On More Scams, the scam goes on.

I ended my post yesterday with the following to ole' Clarance, I mean Clifton..., oh who cares!

(As before, my writing is in blue ink, Clifton is in red ink and for those of you who have something for sale on Craigslist and got an email from cliftongemni(at)gmail.com, he's some sort of scammer, I am going to try to figure out what his game is.)

Where are you located? Are you sure you don't want to see this thing first? Wouldn't it make more sense to inspect the bike before you buy it?

Well I heard back from my little Nigerian friend:

Hello



Thanks for your prompt response.am okay with it and i want to buying it right away at the rate of (US$3500.00).I am satisfied with the description of it in which it would be convenient for me to pay through PayPal.I am not available to check it up before purchasing but i have checked the necessary details of the advert...If you are not familiar with PayPal,i would suggest you visit www.paypal.com and make a registration with them and contact me with your PayPal email address after completing the registration.I am presently making proper arrangement with my picker in order for him to schedule how to come for the pick up of the item after payment is made.Please get back to me with your PayPal email address so that i can proceed with the payment.

Now for regular readers much of this lanaugage will look famalier, in particular, if we review my post of October 7, 2010 we get the following from one Clarence Rose:
 
I so much appreciate your response to my earlier mail. I wish to let you know that I'm satisfied with the condition. Like I said there's no doubt I'm gonna purchase it. Therefore I want you to consider it sold by withdrawing the advert from craigslist. Note that you will not be responsible for shipping and handling. My shipping company will come to your location for pick up. Kindly provide me your name and full address, so i can forward it to the shipping company to calculate the cost of pick up for me. Please get back to me as soon as possible.


May your troubles be less, your blessings more.
and nothing but happiness comes through your door.

Okay, not verbatim the same, but very similar. In particular, the business about being satisfied with the condition, now he's satisfied with the description. Anyway I think he just wants to rip people off, lets give him some BS to feed on, first create an email address, or use a hotmail account that is the great depot for all things Spamish. Next create a Paypal account, here's the confirmation email:

Finally, lets send ole' Clifon an invoice (boy Paypal sure does make this easy, too bad I apparently live in the residence of the Prime Minister of Canada!):

Finally we write this piece of work scammer a little note,

Hi Clifon,


So where in Europe are you stationed? East Germany? Yugoslavia? Czechoslovakia? Anyway I sent an invoice to you from XXX@hotmail.com. As soon as I recieve payment you can pick up your bike.


Say I have an uncle stationed in the Nato base in Darfur Albania, have you ever been there? Perhaps you met him, his name is David Cameron.


Michael

If I thought Clifton had any brains at all I wouldn't list countires that don't exist any longer, East Germany... Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, besides these are all East Bloc nations, members of the Warsaw Pact, although I suspose there may be NATO bases in the Czech republic, there is certainly a few bases in Germany. What was Yugoslavia, hasn't been in the news lately, thank goodness. But really, Darfur Albania... of course none of my uncles are the Prime Minister of England!

I'm sure there's more good stuff coming my way soon!