eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back

jcomeau_ictx writes "Justin Spence doesn't take lightly being scammed out of $1155 for a laptop he never received. The seller, Salvatore Wise, Jr. of Philadelphia, is growing openly more hostile over the webpage Justin produced exposing his and his wife Michelle Heinlein's scams to the world. So far Justin has documented $6841.00 total lost to this crook, but the total is more likely in the tens of thousands. " As it goes along it just gets more and more bizarre. My favorite part is when "Sal" says that all the earlier messages were sent from a different Sal, but you can tell them apart because the true Sal always writes his emails in italics.

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Emails in Italics?

[Webmoth]

I've got Pine. And it comes from UW, not Italy.

Re:Karma Whoring

[Pharmboy]

thanks for posting the text, since the sites are /.ed already, even tho the mods are smoking crack.

I had not heard about it.

[legomad]

Speak for yourself.

Re:where's he live?

[k3v0]

i live in philadelphia. email me

What do you mean Lower case?

[Oriumpor]

FROM THE DESK OF ALHAJI BABA AHMED (60).
WEMA BANK BANK PLC.
NOTE WELL. REPLY ONLY TO THIS E-MAIL SAFE ADDRESS: alhajibaba_a@yahoo.com
DEAR BELOVED,
APPLICATION FOR ACCOUNT CLOSURE. A/C NO. 1417-4578-35. SORT CODE NO. BSB 6505 , BELONGING TO MR PACKER TORIES.

COMPLIMENT OF THE DAY. I CRAVE YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND TRUST IN THIS MEANINGFUL AND CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP. I AM ALHAJI BABA AHMED , THE DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS MONITORING AND SUPERVISION DEPARTMENT OF WEMA BANK PLC LAGOS.
I SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE TO FRONT YOUR REPRESENTATION TO LATE PACKER TORIE
S, A FOREIGN BUSINESSMAN WHO HAD ACCOUNT OF US$15.500.00 DOLLAR EQUIVAL.
ENT WITH OUR BANK.
SINCE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH IN EGYPT FEW YEARS AGO ON HOLIDAYS WITH HIS FAMILY MEMBERS, ALL EFFORTS TO TRACE HIS NEXT OF KIN PROVED ABORTIVE HENCE MY DESIRE TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE TO STAND IN AS HIS NEXT OF KIN TO CLAIM THIS FUND. INDEED,I DONT WANT THE MANAGEMENT TO TAKE OVER THIS MONEY AS UNCLAIMED FUND AS STIPULATED IN OUR BANKING LAWS AND REGULATION HENCE MY CONTACTING YOU. IT IS ONLY TO MY KNOWLEDGLE FOR NOW.
HOWEVER, YOU ARE REQUESTED NOW TO FORWARD AN APPLICATION FOR CLOSURE OF HIS ACCOUNT LIKE THIS TO THE DIRECTOR , INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT, DR ,RICHARD EGO. HIS E-MAIL:drrichardego@fastermail.com ,INFORMING HIM THAT YOU ARE THE NEXT OF KIN AND THE BENEFICIARY OF THE FUND. HE SHOULD CLOSE THE CCOUNT ABOVE, FOR YOUR OWN BANK ACCOUNT WHERE YOU WANT THIS FUND TO BE WIRED INTO.
YOU GIVE HIM YOUR OWN NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT, PRIVATE TELEPHONE/ FAX AND E-MAIL FOR EASY WIRE AND COMMUNICATION.
I ONCE MORE CRAVE YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN THIS MEANINGFUL TRANSACTION. I WILL THEN INFLUENCE AND FACILITATE THE SWIFT WIRE INTO YOUR OWN SUBMITED BANK ACCOUNT AND LATER WE WILL DISBURSE THE FUND FOR OUR OWN BENEFIT AND YOU HAVE A FAIR SHARE.
IT IS A CONFIDENTIAL , MEANINFUL AND RISKFREE.
BE READY TO SEND ME LETTER OF INVITATION FOR MY VISITING YOU THERE FOR MY SHARE.
THAT YOU OBLIGED THIS YOUR APPLICATION IS GRANTED AND THANKING HIM IN ANTICIPATION.
PLEASE ENSURE URGENT RESPONSE FOR DETAILS. TO THIS MY CONFIDENTIAL AND SAFE E-MAIL ADDRESS. alhajibaba_a@yahoo.com.
YOURS TRULY.
ALHAJI BABA AHMED.
WEMA BANK PLC. ( DIRECTOR ACCOUNT/ SUPERVISION DEPT).

Re:Karma Whoring

[mattACK]

Me too. I haven't moderated in at least 4 years. I don't know why.

Re:Karma Whoring

[agallagh42]

No no no, you have to smoke MORE crack. Then you'll get your mod rights back fer shure. :p

Re:Caveat Emptor

[renehollan]

Actually, they're planar magnetics: the principle is that you take a conventional speaker's voice coil (which has significant mass, thus inertia, thus sluggish response to "recover") and stretch it out to a single wire. Bond this to a thin diaphram (kapton is common) and place it within a big, honking, magnetic field. Voila!

Such speakers tend to be on the low end, sensitivity-wise, volume depending on current (there's a limit before the wire catches fire or melts), and magnetic field strengh. Still, coupled with a good amp, they have amazingly flat, albeit a bit directional (which can actually sometimes be a good thing to help avoid undesirable echoes), response above 200 Hz or so, all the way to ultrasonics.

I've always wondered what one could do with this principle and neodymium iron boron magnets.

Off topic

[HaggiZ]

Apologies for replying in the article, wasn't sure how else to contact you.

Is this free iPod thing for real? Unfortunately I'm not in the states so cant progress through the second stage of the site. Although I'd be interested in some more details, please shoot me an email ;)