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I have received two very odd emails lately from people supposedly looking for a trading assistant to sell high priced items. It feels like a scam to me and wanted to know if anyone has any ideas. Here's the text of one of them:
Hello, I am looking for eBay sellers who would like to be involved in selling the following: · 17,000 - 1940?s to mid ?70?s NOS auto parts. Value $1,200,000.00 · 3,500 ? car clocks from 1900 to 1975. Value $350,000.00 · 12,000 pounds of Imported Austrian coffee beans in 1 lb. Gift bags. Retail value $96,000.00 · 10,000 pounds of Imported Austrian Fruit Spread in 10 oz. Collectable Jars, raspberry, strawberry, blackberry and apricot. Retail Value $$50,000.00 · Entire contents of an ACE hardware store. Retail Value $15,000.00 · New African Imported Furniture. Retail Value $20,000.00 · Imported African artifacts, some 125 years old and hundreds of reproductions of same, Hundreds of hand made African pottery. Retail Value $25,000.00 We will receive much more every month as time runs out for the owners. Items come from our clients in the Import Customs Industry. They have contracted with us to liquidate these container loads for them to recover Bonded Storage Costs owed them. These are unclaimed Imported Items that the owners could not pay the fees and storage or went out of business before it reached America. If you consider yourself an above average eBay seller, we need you.
and the other...
Hello. How are you? I am looking for a trading assistant who charges 10% or less in commission fees for selling items for other people. I have over 20,000 baseball cards for sale! If you can help me sell these cards in one lot, I can give you 10% in commission fees. I would be like to be mailed a check for the other 90% fees. My telephone number is: (863)687-0502. If you want to sell my baseball cards, they are valued at $60,000 and I am sure they will sell on ebay for more than $5000 ($500 in commission for you).
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Where are you located?
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are you signed up for the assisstant program. Skip that question, I checked out your website addrerss in your sig line.
Write them back and ask more questions.....the first one intrigues me, I would investigate it further.......looks like a dropshipper hustling assistants to me.
the second one I would delete.
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I have gotten a bunch of these and I just delete them. Not sure how they got my email.
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Commentary... I am in Alpharetta GA
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Gabs... could be a drop shipper. I was thinking more along the lines of the Nigerian Scam (Advance Fee Scam). You know, my rich uncle died and left me $42 million and I want you to have part of it!
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Originally Posted by jluftman
Commentary... I am in Alpharetta GA
I think the baseball cards is some form of scam. I have seen one of those before and it was not located near you. One would think someone looking for a trading assistant would have try and select someone nearby. Sounds too close in description for comfort. Too much of a coincindence. I wonder if it is a scam how it works. Wonder if goods are stolen or some form of money laundering.
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I wonder if it is a scam how it works.
yep, that is why I would ask more questions, you know, nosey nelly here.