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jamiewu32
Joined: 02 Jan 2007
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 Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:02 am Post subject: 3rd day on gumtree HARD Cheque fraud, and ad not deleted. |
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Cheque fraud
http://www.gumtree.com/cgi-bin/report_ad.pl?posting_id=43774095
http://www.gumtree.com/cgi-bin/report_ad.pl?posting_id=43834835
Urgent Part time work to earn a living
Date posted: Saturday 15th August | Ad viewed: 3235 times
Location: london
Do you need a part time job? I am looking for someone who can handle my personal and business errands at his/her spare time, email me with your resume if you are interested
Urgent Part time work availability
Date posted: Sunday 16th August | Ad viewed: 1121 times
Location: london
Seeking an Administrative/ Personal Assistant to handle my personal and business affairs, such as errands, travel arrangements, house hold management, and also some of my personal finance...,email me with your resume if you are interested |
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jennysue19
Joined: 11 Aug 2009
Posts: 18
Location: Havant
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:32 pm Post subject: moderators just wasting time |
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The reason these scam ads stay around as long as they do is because certain moderators are too busy looking for the opportunity to express their ill informed opinions to take notice the FIRST time a complaint is posted.
Thanks for standing up and shouting to be noticed jamiewu32, what a shame the mods didn't act the first time you posted. |
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montyzuma
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:10 am Post subject: |
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Your post show a lack of understanding how gumtree works
Your other posts show other things 
have you tried ebay for your choc? |
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punk rocker
Joined: 10 Jul 2009
Posts: 171
Location: London
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| montyzuma wrote: | Your post show a lack of understanding how gumtree works
Your other posts show other things
have you tried ebay for your choc? |
I don't think.jamiewu's posts demonstrate any lack of understanding.
He's only doing what he believes to be right.
Informing gumtree users that these ads he's posted about are
potentially fraudulent.
I've looked at a few personally and I would say most are fraudulent
as they are either pyramid scams in desguise( work from home jobs)
or scams that involve the use of money transfer services. |
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montyzuma
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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down shep
jamie is a great guy and does some sterling work for gumtree
i wasnt referring to him
most of what jamie posts are not pyramid scams
but fake jobs scams requiring an upfront payment |
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punk rocker
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Location: London
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| montyzuma wrote: | down shep
jamie is a great guy and does some sterling work for gumtree
i wasnt referring to him
most of what jamie posts are not pyramid scams
but fake jobs scams requiring an upfront payment |
I wonder how he finds out these jobs are scams in the first place?  |
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montyzuma
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:38 am Post subject: |
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Afer a while you get to know the format
the people doing these scam rarely have english as their forst language and tend to follow set scripts, if you get them off the script the standard of english falls away.
this is not to say , of course that english peeps dont scam.
search on gumtree for the latest mobile nokia n98 or similar
and you wrer getting pages of chinese scammers
At the moment they are getting pounded by cameroon pet scams.
have a look at london dogs if you see a pict of the cutest puppy in the world with no price or free to a good home or £200 or under it is 99% a scam.
email them for more info (from a new email address)
and you'll get a standard speil, sometimes they hide their location but you can cut and paste the header into spam email locator and they are all cameroon, i suspect butr cant confirm its one team of lads inan internet cafe there.
sometimes you;ll see picts of the same dogs or them all cropped to the same dimensions. they want money by western union to ship the dogs to you. the old ive been moved to another city/country ploy.
i tried a couple, got on the chat agreed the money, told them i want to barbeque the dogs and they never notice, thei english id pretty basic although better than my cameroonian.  |
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punk rocker
Joined: 10 Jul 2009
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Location: London
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| montyzuma wrote: | Afer a while you get to know the format
the people doing these scam rarely have english as their forst language and tend to follow set scripts, if you get them off the script the standard of english falls away.
this is not to say , of course that english peeps dont scam.
search on gumtree for the latest mobile nokia n98 or similar
and you wrer getting pages of chinese scammers
At the moment they are getting pounded by cameroon pet scams.
have a look at london dogs if you see a pict of the cutest puppy in the world with no price or free to a good home or £200 or under it is 99% a scam.
email them for more info (from a new email address)
and you'll get a standard speil, sometimes they hide their location but you can cut and paste the header into spam email locator and they are all cameroon, i suspect butr cant confirm its one team of lads inan internet cafe there.
sometimes you;ll see picts of the same dogs or them all cropped to the same dimensions. they want money by western union to ship the dogs to you. the old ive been moved to another city/country ploy.
i tried a couple, got on the chat agreed the money, told them i want to barbeque the dogs and they never notice, thei english id pretty basic although better than my cameroonian. |
have you ever had one of those nigerian letter scams in your inbox?
nigeria is the scam capital of the world. |
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montyzuma
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:15 am Post subject: |
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on or two ...................thousand
i think i can tick nearly all the boxes
various top men with people who have died
various sargeants in the us arny who have came across saddams money
old woman dying of heart disease who want me to do good
sundry orphans with 17 million
the rather nasty, someone want s you dead email send me money and i wont do it
not to mention the accomodation pet and phone scams
nigeria followed by romania with cameroon coming up on the inside
and as net access gets easier adn cheaper in africa and other poor places it only going to get worse
one posted here today not seen one for a while standard format
http://forums.gumtree.com/viewtopic.php?p=3664922#3664922 |
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punk rocker
Joined: 10 Jul 2009
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Location: London
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| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| montyzuma wrote: | on or two ...................thousand
i think i can tick nearly all the boxes
various top men with people who have died
various sargeants in the us arny who have came across saddams money
old woman dying of heart disease who want me to do good
sundry orphans with 17 million
the rather nasty, someone want s you dead email send me money and i wont do it
not to mention the accomodation pet and phone scams
nigeria followed by romania with cameroon coming up on the inside
and as net access gets easier adn cheaper in africa and other poor places it only going to get worse
one posted here today not seen one for a while standard format
http://forums.gumtree.com/viewtopic.php?p=3664922#3664922 |
I tried viewing that post but it seems it doesnt exist.
Have you taken it down? |
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montyzuma
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Joined: 25 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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some keen person has taken it down
usual list of electronic goods at great dollar prices
there'll be another along in a while |
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WheresMeNuts
Joined: 28 Nov 2008
Posts: 43
Location: Glesga Ya Bass !!!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| montyzuma wrote: | Afer a while you get to know the format
the people doing these scam rarely have english as their forst language and tend to follow set scripts, if you get them off the script the standard of english falls away.
this is not to say , of course that english peeps dont scam.
search on gumtree for the latest mobile nokia n98 or similar
and you wrer getting pages of chinese scammers
At the moment they are getting pounded by cameroon pet scams.
have a look at london dogs if you see a pict of the cutest puppy in the world with no price or free to a good home or £200 or under it is 99% a scam.
email them for more info (from a new email address)
and you'll get a standard speil, sometimes they hide their location but you can cut and paste the header into spam email locator and they are all cameroon, i suspect butr cant confirm its one team of lads inan internet cafe there.
sometimes you;ll see picts of the same dogs or them all cropped to the same dimensions. they want money by western union to ship the dogs to you. the old ive been moved to another city/country ploy.
i tried a couple, got on the chat agreed the money, told them i want to barbeque the dogs and they never notice, thei english id pretty basic although better than my cameroonian. |
Looks like you need to learn English !!! |
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