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Fraud Alert Warnings
| Special Alert: |
| Be aware an email is circulating to our advertisers requesting credit card account information. The email is form based and has a stolen copy of our logo in the top left hand corner. This email is an attempt to scam our advertisers and should be ignored. It has also been brought to our attention that this email may have a virus attached. We have not independently verified the virus threat to be accurate although we suspect it very well could be. |
| Alert #1: |
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It has been brought to our attention that a customer of another motorcycle classified web site used an Internet based service named cycle-exchange .com to protect his purchase of a motorcycle. According to this un-named customer, cycle-exchange .com was supposed to protect his money via an escrow account. It appears cycle-exchange .com was also the company who placed the fraudulent motorcycle for sale advertisement and encouraged the un-named custom to use the cycle-exchange . com service. To all users of Hogs4sale.com please be aware that Hogs4sale.com has no independent knowledge of the facts or circumstances of the above mentioned claim, but we thought in the best interest of our users that we should alert you of this potential problem. |
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Be aware of an email circulating requesting to purchase a motorcycle. The buyer claims to represent a client who has given them purchase money, shipping expenses and an advanced commission. This group sends a counterfeit "bank check" or "certified check" for the purchase price, shipping and commission. They then request that you cash the check and send them their commission and shipping expenses. We have had a few customers receive the counterfeit check, but their banks have identified the check as counterfeit before cashing and prior to our customers sending money or shipped a bike. |
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A word to the wise...Be aware of motorcycle for sale ads claiming to offer a motorcycle for sale at far below market value. One potential buyer of CycleTrader has claimed, "these fraudulent sellers really have no bike to sell and will request you send them a shipping deposit". Once you send the deposit you never see or hear from them again. |
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Note: Hogs4sale.com manually reviews each motorcycle for sale advertisement and looks for potential frauds. If we suspect a fraud we first investigate the advertisers claims and determine whether or not to allow the advertisement to be run. This is not foul proof, but it goes a long way to help prevent frauds being perpetrated on this web site. *Hogs 4 Sale, Inc. makes no claims, guarantees, or assurances concerning the legitimacy of any advertisement on Hogs4sale.com and the responsibility to be cautious when conducting business on Hogs4sale.com lies solely with the users. |
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Here is yet another scam involving Ebay and Motorcycles. In this scam, Ebay accounts of legitimate Ebay Sellers have been stolen and are then used to scam buyers (bidders) of motorcycles. The reason this scam is so effective is the fraudulent sellers appears to be legitimate with lots of positive feedback from previous buyers (auction winners). Click Here to read more. Article Courtesy of: Local6.com WKMG TV6 Central Florida |
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Please be aware of any Prince, Princess, King, Queen, high ranking Foreign Government Official or someone claiming to be a family relative of such and wanting to make a purchase with third party funds being owed to them. This email looks to be a variation of the email that most people have seen were a high ranking government needs to get money out of his or her country and needs your help. |
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We were recently informed that one of our customers was mailed a counterfeit bank check in excess of the agreed upon purchase price. The sellers bank identified the check as counterfeit and the buyer did not suffer any loss as a result, but this goes to show you it can happen so be careful! |
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Here's a new one: A women recently contacted a seller via email and said her late husband had a debtor in the United States who owed him money and this debtor is willing to buy the motorcycle to repay the debt. The woman also claimed a shipping company who did business with her late husband would act fast to come and pick up the motorcycle. The woman asks that the seller email a name for the check, telephone number and contact address. Our seller declined this woman's offer and no harm was done. This looks and smells like a potential fraud situation. |
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One of seller recently received a counterfeit cashiers check from a woman named Linda Alban with the email address of Linda16@uymail.com . Our seller noticed the scam and was not financially harmed, but it was a big waste of his time. |
| Alert #9 |
| Be aware of a MR. Williams using an email address of David Aldridge from Yahoo, he claims to be a motorcycle wholesaler. It seems he is attempting a fraud as he is spamming our advertisers with a request to have their motorcycle pictures emailed to him. In most cases he is requesting photos of bikes that already have pictures posted on our web site. This indicates he probably hasn't seen any of the ads and is capturing email address with software that crawls the web and captures email addresses to be spammed. |
| Alert #10 |
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I advertised on the net with a reputable advertiser. After a few weeks I was approached by E-mail from a potential buyer. I forwarded a couple more pictures as requested and patiently waited for the deal to consummate. The buyer posed as a broker and stated she shipped merchandise all over the world for various clients. My motor cycle intrigued a certain unnamed client who was interested in the purchase and intended to go through this broker. Here is the catch, I was offered close to my asking price and accepted. I was to receive a cashiers check for the bike ($13,000) and an additional sum to cover the shipping costs. I was to cash the check and then send, via Western Union, the remaining money to the shipping company to cover costs of transfer. This bike was said to be going overseas, and the cost of the freight was $4500 dollars. The scam was almost completed, as I went to the bank with my cashiers check ( I thought these were as good as gold!) My bank gladly accepted the check and gave me the $4500 in cash to send off to the freight company. They did state a 10 day hold would be put on the remaining money (my $13,000) until the check cleared. Like I said I though a cashiers check was good as gold. I thought that once it was accepted by the bank, I was good to go! Well Melissa and I left the bank with a fist full of dough