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Dear Scammer from Nigeria

By
Real Estate Agent with Jameson Sotheby's International Realty

Dear Mr. or Mrs. Scammer


I'm sure I owe you some apologies:

  • I'm sorry for replying that I am happy to engage in a bizarre business deal with you knowing full well it isn’t real.
  • I'm sorry you had to print a horrible fake check.
  • I'm sorry you paid $4.90 UPS’ing it to me overnight.
  • I'm sorry for taking a few days to get back to you after I got the check just to ask you for your phone number which you can’t give me. I knew that and still I emailed you for the phone number.
  • I'm sorry that I lied to you and said I couldn't find a western union office near me, making you look them up, emailing me a list and me telling you those two liquor stores are closed.
  • I'm sorry that I lied to you about getting pissed-off at the western union office because they wanted $1.75 to cut a check and that I said that’s robbery and left in a huff. I actually never went there in the first place. Sorry for wasting your time that day.
  • I'm sorry I lied the following day after you threatened to call the FBI and local police on me because I cashed your check and would not pay you. I knew you wouldn't, but I wrote you an email begging you not to call the police and that I would pay you tomorrow after I cashed the check.
  • I’m sorry that I lied the next day and said the western union office girl was rude to me so I left in anger, again delaying your money by another day.
  • I'm sorry I lied about sending the money to western union in your name vs the shipper so you could not pick it up. I realize this cost you a day or so.
  • I am really sorry that I lied and said that the money order was at your western union, but off by 1 zip code making you drive 30 minutes to find out I am a liar.
  • Your last email to me seemed justified. Obviously from the language you used, you were pissed. The fact that as you "YELLED” your grasp of the English language seemed to fade away like my Mom’s when she is livid showed me what a bad person I am.  Truly bad.  Mea Culpa.
  • Your phone call from Africa? was upsetting because as you were trying to explain to me how to go down to western union and pay the $1.75 and you would pick up the fee, I realized how frustrated you were getting. I also lied about being hard of hearing and asking you to repeat yourself, over and over. Sorry.

All in all, I'm sorry for sucking up your bandwidth. I realize that my actions probably sucked up 6-10 hours of your time and kept you from fleecing some truly gullible person in America.


Please forgive me. Go ahead and send me another forged check and I will send you my cash to your shipper. Please try me again. Even though I lied you to about 15 times I won’t do it again.  You can trust me this time.


Your friendly computer person.

Posted by

 ALAN MAY, Realtor®   
Specializing in Evanston Real Estate and North Shore Real Estate

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty, 2934 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Office: 847.869.7300      Cell: 847.924.3313      Email: Almay@aol.com

Evanston Real Estate & North Shore Real Estate
Licensed in Illinois

   

Comments(34)

JL Boney, III
Coldwell Banker - Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC Real Estate

I always reply back to these guys that I need their account number for my attorney to verify their info before moving forward with our deal. I never hear from them again.

Feb 08, 2009 02:53 PM
TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.
Complete Home Inspections, Inc. - Brentwood, TN
Home Inspectons - Nashville, TN area - 615.661.029

Richard, I get so pissed at these scammers. I, like you, really take a sadistic pleasure with playing with their heads. You know the drill, "The Devil made me do it"....

Feb 08, 2009 07:38 PM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

JL, depending on my mood, sometimes I play with the telemarketers too.

Michael, which "Richard" are you addressing?

Feb 08, 2009 11:33 PM
Caren Wallace
Premier Property Group LLC - Tualatin, OR
Portland Caren Real Estate

Alan, I am so glad you got the best of one of these scammers. They deserve it!! You are a good baaaaaaaad boy!

Feb 08, 2009 11:37 PM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Caren... I am a baaad, baaad, boy.

Feb 09, 2009 12:01 AM
Craig Rutman
Helping people in transition - Cary, NC
Raleigh, Cary, Apex area Realtor

Dear Alan,

I was born a poor parent-less child in the third world city of Blagojevich, Illinois. My parents were killed in a Ponzi scam and left me a sizable dowry.

I need someone like you to deposit in your bank account this money before my corrupt government takes it all.

Please send me your account number ASAP.

For your time, I will pray for your slavation!!!

Your poor parent-less third world friend,

Craig

 

 

Feb 09, 2009 02:41 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Craig - dial "1" ask for Alan.  If a woman answers, hang up!

Feb 09, 2009 03:01 AM
LYDIA LAMOREUX
ZipRealty - Volente, TX

OMG. Funny posting and funny comments.

Feb 09, 2009 03:30 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Lydia, sometimes the comments can quickly outdistance the post.  Thanks for the comment.

Feb 09, 2009 04:06 AM
Leslie Prest
Leslie Prest, Prest Realty, Sales and Rentals in Payson, AZ - Payson, AZ
Owner, Assoc. Broker, Prest Realty, Payson,

If you really did those things you have WAY too much time on your hands.

Feb 09, 2009 05:08 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Leslie, sometimes we make time for those things that are important to us.... just like blogging.

Feb 09, 2009 05:13 AM
Bill Gassett
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Hopkinton, MA
Metrowest Massachusetts Real Estate

I love it Alan I am grinning ear to ear:)

Feb 09, 2009 05:35 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Bill, I wondered what that "glare" was.

Feb 09, 2009 05:43 AM
Bruce Brockmeier
Internet Marketing Consultant to REALTORS® - Yorba Linda, CA
Coached By Crouch

Hey Alan,

Do you remember that David Horowitz show called Fight Back!?

Wouldn't it be fun if a few thousand ActiveRainers started tweaking the scammers.  :)

Feb 09, 2009 01:24 PM
Tony Orefice
NorthGroup Real Estate/www.TonyORealtor.com - Concord, NC
Realtor- Cabarrus County, NC

I must have received 5 of those emails in the last 2 weeks. I must admit, the way you handled it is alot funnier than mine...I tell them to go @$%* themselves!  ; )

Feb 09, 2009 02:57 PM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Bruce, I do, and it would.

Tony, sometimes I too tell them to perform a bodily function upon themselves that's impossible to do.

Feb 09, 2009 10:59 PM
Russel Ray, San Diego Business & Marketing Consultant & Photographer
Russel Ray - San Diego State University, CA

Here in California you would probably be up for having your real estate license terminated for telling all those lies. Realtors here have to have "honesty and integrity." LOL

Feb 10, 2009 07:51 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

ahh, Russel... but I wasn't responding as a Realtor®.  I was responding as a potential "mark™".  And to be a "mark™", honesty and integity can be a liability.

Feb 10, 2009 09:09 AM
Anonymous
mhf

Congrats your post made it to best of craigslist

Feb 28, 2009 12:46 AM
#33
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Be still my foolish heart.

Feb 28, 2009 01:14 AM