Re: [Alpacasite] Money Scam

Hay Darice,

This "scam" has been traveling around for years...from horses, to cars, to anything! that is posted for sale in the internet.

But thank you for bring it back up, for all those out there who are fairly new to "cyber-space" and all the scam artists out there.

take care

Holly Zech
Pleasant Grove CA

----- Original Message -----
From: ragnarsalpacas
To: Alpacasite@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 10:30 PM
Subject: [Alpacasite] Money Scam

Hi All,
I just saw a posting on alpaca classified that peaked my interest- A
person wants to sell an alpaca for a specified amount- they get an e-
mail from someone that is offering to buy the animal with a cashiers
check or money order. But the "paper" is for more than what the
asking price is. In this case the asking price is 4500.00 and the
buyer is sending 6500.00 in cashiers check or money orders. Offering
the seller an additional 100.00 for their "trouble" of cashing
the "paper" and sending the extra back to the potential buyer. The
buyer is most likely based in Africa and the extra monies are
transfer back to that person through various other "contacts". The
buy is now home free with at least 200.00 dollars free and clear the
the seller is in the pokie (or close to it) on fraud charges.
My husband is a fraud Detective and he just told me about this same
thing happening here in Colorado Springs. So just a word of caution-
If it sounds to good to be true IT IS!!

Darice Bjorkvist
Purple Sage Alpaca Ranch
Ellicott CO

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