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ac7av
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Warning Possible Scam?

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Warning Possible Scam.

I received a response to an ad I place for a Laptop for sale. Everything looked legit until I got a response from one person interested that goes like this;

Does anyone know if this guy is for real or not???

E-MAIL COPY from erik anthony e-mail address erik1980@email2me.net

Hello Erik
Thanks for the responce i really appreciate it.i
am
okay with
the
price of the laptop and i will be
glad to purchase it from
you .I have
contact my client in state who is owing 4000
for a very long
time
and his
finding it difficult to pay me my money to issue a
check of
the
amount he owns me and send to you for payment so that
you can
take
your said
amount from it and help me send the balance the reason
why i
have
make the
payment this way is that, the balance you will be
helping me
to send
will be
used to pay my shipping company for the pick-up of
the item
from your
location as soon as the payment is made and he has
agreed to send you the check.so if you are okay with
this pls
provide me with your
NAME............... FULL MAILING ADS...................
CONTACT PHONE NUMBER................................
ESPECTING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOONEST.
REGARDS
Erik Montgomery
ac7av@earthlink.net
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