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Jun 11, 2005 20:49:56 GMT
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Jun 11, 2005 20:51:45 GMT
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Whatever it was t'ain't there no more ?
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Jun 11, 2005 20:51:53 GMT
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Its come up as invalid. So how did he do it?
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BS Nymph Singer Chamois Coupe Series 3 Landy
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Jun 11, 2005 21:00:59 GMT
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Now thats a bit sinister. I suspect Ebay's put a hold on it. Strange, as it had another 9 days to run.
The American guy was asking for donations of $5 to help him through college. He claimed that he had no financial help from the government or his folks. It could well be the case.....
I'd like to try the same tactic, except plead for money for the occasional beer, parts for the car and casual ebay purchases.
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Jun 11, 2005 21:22:40 GMT
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Sounds like a variation of a classic scam to me. Haven't you ever seen the chain letters and email scams saying similar things before? I've heard of ones almost exactly like that, people saying stuff like "All you need to do is send me $5.00, then pass this message on to 10 of your friends, and soon I'll have enough to get to college!" or "Soon I'll be able to afford my operation" or similar. Now maybe I am just overly cynical, but so many of these chain letters that are supposedly going to get a poor guy from the ghettoes in to a university, or are going to help a dying child get a transplant, have been proven without a shadow of a doubt to have been fake, and I'm sure you've all heard of the Nigerian scammers who give similar heart-wrenching tales and want you to give them money to aid this or that unfortunate person (that's the more creative scammers, some of them just want money but have no imagination, so they just try to steal your car instead! ) who've been proven without a shadow of a doubt to be bloody scammers, so I'm not inclined to believe that the only way this guy can raise funds to get to college is by a dubious ebay ad that reeks of a money making scheme. Go on www.snopes.com and go onto a few of the scams they have listed, and you'll find loads of sincere and desparate pleas for help that have turned out to be scams. If this guy ever turns out to be totally genuine guy who doesn't have any other way to get to college, then I'll apologise from the bottom of my heart to him and try to be more trusting in future, and maybe I should be a more trusting individual, but I'm so used to encountering greedy, money-grubbing, unscrupulous b*stards pretending to be totally above board that I have trouble trusting stuff like this.
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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