General: does this seem like a scam to you?

From: Milanobiker
To: giosSR215
Subject: Re: cranks
Date: 07/12/2009

im accpet western Union money tranfer.

Plase infor if you want to buy and i will mark "sold"

say me when you will send me the money and give me your address and names.

send the money to

Rumen Stefanov Rangelov

Bulgaria Europe

Nova Zagora

thanks ?

haha word i was just wondering.

"im accpet western Union money tranfer."?

i knew right away

Consider him banned

Well, this situation all depends on how you look at it, with me being from the us, I have dealt with many encounters like this from europeans, the way they word their situations with deals are very similar to this. I traded another guy from italy that sounded alot like this, even on the phone, and it took me a long while to get to trust the guy I was trading with. I have done cash deals with europeans as well, so the money transfors and such were a trust thing as well. one thing I do know, is that many of them do use Western Union only, so that is going to be totally up to you if you can trust them or not. So Im not saying this isnt a scam, but I wouldnt completely jump to the conclusion that it is a scam, just going by my own experiences.

aw snap. my friend just sent that dude a money order. i guess hes out some loot.

quick question, the lady gave us a number that the dude needed to pick up the money. theoretically if we didnt cancel it would he be able to still get the money? just not that sure how money orders work.

On the Money Order, you put both parties names. That MO will only work with those two parties. So, if your friend needs to cancel (he should to just play it safe than sorry), just have him go back to wherever he bought it and show them the receipt of the MO. And they should be able to give back the money to him (but not the fee to get the MO in the first place).

And if you don't cancel it, and the person goes to a post office or whatever place they can get it cashed, it's forever lost for you guys.