the Macaw Scammer

195.24.209.14

philly2rogers@yahoo.com

Re: macaws

Hello Bunny,

At last I have found a home for this very love and protected species of bird. I will be very happy to send back this bird to my country and into a caring family that will take good care of them. They are very healthy, are hand tamed are already speaking. They are close to 20months (1year 8months) old now.
As you can see hyacinth macaws are an endangered species of bird the whole world and America risk loosing just one.That is why this species of birth is being protected from extinct.
I am called Philip Rogers and I live in Victoria . I was given this pair of birds by a fellow American Brother who is no more living .What has made to send back these birds is the nature (community health volunteer) of my job that will be taking me to the war thorn region of Dafour in Sudan , and America risk loosing the species of this bird. Actually these birds (gigi and jiji) came from America and so sending them back will be no problem. You shall only have to renew their papers so that they can be flown back into the US. I will want you to please give me the following details of yours so that I can take the birds to the airport and they will contact you back as concerns the flight papers of gigi and jiji. Th e details of your I will need are,
-Your full names..............................?
-Your House address.........................?
-Your street address.............................?
-Your city and zip code..................................?
-The nearest airport where the birds will be flown into for you to easily pick them up as to facilitate things.
Thank you for your response to my mail and I am looking forward to sending you these birds as soon as possible because I have less than a week to leave for Dafour in Sudan.
Thank you and take care.
Philip

Now, the funny bit is I started trading insults with this guy. He wasn't really very good at it, couldn't write in coherent english. Finally, he claimed he was taking the non-existant birds to a non-existant shipping company. I heard from the shipping company (a fake, using an outblaze free e-mail address, rock.com, with a link at the bottom of the e-mail itself making it easier to report abuse. This is also an outblaze.net company, so I reproted it to them too. ) This is a tatic the scammers use. They then write pretending to be the shipping company and start demanding money for care of the non-existant pet. Some have even faked being lawyers or law enforcement and written to try and pressure folks into sending money.

Here's a copy of the scammers fake shipping company e-mail.

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nsimalen_inter_airport@rock.com

195.24.209.14

DEAR CLIENT,

WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE IN OUR KEEPING A PAIR
OF HYACINTH MACAW BIRDS ?(MALE AND FEMALE).BROUGHT TO US BY ONE MR
PHILLIP ROGERS.WE WISH THAT YOU CONFIRM WHETHER YOUR SHIPPING
ADDRESS IS CORRECT SO THAT WE CAN PROCEED TO SEND THE BIRDS OVER TO
YOU USING YOUR SHIPPING ADDRESS.

-PICK UP NAMES: BUNNY SWANN
-HOUSE ADDRESS : ..........................
-STREET ADDRESS: ............................
-ZIP CODE: .......................................
-PICK UP AIRPORT: .................................

IMMEDIATELY YOU CONFIRM YOUR SHIPMENT AND PICK UP ADDRESS WE
ARE GOING TO PROCEED WITH THE SHIPMENT.
FLIGHT RESERVATION OFFICE,
NSIMALEN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
TEL:00237 9937 1441
E-mail:nsimalen_inter_airport@rock.com
B.O.BOX: 5010 YAOUNDE-CAMEROON
VC

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