<VV> Scams

[Harry Jensen, CORSA Executive Secretary]

Hi--

I reported him to Yahoo. They acted fast (see below).

--H

At 01:03 PM 3/15/2007, Yahoo! Mail wrote:
>In this particular case, we have taken appropriate action against the
>Yahoo! account in question that was reported for fraudulent activities,
>as per our Terms of Service (TOS). Please know that Yahoo! is unable to
>disclose the action taken on another user's account with a third party.
>We are not able to make exceptions to this rule.


At 08:15 AM 3/15/2007, Secular wrote:

>   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
> >
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| CORSA Executive Secretary
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