Mind ya, I sold the Fiero to markviiisvt4 in April.

Hello selleer,

My name is charles dicken, and i am inrested in purcahsing your fine 1987 PONTIAC FIERO GT. I saw you were asking $1500. Will you accept a check for the amount of $4500 US AMERICAN DOLLARS? The remainming moneys must be forwarded to my acoount in botswana. Thanks you and hope to talk again to discus details. REGARD.

Pretty sad attempt!

I've seen that many times before. I guess they just keep trying and trying.

Yeah it'* pretty sad when they keep trying and trying and trying, and the funny thing is each one is exactly the same, only the email and names are different!

I've gotten one that used the name Charels Dicken, perhaps you TOO were contacted by the king of some african country that needs you to take his LOFTY inheritance!

I've seen various versions of that one, plus the nigerian inheritance one. I was also contacted when I posted my resume on an employment website. This guy wanted a "high caliber executive" like myself to handle six-figure money transfers here in the US for a 20% cut per transfer. ...uh....no...

My FIL recently received an email telling him that he won a random email lottery (that the email acknowledged he never entered) for 1 million British Pounds.....etc, etc...

The thing is, there must be a certain percentage of bites on these scams, however small the percentage, that makes it worthwhile to continue them. Otherwise, they would go away. Simple economics.

Sad...sad...