[pianotech] Spam Inheritance

[Ken & Pat Gerler]

Yes, at least one a week.
Ken Gerler

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matthew Todd 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 11:00 AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Fw: I am interested in the musical instrument


        Have any of you ever gotten those e-mails from someone claiming to have millions of dollars waiting for you in an unclaimed fund, or from an inheritance?  I get about one a week.  The last one I got said they wanted me to have the 3.2 million because they knew I would use the funds in the name of God to start churches and orphanages.


        TODD PIANO WORKS 
        Matthew Todd, Piano Technician 
        (979) 248-9578
        http://www.toddpianoworks.com


        --- On Fri, 6/12/09, paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> wrote:


          From: paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net>
          Subject: Re: [pianotech] Fw: I am interested in the musical instrument
          To: pianotech at ptg.org
          Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 1:38 PM


          And it's hardly just pianos...  I sold an entertainment center on craigslist a while back. I had one of these convoluted offers from someone purportedly moving from Georgia to Colorado and they wanted to send their moving truck to Minnesota (kinda out of the way) to pick up my EC blah blah blah. (Why not wait 'til ya' get to Colorado?)

          Point being, they target the somewhat higher-priced stuff, but they cook up such extraordinary tales of fantasy that they're really hard to believe, if one just reads the words instead of getting caught up in the idea of making a quick sale.

          Paul Bruesch
          Stillwater, MN


          On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Rob McCall <rob at mccallpiano.com> wrote:

            James,

            This is a huge, and unfortunately, very common scam. Today it's pianos. On eBay, it's computers.  I'm sure each industry has it's own version of this scam.

            They send you a check for more than what they owe you.  You cash it and send the excess back to this "agent".  A day or two later, the cashier's check bounces because it was a forged document.  You're on the hook to your bank for the money you sent back to their "agent".

            Don't touch this unless you like sending large sums of your hard earned cash to scammers.

            Regards,

            Rob McCall
            Murrieta, CA

            On Jun 12, 2009, at 04:36 , Pianoman wrote:


              Hi All,
              Received this form an ad I have for a used piano I have for sale   .  Does this sound like a scam to any of you.
              Curious.
              James
              James Grebe




       
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