I might not be in the right forum... but

[Katiebeth103]

In searching for the meaning of mud.mail.yahoo I found an old post that led me to this site.
So, I will ask my question here.
I have gotten myself into an email conversation that is turning odd. Here's the senerio.

I posted a message on Craigslist.com looking for a multifamily home to purchase. Many people contacted me about buying a home that I had for sale.
Anyway, this one person states they are from Africa and want to buy my home. I send them a polite email telling them of them of the misunderstanding.
Being the friendly and honest person that I am, our emails continue.
In a nut shell, she asks for a home in Atlanta. I write back telling her I can't help her, I am in the north east.
She writes back asking again to see the pics of the home I have for sale. I remind her that I don't have a home for sale and I send her several real estate links.
Now, I hear from her husband saying they want a 1 million us dollar home and their lawyer will be in touch with me and he mentioned a commission. No dollar amount.
Okay, now I am thinking they are not interested in a home. They want something but I don't know what.
I'm starting to be worried, yet curious.
If they can afford a million dollar home, then they have the smarts to use a realtor and find real estate through a website and not me. Also, they certainly don't need a multi family home.
I can't find their names or id's on Yahoo. Here is the details of the email that I received.
can someone give me any clue to what this may be about?
Thanks,
Sally

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[RicheemxX]

Sounds like they are trying to lure you into some sort of scam, more than likely they'll end up asking you to set them up with cash or some sort of account!! There really isn't much you can do as far as reporting them to anyone as they haven't asked you for any money or anything along those lines.

here's a link with some info http://www.internet-fraud.com/cgi-bi...um=DCForumID21

[jrsweger]

Do yourself a favor and remove your email address from your post! Through AOL can't you block certain email addresses or identify them as spam then you don't have to see them. After a while maybe they'll let you alone.

[elroy]

This is a scam in the making. You can play along and see where it goes but I already know where it will end. They have mentioned the carrot [the commision] if you are greedy enough to let your greed over rule your common sense you will expose yourself to financial loss in pursuit of the carrot. They may ask you to put up some money or they may want to send you a money order [fake] and get you to cash it etc. My wife and I have been selling on the internet for years now. Any inquiries from Africa or Mexico are immediately discarded. Even if they do follow through and pay most likely it is with a forged money order.

[Katiebeth103]

I have told them a total of 3 times that I can't help them and I sent them links to real estate sites and told them they could find links to realtors from these sites.
When the guy mentioned that he wanted a home worth 1 million in US dollars, I knew something was up then and that I definalty would not help them any further.
The curiosity on my end is wondering why they keep emailing me and what else they would offer. I am not falling for any of this.
Just curious and I am now amused by this.

Sally

[simbob]

lolololol ignore them or sign them up to adult illicit sites, thats IMO

[Katiebeth103]

Oh My Gosh! You are so funny! And, you reminded me of a prank I played on a friend in High School.
I worked at a convenience store and I took a subscription card from a play girl, had it sent to a friend and marked the "bill me" box.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Thanks for the laugh!
sally

[pariscope]

If you weren't an AOL subscriber, I'd say just block the sender. In IE on the main toolbar (the one starting with "file") click "message", there is a button that says "Block Sender." Maybe AOL has something similar.

[simbob]

Originally Posted by Katiebeth103

Oh My Gosh! You are so funny! And, you reminded me of a prank I played on a friend in High School.
I worked at a convenience store and I took a subscription card from a play girl, had it sent to a friend and marked the "bill me" box.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Thanks for the laugh!
sally

lololol anyways, you should take the scam upthe point of they wanting some bank info or whatever, play them at there own game

[dpak]

I read an article at one point (I can't find it now) about a guy who was getting lured into a scam like this and knew it, so he pretended like he was interested and eventually talked them into sending him $100 dollars for shipping costs or something like that The scammers get scammed... It was rather funny...