call from this person thanking me for being so honest and for having the state of mind to verify the check and contacting them. The name on the email was john blechinger <[email protected]> . The phone number was different and when I checked it online , it came back as a Houston, TX number.

lizzyjacobs strikes again!  

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Hello

Thanks  for your reply and the price is accepted so i will like you to send me this information below today,please considered it sold to me. I  will make arrangement to pick it up through my shipping agent and I also would like it you can send me more pictures of the good if you still have more with you. I will be making the payment for the goods by Money Order. Your FULL NAME:,Your FULL ADDRESS:,LAST ASKING PRICE,:PHONE NUMBER,ZIP:CODE To enable me to instruct my secetary to issue and send the MONEY ORDER to you as soon as possible I am a contractor and I travel everytime, but presently I am in Iowa, I will back soon. NOTE -the MONEY ORDER am sending to you will cover the cost of goods and shipment, so that when you get the Money Order and it clears into your account you will send the remaining money to my shipping agent for them to go ahead with the necessary shipping arrangements. They will come around to your house to pick the package up after you send the remaining fund to the shipping agent. That's all let me I look forward to hearing from you asap, Don't worry about the shipment the shipment will handled by my shipping agent . I am waiting for your swift response. Thanks for your co-operation.
Regards

lizzyjacobs
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I was selling wedding flowers on KSL in UT. I received this e-mail from "Lizzy Jacobs" at [email protected] Glad I researched it.


Hello

Thanks  for your reply and the price is accepted so i will like you to send me this information below today,please considered it sold to me. I  will make arrangement to pick it up through my shipping agent and I also would like it you can send me more pictures of the good if you still have more with you. I will be making the payment for the goods by Money Order. Your FULL NAME:,Your FULL ADDRESS:,LAST ASKING PRICE,:PHONE NUMBER,ZIP:CODE To enable me to instruct my secetary to issue and send the MONEY ORDER to you as soon as possible I am a contractor and I travel everytime, but presently I am in Iowa, I will back soon. NOTE -the MONEY ORDER am sending to you will cover the cost of goods and shipment, so that when you get the Money Order and it clears into your account you will send the remaining money to my shipping agent for them to go ahead with the necessary shipping arrangements. They will come around to your house to pick the package up after you send the remaining fund to the shipping agent. That's all let me I look forward to hearing from you asap, Don't worry about the shipment the shipment will handled by my shipping agent . I am waiting for your swift response. Thanks for your co-operation.
Regards

lizzyjacobs

I received an email identical to all of yours from a guy named Billy Powell who wanted to buy the wedding dress I was selling for $500..   I received two money orders for $950.00 each which was overnited to me for the dress. I thought that was really strange .. but he mentioned that he wanted me to take my $500 and give the difference to the picker who would be picking up the dress for his daughter. These money orders did not look fake at all.. I shouldve went to the post office to make sure they were real but I deposited them into my bank account instead. Unfortunately, it took my bank a month to verify they were in fact fraudulent. However, during this time I was emailing him and he insisted that they were 100% real and actually concerned about what was going on with the money orders since he hadnt heard from me for a week or so...  This happened in July 2010 and now I just received another email similiar to the first one I received.. however the guys name is now bill fernandez using a similiar email... after all of the info that ive read, it sounds like he has a bunch of blank us postal money orders that he is trying to get cashed..... he says that he is interested in buying your item then sends you a money order for more than the item that you are selling... if you cash them, and if by chance they clear you have your money and he gets the difference by you giving the remaining money to the person who picks up the item... so in otherwords basically using you to cash his money orders in hopes that they go through...   i dont think he cares what the item is that he is purchasing, he cares more about the additional $1500 he could make by you cashing the money orders for him..

Oh what a clever booger this guy is!  Thank God I decided to Google his name, something just didn't seem right, always gotta go with your gut! Thanks to this blog and one other I quickly found out this was a scam! I mean who buys a wedding dress without seeing it in person anyway?! After reading this, I replied to him, here is what I wrote:



Nice try, you almost got me.  Almost.  There's this little thing called Google and you got caught.  Your despicable, thank God I believe in Karma because you will get yours in the end.  I am sending these links to the proper authorities.



God Bless "Bill Fernandez"

--- On Wed, 10/27/10, BILL fernandez <[email protected]> wrote:



From: BILL fernandez <[email protected]>
Subject: GORGEOUS WEDDING GOWN MUST BUY!!!
To:
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 11:09 AM




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Greetings,

I appreciate your response to my initial email. I'm very sorry for the late response due to our trip down here to Rhode Island. I just concluded with my daughter on buying the wedding gown. The link of your ads had been viewed by her and she's very okay with the details of the wedding dress.   I'm interested in buying this gorgeous wedding dress for her wedding ceremony coming up in a couple of weeks and we are in a top gear of preparations, Which means buying a wedding dress, is very important to her. Sending more picture will be awesome. Please, I will appreciate if  reduction of 5% can be taken off from the original price of the wedding dress. What is your final price of the wedding dress?

I would have been happy to pick up the wedding dress and pay (cash) as a person but time hasn’t permit us because we booked next day flight down to Rhode Island. And as a single parent I do not have a helping hand. because of the contract awarded to me which has made us relocate down to Rhode island. My daughter has however made arrangements with a carrier who would come for the pickup of the wedding dress over at any location of yours after payments have been duly made.  I would had love you to send the dress via a courier service but my daughter insisted and gave  instruction that she wanted her carrier (Ms. Yvette Ann Sims) to come for the pickup.  So that shipment and handling can be taking care of very carefully with dry cleaning.

To get this clear to you, Payment of the wedding dress will be made out to you before Ms Yvette Ann Sims come over to pick up the wedding dress. I'm very new to buying stuff on here and I hope you can be trusted to make available the dress after payment has been made out to you. My daughter works with United State Postal Services and we will be glad to pay with a United state certified Postal Money Order. I'll appreciate it if you consider it sold to us via this means.

After payment clear your bank. Ms Yvette Ann Sims will  show up at your location in picking up the dress. Excess funds for the shipment and handling will be included on the payment and sent to picker for her services. I'll email her contact to you as soon as you received the payment via FedEx/UPS. How should your name appear on the Money order and what full home address should I mail it to? With your valid phone number. Kindly consider it sold. God bless

Bill Fernandez