|
Post by Chesapeake on Jun 22, 2011 14:32:26 GMT -5
Order Inquiry From: William Shackler <sptccrls@gmail.com> sptccrls@gmail.com To: sptccrls <sptccrls@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 7:04 am
-- Hello,
I am interested in purchasing some of your products, I will like to know if you can ship directly to Greece, I also want you to know my mode of payment for this order is Via Credit Card or Cashier Check. Get back to me if you can Ship to that destination and also if you accept the payment type indicated. Kindly reply this email with the price list of your products... I await your quick response.
William Shackler
Wills Place 53 Voulgaroktonou Str. 114 73 Athens. Greece
|
|
|
Post by billhammond on Jun 22, 2011 14:44:58 GMT -5
Order Inquiry From: William Shackler <sptccrls@gmail.com> sptccrls@gmail.com To: sptccrls <sptccrls@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 7:04 am -- Hello, I am interested in purchasing some of your products, I will like to know if you can ship directly to Greece, I also want you to know my mode of payment for this order is Via Credit Card or Cashier Check. Get back to me if you can Ship to that destination and also if you accept the payment type indicated. Kindly reply this email with the price list of your products... I await your quick response. William Shackler Wills Place 53 Voulgaroktonou Str. 114 73 Athens. Greece I'm sure it will be fine. William Shackler is a very wealthy and famous actor who has appeared in innumerable "Star Tramp" and "Boston Bugle" episodes.
|
|
|
Post by Doug on Jun 22, 2011 14:56:10 GMT -5
Send him a price list of your products.
Bill Hammond $25,000,000 Doug Heard $18,000,000 (can't spell worth a shit) etc. You'll take the Cashier Check and ship after it is cleared. All shipping is First Class or chartered private jet. Shipping not included in the price.
|
|
|
Post by AlanC on Jun 22, 2011 15:19:17 GMT -5
I get those all the time wanting prices for GPS equipment. I know it's a scam but I don't know the specific hook. How are they trying to extract money from me? I have been getting them for seems like a year or more. Early on, I emailed back to ask what led them to believe I was a retailer of high end GPS equipment but they never answered me.
|
|
|
Post by Russell Letson on Jun 22, 2011 15:35:10 GMT -5
One variation is that you get a counterfeit cashier's check that only bounces after the goods are shipped. Another, rather more obviously scammy one is the "I'll send you a certified check for more than the invoice and you'll send me the difference via Western Union" gag. You send the difference and then the fake check bounces, leaving you on the hook.
|
|
|
Post by millring on Jun 22, 2011 15:39:12 GMT -5
I get those all the time wanting prices for GPS equipment. I know it's a scam but I don't know the specific hook. They just want to get to know you. They are lonely and you seem friendly.
|
|
|
Post by Russell Letson on Jun 22, 2011 15:49:51 GMT -5
So GPS means "Get Personal Soon"?
|
|
philen
Certified Regular
Posts: 482
|
Post by philen on Jun 22, 2011 15:51:07 GMT -5
Since I have more time on my hands, I try to settle into a conversation about fishing or eating earthworms or some other interesting subject with telemarketers when they call. I try to incorporate my best mental ward accent when doing so. I have found this approach works a lot better than asking to be removed from the call list.
|
|
|
Post by millring on Jun 22, 2011 15:53:03 GMT -5
So GPS means "Get Personal Soon"? No, actually GPS means Getting Personal With Alan. They just have a little trouble with the concept of acronyms. In their defense, who doesn't?
|
|
|
Post by AlanC on Jun 22, 2011 15:54:01 GMT -5
You like nightcrawlers or redworms?
|
|
|
Post by millring on Jun 22, 2011 16:02:08 GMT -5
Hey, I recently downloaded that mp3...
|
|
|
Post by RickW on Jun 22, 2011 16:03:11 GMT -5
Fellow I work with, who is very PC literate, got a call at home from a telemarketer with an accent telling him that their highly sophisticated tracking software had detected a virus on my friends computer. For a reasonable fee they could fix it. My friend had a grand time, going into idiot mode, asking how did they know the virus was there, how could it have got there, how would they fix it, over and over, for about 20 minutes, until the caller swore at him and hung up.
Takes a bit of time sometimes, but he had fun.
|
|
|
Post by dradtke on Jun 22, 2011 16:46:49 GMT -5
When the kids were little and just learning how to jabber, I would hand the telemarketers off to them. Not sure how long it took for them to hang up, because the kids kept talking into the phone even afterward.
|
|
|
Post by billhammond on Jun 22, 2011 16:58:54 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Doug on Jun 22, 2011 17:01:23 GMT -5
Since I have more time on my hands, I try to settle into a conversation about fishing or eating earthworms or some other interesting subject with telemarketers when they call. I try to incorporate my best mental ward accent when doing so. I have found this approach works a lot better than asking to be removed from the call list. I still like my father's system and still use it. When they call or e-mail I ask for a name and billing address. I'm an consultant and get $200 an hour to talk to people. That works wonders.
|
|
|
Post by brucemacneill on Jun 22, 2011 17:06:04 GMT -5
You're cheap. I charge $250/hr.
|
|
|
Post by Doug on Jun 22, 2011 17:19:08 GMT -5
You're cheap. I charge $250/hr. .. Ok I'm raising my rates, don't forget that 1 hr is the min.
|
|
|
Post by brucemacneill on Jun 22, 2011 18:23:35 GMT -5
You're cheap. I charge $250/hr. .. Ok I'm raising my rates, don't forget that 1 hr is the min. My company used to rent me out for $250/hr, 4 hour minimum or $1600/day ( and they usually forgot to say 8 hour day) or $5000/wk (which the clients took as 5x24 but I didn't) all plus expenses of course. That was 10 years ago, last time I was billable. I think we should raise our rates for inflation by now. Of course, now that I'm retired, I really only work on computers for Scotch.
|
|
|
Post by paulschlimm on Jun 23, 2011 5:58:06 GMT -5
So Alan, it's fair to say that, while you know they are asking for GPSs, you have no idea where they're going with it?
|
|
|
Post by AlanC on Jun 23, 2011 8:23:32 GMT -5
I guess my another question besides the specific hook to extract money would be how did they associate me with GPS equipment? I use survey grade GPS units every day but I don't sell them. They tailored their scam to something I use and not to left handed widgets which I don't. They must have some kind of fishing (or phishing) routine to pitch somewhat towards the ballpark hoping for a strike.
|
|