I'm trying to sell my PC (not here), and have been contacted about 10 times in the last 2 weeks with Nigerian dudes posing as anything from Engineering Students to Models in South Africa. They offer to pay with a cheque in value higher than what the PC is worth, and then I have to cash it and forward whatever remains to them.
Example: I want to sell my PC for 400GBP. They contact me saying they have a client in London who owes them 3500GBP. He gets his client to make the cheque payable to me, I cash it, deduct the price of the PC plus shipping, and then forward the remaining 3000GBP of the money via Western Union.
OBVIOUSLY I'm not THAT stupid, but I did play along with one of them, to the point where they actually sent me the cheque. It looks real enough, so I found the contact details of the company the cheque belongs to, phoned them, and they told me it was counterfeit. So I didn't cash it, and sent him a really snotty e-mail back, language used of which no mention can be made on this forum.
However, this idiot actually sent me an e-mail yesterday, trying the same thing again, almost like he lost track of who he's tried to scam. So again I sent him a foul-mouthed reply. And yet I feel like that is not enough. So my question is this:
Do any of you know of a place where I can go to register his e-mail address for ****loads of SPAM and such?
Has anybody else here had to deal with something like this?
*EDIT* Mods, there is something wrong with the censor, where ther are stars in this post, I had a bad word, and it actually showed on screen, without the stars. I manually inserted the stars.
Example: I want to sell my PC for 400GBP. They contact me saying they have a client in London who owes them 3500GBP. He gets his client to make the cheque payable to me, I cash it, deduct the price of the PC plus shipping, and then forward the remaining 3000GBP of the money via Western Union.
OBVIOUSLY I'm not THAT stupid, but I did play along with one of them, to the point where they actually sent me the cheque. It looks real enough, so I found the contact details of the company the cheque belongs to, phoned them, and they told me it was counterfeit. So I didn't cash it, and sent him a really snotty e-mail back, language used of which no mention can be made on this forum.
However, this idiot actually sent me an e-mail yesterday, trying the same thing again, almost like he lost track of who he's tried to scam. So again I sent him a foul-mouthed reply. And yet I feel like that is not enough. So my question is this:
Do any of you know of a place where I can go to register his e-mail address for ****loads of SPAM and such?
Has anybody else here had to deal with something like this?
*EDIT* Mods, there is something wrong with the censor, where ther are stars in this post, I had a bad word, and it actually showed on screen, without the stars. I manually inserted the stars.
