<VV> Scams

[Secular]

  it's a cut & paste job !

  I placed an ad for steel patch panels and received the exact benighted message
  from:

  danny_katey at yahoo.com

  Regards,


  Tony I.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Padgett" <pp2 at 6007.us>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:11 AM
Subject: <VV> Scams


> Amazing. Yesterday I post a "for sale" advt in the Corsa Classifieds and 
> within a few hours am receiving scam messages (four so far):
> "issueing dept of my client will be sending the payment through check drawn 
> from thier us bank account and you are to wire the excess funds to the 
> shipping agent as the payment includes your money for the car and the 
> excess funds you are to send to the shipping company agent through western 
> union money transfer"
> 
> It looks like the VV source site may be being used as a relay (sent an 
> e-mail to the webmaster) or might just be the way the e-mail button works. 
> One giveaway is that other than using the subject line, the message does 
> not seem to know what kind of car it is and it is evident they did not look 
> at my web page.
> 
> Padgett
>