I found this on craigslist and knew it was a scam!!

I saw a free pied bald ball python on craigslist and knew it was a scam and he even had a lovely picture up there and so I emailed him and he never emailed back till today!! Well heres what he wrote.....

hi there
she is still available,what i am looking is a caring and loving home for the
her,a family that will spoil her with love and take her as part of
the family.the only thing you have to do is
to pay for
the transportation and delivery fees of the snake to your home and also
i will like to make you know is that with the help of your information
like full names,contact address,house address and your nearest airport
you will have the pie ball python at your home in time and on good
condition,in addition i will like to tell you that the python is
presently located in crm Cameroon which is just 8hours flight to your
location.the python will come with all her health papers, it will cost
you $140 for the transportation and delivery of the python to your
home so please if this is okay by you then make sure you contact me
back for further details okay, all i will like to have from you is you
to assure me that you will take good care of the pie bald and if you
do that then i can assure you that the python will be yours okay.
thanks and take care
What a idiot can't you tell he's a scammer!!

Sweet. Free Piebalds. Ill take 2.

I got the exact same response except it was for and African Grey parrot. I knew it also was a scam but didnt know they used other animals too!!

All these scammers always say they are from Cameroon. You would think they would switch up the country so it isn't so easy to know it is fake. I wonder if anyone has actually sent them money.

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Originally Posted by lmartelli77

All these scammers always say they are from Cameroon. You would think they would switch up the country so it isn't so easy to know it is fake. I wonder if anyone has actually sent them money.

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My cousin did for a dog. I think it was a preacher from Africa. Sent him like 500 dollars. What an idoit

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Originally Posted by mdjudson

My cousin did for a dog. I think it was a preacher from Africa. Sent him like 500 dollars. What an idoit

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Wow. :confused:

My Brother in law gave some guy $9000 for a boat that he'll never get. And my inlaws were bugging me about the cost of my new hobby at least I have something to show for it that was well under 1/10th the cost!

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Originally Posted by Darkice

Sweet. Free Piebalds. Ill take 2.

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I second that :D

it's almost mildly amusing...but enough people must fall for it since they're still around trying it :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by mdjudson

My cousin did for a dog. I think it was a preacher from Africa. Sent him like 500 dollars. What an idoit

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I got that same email for a dog!!!!
Rev. Colin Oakley in West Africa on a Christian Mission. He needed to adopt out a baby Yorkie. Cute dog in the photos he sent.
Man. Sorry to hear your cousin fell for it.

Ive seen similar things on a couple of the reptile auction sites , what kills me is if they were going to scam somebody , I would atleast learn to type the ncorrect language so they could understand what I was trying to say.

An 8 hour flight from Cameroon? Yeah, right!

and here I'm taking the long way around to get pieds by breeding hets. and someone is just giving them away!!!! where do i sign up? :rolleye2: people like this should be shot.

Heres his reply after I told him he was a scammer and that I wouldn't pay him the money any day!!

hi there
yes i also usually sell me pied ball for that amount but i am
giving this for that $140 just because i want to change my line of
business and i am giving it out so cheap also because i want my new
products to reach my by the end of the week that is why okay and i
will like to make you know that i have been in this business for about
12years today and i want to try a different line in addition i am a
christian and a God fearing person that can not disobey the ten
commandment.so please with the experience that i have in this business
i will make sure you have the python in time and in good conditions
okay just know that they are many people out here but they are
different in their characters and behaviors. the bible say,don"t take
what don't belong to you and do to others what you want others to do
to you and i believe in that so please don't loss faith and don't let
what you want to go down okay.
thanks and take care
God Bless You

tell him to send you the snake and you will pay for it after you get it.

They are selling so to speak many kinds animals, I'd just tell em to send mine C.O.D.

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Originally Posted by crazy4reptiles88

Heres his reply after I told him he was a scammer and that I wouldn't pay him the money any day!!

hi there
yes i also usually sell me pied ball for that amount but i am
giving this for that $140 just because i want to change my line of
business and i am giving it out so cheap also because i want my new
products to reach my by the end of the week that is why okay and i
will like to make you know that i have been in this business for about
12years today and i want to try a different line in addition i am a
christian and a God fearing person that can not disobey the ten
commandment.so please with the experience that i have in this business
i will make sure you have the python in time and in good conditions
okay just know that they are many people out here but they are
different in their characters and behaviors. the bible say,don"t take
what don't belong to you and do to others what you want others to do
to you and i believe in that so please don't loss faith and don't let
what you want to go down okay.
thanks and take care
God Bless You

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I was going to say more....but I think this works better.

