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CREEPY answer to sales ad...UPDATE--the villain emerges!!!

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  • #81
    If you know how to ping their e mails, it can get you more info. If you don't know how to fo this, find a computer nerd.
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      #82
      no idea how to do that or even what it is!

      where is that dumb blonde smiley when you need one

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      • #83
        nhwr, that's a great idea!

        flsh, check your PTs.

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        • #84
          Just caught up on my reading! This is one of the most bizarre things I have ever heard of, and believe me, I've had some hum-dingers for responses to MY sale ads.

          I have gotten tons and tons of the typical "scam" ads where they say, I am buying this horse. But they are all pretty basic, I never get more than one email asking for my asking price and location of the horse. Often they confuse the horse's sex or name or generically refer to "this horse" without any other info. It's all scams and once you've gotten a few, you recognize and delete. But THIS????? THIS is creepy, FLSH! THIS is definitely something that warrants a police report. I doubt anything will come of it, but you never know and you definitely have to act concerned and take immediate action.

          More than likely it's a kid screwing around, either way they need to be reported and the police need to take whatever action they can to help curtail this type of behavior. Half the time I wish there were more regulation on lookey-loos but there isn't much to be done about THAT little problem!

          Now which horse is this? Your filly? By the way, for $1,000, my dear *I* would be coming to see you with a trailer ready to load up! LOL

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            #85
            no silly---Luna is not for sale at ANY price

            This is the hanoverian mare at the barn that I am trying to help the owners sell. Sheesh for $1000 I would have bought her myself! Yeah all this trouble for a horse that isn't even mine

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            • #86
              Geez, people stink. I'm sorry you are being bugged like this, and hopefully it'll peter out.

              Um, the real reason I'm writing is to admit that *every* time I see your screen name, flsh, I think- 'fishgordon', what the...oh, yes, flshgordon.

              I'm embarrassed for myself, so I thought if I outed my inability to distinguish L's from I's that I'd stop being surprised that someone would call herself fishgordon. Although, it's actually sort of cool. Sounds like some sort of medieval monster thingy.

              So, right- I'm following your saga with baited breath, and if the owners of said mare *do* want to sell her for 1000 bills, *I'll* be out there with a trailer (not my husband, who is scared of horses)!

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              You can take a line and say it isn't straight- but that won't change its shape. Jets to Brazil

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                #87
                foursocks--you aren't the first person to make that mistake. I think both my secret santas thought FISH too

                it's actually a shortened FLASHgordon....which was a college nickname. Back in the day when aol first started you could only use a certain number or characters so I had to leave out a letter and it stuck. plus, I'm too lazy to try remembering any other ids

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                • #88
                  Completely off topic, but when I see flshgordon, I think flesh gordon....whcih I think was a porno several years ago...just gives me a chuckle

                  Dragons is so stupid!
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                  • #89
                    Just a note of another type of scam I read about today in the paper-happened near D.C.

                    A businesss was contacted, $1,132 worth of stuff ordered. Cashiers check sent to pay for the stuff was for $71,132. Business called customer-obviously their accounting folks must have inadvertanly added in the extra digit. The buyer had the selling company wire the "overpay" to their overseas bank. A week or so later the seller was notified the cashiers check was counterfeit, so the funds never existed. The seller had lost $1,132 worth of stock and then $70K in the cash transfer.

                    It's hard to keep up the devious minds!
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                    • #90
                      Just bumping this back to the first page; waiting for crazy update.

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                        #91
                        well---keeping things on the hush hush for now, but I think one of the fabulous posters here might have located the person for me using their investigative skills!!!

                        After telling them I had contacted the police, I have not heard back from the email stalker, but I'm going to pursue it when I get some free time at work. I'll post an update when I have one!

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                        • #92
                          First of all these scam stories are more entertaining than anything on TV right now. I am most sorry that it is at the expense of our family here on the BB.

                          Second. I have, all this time, seen FISH gordon too.

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                            #93
                            hmmmm wonder if I should see if COTH will let me add an *A* in my name

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                            • #94
                              I don't know, I kind of like Fishgordon, it's awfully unique

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                              • #95
                                <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by scotchie:
                                Just a note of another type of scam I read about today in the paper-happened near D.C.

                                A businesss was contacted, $1,132 worth of stuff ordered. Cashiers check sent to pay for the stuff was for $71,132. Business called customer-obviously their accounting folks must have inadvertanly added in the extra digit. The buyer had the selling company wire the "overpay" to their overseas bank. A week or so later the seller was notified the cashiers check was counterfeit, so the funds never existed. The seller had lost $1,132 worth of stock and then $70K in the cash transfer.

                                It's hard to keep up the devious minds!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                That actually sounds like a variation of one of the Nigerian scams. The one I heard about was involving a horse sale, but with the same conditions (cashier's check with a huge overpayment with the seller sending the overpayment elsewhere). Sorry, but anyone who falls for something like that is either greedy or stupid or both. I mean, really, what sort of reputable business is going to send that sort of "cash" out of their reach? Common sense is still in short supply, I guess............
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                                • #96
                                  Way to go, flsh! I can't wait for the update on this one!
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                                  • #97
                                    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by flshgordon:
                                    hmmmm wonder if I should see if COTH will let me add an *A* in my name <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Just for the record, I have always read your name as "flash gordon." I have probably seen the movie and listened to the song too many times!

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                                    • #98
                                      &lt;Flash&gt; Aaaah aaaaah
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                                      • #99
                                        I still have the soundtrack. On an LP!. I had the biggest crush on the blond guy who played Flash.

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                                        • #100
                                          Yeah, HelloAgain!!!!

                                          Oh man, I can still hear Ming - "They're called tears. It's a sign of their weakness."

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