Jerry Bass wrote:

The last month I have worked with a man claiming to be from Belgim

with the name of Wesley Brown, AKA, wesley_agric@yahoo.co.uk

He sent a check for $3100 for my Ross Gearbox. It took ten days for

the check to arrive, and he emailed me every day.

I put the check in the bank and was going to Western Union [wire]

funds to a Michael Ogunlowo-Ibukun in Nigeria. The funds did not
come thru and I waited until today to find the $3100 check did
bounce. The [check] money was extracted from my account.  If I had
wired the money to Nigeria I would have been out the $1800.

He talked very broken, almost Iraki, and by phone I could not

understand him much. My good luck, was when my neighbor said this
type of scam was going around.

Be aware of this on airplane parts.

Jerry Bass
540-932 3125
Cell 241-2675

John wrote:

Paul/Jerry and all,
The bid I made on a Mid-West rotary offered on eBay was second best.
Three weeks after I lost out on the engine a "Second Chance" offer
arrived saying that the high bidder had backed out of the deal. It too
was a scam. The address was in London, England and I was to wire the
$8000 via Western Union. It sounded "fishy" and it was!!
Regards,
John Lewis
N501BD

Security is my career. Nigeria, Europe, etc.... anywhere other than the
US, you need to be paranoid. You need to verify from the e-mail headers
where your e-mail server got the message from. ANY address other than a
direct provider can not be verified ( rotaryeng@earthlink.net,
dave@arb.net, etc. can be verified.) user@yahoo.*.* , john.doe@hotmail.*
can not be. They are ripe for fraud... And checks, count on 30 days in
your account... 10 days is not enough time. Western Union is a black hole
- only send money through it if you have no risk of loosing what every you
got for your transfer...
--
Thanks !

-dave
dave _at_ arb.net
http://arb.net

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