to send off, with the understanding that as soon as the funds were transferred, and confirmed that the shipping company would get the bike the next day. We left the bank in our truck and headed to the Western Union Office. Prior to our arrival we both "felt funny" "heard a voice" or just plain got skeptical and returned to the bank. We asked for our teller to contact the bank the check was drawn from to confirm it's validity. YES! the check was COUNTERFEIT!!! GO FIGURE. We emailed the broker an advised that we had received a counterfeit check. We still have the bike (see attached photos), the freight company did not come for the bike. Escondido PD referred us to SD County Sheriffs (cuz we live in the county), and the sheriffs are to busy to investigate. The FBI took all the information, and was ever so happy we got wise prior to sending the money, but they are also quite busy and in the world of internet fraud, $17,500 is hardly a peanut shell, much less a peanut. I hope this saves at least one person from getting beat!!! If the mood to forward this strikes you, go ahead and let your people know! GOD BLESS all of you, Ned |
| Alert #11 |
| Email recieved by one of our advertisers: |
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Dear Kathleen,
Thanks
for the mail, I have discussed with my customer and convinced
After
payment has reached you and balance sent back to him, his agent
Confirm
this and provide name, address and telephone numbers for check . Best
regard. |
| Alert #12 |
| This email is circulating and looks like a scam: |
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We are General Consultancy
that specialise inpurchase and shipping of vehicle, office ,house
equipments, mechines, hand tools and other items to our numerous customers worldwide. We have a customer interested in purchasing your (1998 Harley-Davidson FXDWG) mentioned above .for the sum of(1 5000) We will arrange a pick up of the(1998 Harley-Davidson FXDWG ) once payment is confirmed by you. Please acknowledge the offer and we will instruct the buyer to have the funds remitted to your account as soon. as possible. |
| Alert #13 |
| This email is circulating and looks like a scam: |
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Good Day, I am Douglas Smith the sale's manager of Douglas Darko Limited, 342 Streatham High Rd. London SW 16 6HH. UK. I have a customer interested in purchasing your property, mentioned above for the sum of $39,500.00. Please acknowledge this offer and indicate the present position of the property and send the different pictures views of your property so that we can instruct the buyer to have funds remitted to you as soon as possible. We will arrange a pick up of the property once payment is confirmed by you. Best regards, Smith |
| Alert #14 |
| Email #1 of 2 |
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Hello, |
| Email #1 of 2 |
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Top of the day and thanks for the mail and inrespect of payment. I have a business partner in the u.s who is oweing me $14,000 all i will do is to instruct him to issue you a cashiers cheque on my behalf and when you have gotten the cheque you will deduct your said amount and wire the remaining balance via western union money transfer to my international shipper's,So that they will come for the pick up at your location as soon as payment is received by them.My shipper's who i have talked things over with about the pick up says they will want you to make thing's snappy and to make sure that you make the all important papers are in place to avoid shipping delay.My shipper's will email you as soon as you recieve the payment so that they can give you their contact address where you will be wiring my remaining balance to,So that they can come for the pick up at your location as soon possible.I will like to know if i can trust you to send my ba lance. Am doing this to make the payment easier and faster. Furnish me with your full contact that are below,
FULL
NAME.................(that the cheque should be issued to)
So get
back to me with the information so that payment can be made which should
get to you by next month. Thanks. |
| Fraud Alert #15 |
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I have received a counterfeit check from a supposed broker in England. The check was for $61,000.00 and was a business check out of Ft. Worth, Texas. I contacted the business and they said it is about the fourth time recently that this has happened.The broker is still emailing me with wiring instructions to send the excess funds overseas. I'm not sure if it is worth taking it to the local police or not? I do have an email address and wire information for the bank that they want the funds sent . I received email from craigorlando @ elvis.com He also called my cell phone from # 646-536-9090...this is a New York number. Another person at my office just received a bank check for his Porsche and it is the same situation. We called Bank of America and the cashiers check is counterfeit. |
| Fraud Alert #16 |
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Good Day, My name is jeff. As regarding your advert i saw indicating that you have a Vehicle for sale.A Client of Mine in interested in buying your vehicle and my client will be Paying you with a Certfied Cheque issued for the vehicle.So i will like to know the actual price of the vehicle and it's Present Condition.I will be expecting you to get back to me as soon as possible regarding my proposal.Looking forward to your response soonest, Best Regards JEFF JERRY. Note: Dont worry about the shippment of the vehicle,my client said he would send some International Shipping Agent to come for the pickup of the vehicle |
| Fraud Alert #17 |
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Dear Billy, I am Mr Eddie Willy a sale agent located in Holland, I will like to purchase your Custom Chopper bike, I saw the advert and forwarded your advert information to a client who is interested, i will like to know if it is still available. If it is, please be sure to provide us with the following informations. :cost :Seller's full name :Condition of the merchadise photo or a prove that its in good shape mandatory :If a cashier check is acceptable We will be very happy if you can provide us with the above requested informations. We will also like to state here that you do not have to bother about the shipping, that would be handled by an appointed shipper. Thank you very much. Regards Eddie |
| Fraud Alert #18 |
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I am MORGAN WILLIAMS THE
DIRECTOR OF MORGANAUTOS.We specialise in purchase of auto machines
for customers in Asia,Africa and Europe,and we get paid in commission,after payment has been confirmed by the seller to the buyer. I saw your advert on the web and wish to find out if the BIKE is still available.If available,I will pay $9.700 for the BIKE and Payment will be made by check. My agent will arrange for the pick up and shipping of the BIKE.Pls get back to me urgently if still available. |
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