Lol.

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Originally Posted by crazy4reptiles88

Heres his reply after I told him he was a scammer and that I wouldn't pay him the money any day!!

hi there
yes i also usually sell me pied ball for that amount but i am
giving this for that $140 just because i want to change my line of
business and i am giving it out so cheap also because i want my new
products to reach my by the end of the week that is why okay and i
will like to make you know that i have been in this business for about
12years today and i want to try a different line in addition i am a
christian and a God fearing person that can not disobey the ten
commandment.so please with the experience that i have in this business
i will make sure you have the python in time and in good conditions
okay just know that they are many people out here but they are
different in their characters and behaviors. the bible say,don"t take
what don't belong to you and do to others what you want others to do
to you and i believe in that so please don't loss faith and don't let
what you want to go down okay.
thanks and take care
God Bless You

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Tell him his family is going to turn into goats it FREAKS them out :8::8:.I told one of them that i placed a curse on the email and as soon as he read it they would all turn into goats :rofl::rofl:.

I really hate how these scammers try and use religion to sucker people.
That's lower than low IMO. :rage:

Hey check this out.Its a yuletide pied :rofl::rofl::rofl:. http://www.reptileauctions.com/yulet...auctiondetails

I seen the same ad and i decided to try it out! So I left my # and at 4:20 in the morning some guy called and said " ju wan de pie python?" and I told him that i heard the ad was a scam and he hung up.Oh well! I guess it was.

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Originally Posted by crazy4reptiles88

I saw a free pied bald ball python on craigslist and knew it was a scam and he even had a lovely picture up there and so I emailed him and he never emailed back till today!! Well heres what he wrote.....

hi there
she is still available,what i am looking is a caring and loving home for the
her,a family that will spoil her with love and take her as part of
the family.the only thing you have to do is
to pay for
the transportation and delivery fees of the snake to your home and also
i will like to make you know is that with the help of your information
like full names,contact address,house address and your nearest airport
you will have the pie ball python at your home in time and on good
condition,in addition i will like to tell you that the python is
presently located in crm Cameroon which is just 8hours flight to your
location.the python will come with all her health papers, it will cost
you $140 for the transportation and delivery of the python to your
home so please if this is okay by you then make sure you contact me
back for further details okay, all i will like to have from you is you
to assure me that you will take good care of the pie bald and if you
do that then i can assure you that the python will be yours okay.
thanks and take care
What a idiot can't you tell he's a scammer!!

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While you would think that there would be nobody left who could be dumb enough to fall for any of the scams originating in Cameroon or Nigeria or elsewhere for that matter, just last year a man that was the County Treasurer for a rural Michigan County fell for a scam from Africa where he sent many thousands of dollars of County funds to a scammer as "good faith" money in one of those scams where a "banker" needed someone to claim to be a relative of a deceased person to get the money released from the deceased person's bank account. He said that he intended to replace the County funds when he got his big windfall before it was noticed that the money was gone. He left his County bankrupt and insolvent. They were sending him off to the big house. If just one in a million people is that stupid, no wonder the scammers keep trying.

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Originally Posted by lmartelli77

All these scammers always say they are from Cameroon. You would think they would switch up the country so it isn't so easy to know it is fake. I wonder if anyone has actually sent them money.

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That's a good point.. Alot of them do clearly state they're from cameroon. They might as well say "Hello I'm a scammer." You would think they'd get a clue and lie about the location.

But not all of them say out right that they're from cameroon. I've seen "trained" piebalds for "adoption" plus $180 each for shipping, and that was out of Pennsylvania. I talked to the "lady" and when I asked about her horrible english she claimed she was from France.

Wow on that one add 6-10 months for incubation? Boy I'm not gonna have babies for another year!

My brother in law fell for one of those, someone sent him a check for $4,000 and he was supposed to cash it and send back all but $400. He cashed it kept the money, spent it all, just so he could be stuck paying back the bank for the next couple years, and he almost went to jail for cashing a stolen check. He was just lucky that in court he sounded as stupid as he really was :rofl:

Gotta love Craig's List. I'm sorry but if someone is stupid enough to fall for a scam like this they deserve whatever they (don't) get. At this point these kind of things have been happening for over 10 years now. There's no excuse anymore not to be on guard against them.