is this a scam?

[dsirkle]

People fall for them. I had a customer a year or so back who was telling me they were buying 0.3 Pieds and 1.2 Banana's. They got to telling me about this email and how they were going to wire this person money and were so excited because of the deal they were getting. I warned them this was a scam and explained the whole thing. Few months later they were calling me wanting to know if I knew of this "Breeder" in Cameroon that they could call cause they still hadn't gotten their animals.

Sent the person 2100.00 and to this day haven't even so much as gotten a return email.

It's hard for a jaded old guy like me to understand how someone could fall for this but it's very sad that anyone loses $2100 hard earned dollars to somebody like that.

[joepythons]

Yep its the Nigerian scum scammers once again .If you play with him for awhile they get frustrated and tell you your mom will turn into a goat .I would tell him i was local and will pick them up.I wonder if they can beg since they are well trained

[wilomn]

It's hard for a jaded old guy like me to understand how someone could fall for this but it's very sad that anyone loses $2100 hard earned dollars to somebody like that.

Greed. You know it's too good to be true, but you want it to be soooooo badly you go with what you know can't be right because you'll, not you Dale, save so much and get such a great deal instead of using 2 brain cells and realizing that this just doesn't happen.

Ever.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

It's hard for a jaded old guy like me to understand how someone could fall for this but it's very sad that anyone loses $2100 hard earned dollars to somebody like that.

Agreed, even if I am not that old though

Not long ago a woman in GA made the news for falling for a scam not once but twice.

She was contacted and told she won the lottery somewhere (not recalling where) and she needed to send money so the prize could be processed and money be sent to her.

When she did not receive the money she contacted the person, he apologized and said he would need one more payment from her to finalize everything and the worse is that she went for it.

Scammed not once but twice.

Scammers count on people's greed and desperation and in some cases apparently it works, from lottery scams, to online fantasy boyfriend having problem abroad & needing money to expensive animals/goods for a fraction of the cost etc

Bottom line if it's too good to be true it usually is!

[PghBall]

I messed around with one of those lottery scammers for a week or so until he/she got really ticked at me and told me to quit playing games..lol. Told him that I was homeless with seven kids and living in Lost Springs, Wyoming (has a population of 1).

This is the email he sent me..I edited the four letter word he used at the end.

United Parcel Service Nigeria LTD
Plot 16, Oworonski Expressway
Gbagada Industrial Estate
Lagos
Nigeria
Tel: +234-8137053694


Attention: Harry Krotch,


Regards to your mail, well understood. Be inform that you are being requested by us to go and collect the money you sent to us back, cause in our data base still indicated INVALID western union control pick-up information in my office.

I therefore advise that do not play games with us, kindly proceed as we stated and go to the wheatland western union and pick-up your money back, then if you are still interested in claiming your funds you better go to genuine western union shop and reproceed with the require payment with the above name of CLINTON OJO in other to get this matter settle.

If you do not go and collect your money back, i guess you are playing games with us and do not border to email us any more, cause we have getting tired of you in this transactions and also know that no one $%*@s with my organisation just like the way you are doing.

Warm Regards,
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Edward Ronald
(Dispatch Officer)
Direct Line: +234-813-705-3694
Email: courfed2270@aim.com

[JADE_reptiles]

This has been around for a while. . . these guys are in cameroon. DO NOT SEND THEM MONEY!!! They do not own these animals, nor will they send you animals. I had ran into these guys last year, and when I asked them to send me a picture of the snakes with today's newspaper, they just kept dodging me. Then they told me they were out of cameroon. Good luck on your search for real ball pythons from real breeders. I am very glad you checked here before you went ahead with paying them anything.