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I live in Seattle in a medium size townhome and usually have a roommate. I use craiglist usually because it is free and the people who use craiglist usually are alot like me as well.
I got this in my inbox today and it sounds amazing like many of the classified scams we see here at zcar.com - i.e. Nigerian scam, bogus excessive cashiers check, etc.
But this is for a roommate. Whoever can come up with the best idea of how this person could get money from me wins a Mega master cylinder brace of your choice. Let the ideas begin.
Discosure. I am the sole judge and determiner of best story and my descision stands. :).
Here is the email:
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HOW ARE YOU DOING? NICE TO MEET YOU ON THIS SITE WE BOTH MEET AND I HOPE WE CAN KNOW EACH OTHER MORE.MY NAME IS TESSY,25 YRS FEMALE ,A CITIZEN OF UNITED KINGDOM,I GREW UP IN THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA,WHERE MY MUM IS FROM AND I GREW UP IN WEST PART OF CALIFONIA,I LIVE IN OXNARD ALL MY LIFE,WHERE I HAD MY CHILDHOOD LIFE.
I WAS CHANCED TO SEE YOU HAVE A PLACE FOR RENT FOR ME,AND I WILL REALLY APPRECIATE IF YOU WILL RENT IT OUT TO ME. I AM A EASY GOING AND NICE GIRL,ALL I WANT IS A PLACE I CAN GET BACK TO AFTER TRAVELLING AND HAVE A NICE REST.
I AM A MODEL BY OCCUPATION AND I TRAVEL ALOT ALL AROUNG THE STATE AND SOMETIME OUT OF AMERICA,I WILL BE HOME NOT ALWAYS BECAUSE OF MY MODELLING JOB,ALL I WANT IS A COOL PLACE AND A VERY CONDUCIVE PLAVE FOR REST,I WILL LOVE TO HAVE A NICE PLACE TO REST AND RELAX. I WON'T MIND IF YOU CAN RENT THE PL ACE TO ME BECAUSE THAT IS A REAL EXAMPLE OF WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR .
GET BACK TO ME WITH MORE INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF AND WHY YOU WANT TO RENT OUT.
Please take note that she is from the UK, where I still presume English is taught, yet her grammar is somewhat lacking. Or she just popped an acid drop.
Good luck.
1993 300zx NA
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here yah go, shes actually serious, but will steal your money from your wallet and whatnot when shes your roommate ;)
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I don't own the Z, the Z owns me.
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easy...she moves in, throws herself at you, you get married, she gets a green card, and then takes all your money. which isn't all that different from other greedy women, except for the green card i guess...hahaaa
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03 CS Touring
VIN #189
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It's actually a guy with gender issues. He shows up, you flip out and give him all your money just to get him to go away. It's the oldest trick in the book.
John
77280Z (Spooky), 83ZXT (Garage Queen), 86ZXT (Bulldog).
Proud owner of 10/03 Z car of the month.
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i say you let her move in.
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'05 350Z Chrome Silver Touring
'73 240Z
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ya. give it a try
---79zxt---Externaly Gated TO4E Intercooled Running 10-15psi, Built F54 block, Ported manafold&head, Stock ECU/harness
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Yeah I'm sure she isn't a carrier for any known viruses........haha
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I cant believe you actually read the email, then took time to post it on here and ask other people to post about it also. Im still laughing.
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How would I know the email was a scam unless I read it? I posted here as a joke and as a fun little side contest.
You must not have much to laugh about in your life if you think that is funny.
1993 300zx NA
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This thread is useless without pics.
Currently parting out 1990 300zx TT.
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The first thing she will do is move in. Then it will start with some random late night sex. Then you will start dating her and buying her things. Pretty soon you will ask to marry her, one night after going out to a movie you will go for a late night romp in the sack, a child will insue, a beautiful young girl with blue eyes. There will be expenses, you will buy things, after a few years another kid will come along, a boy this time, you will buy more things. You will move into a bigger house. The kids will start school, you will work late bringing home the bacon. There will be tension at home, she will want to know why you dont spend time with her anymore, and that you need to spend more time with the kids. Youll fire back at her that you are busy earning a living for this family. You will sleep on the couch. Some more years pass, the kids are well into elementary school, more tension will arise, when your daugther gets into her 5th grade things will reach a boiling point, you file for divorce. You tell the kids that isnt not their fault. The divorce drags out in court, eventually you will settle it and move on. She keeps the house, you get a shitty apartment. Your kids grow to hate you, you begin to have a mid-life crisis and go out and buy a new convertible trying to reclaim lost youth, you find a few other women to sleep with, but find you would rather sleep in on a saturday then spend all morning playing around in the bedroom. Your kids will start college, they will ask you for money, you give it to them. They ask for more money, you give it to them. Finally they graduate, they find others and marry, you have grandchildren now, they promise to come for the holidays but dont. You later find out that they went to spend Xmas with their mother instead. Growing older you try to take up mountain biking to fill the void in your life, you become quite good at it. It will do you good to, in fact it will be the best you have felt and looked in 20 years, despite being an old codger you will doing will for yourself. That is untill you crash while riding down a ski slope in the summer, you will spend 4 weeks in the hospital before spending another 6 months in phsyical therapy. You wont be the same after that, joints wont work right, your back will hurt, and you never regain your full mobility and now walk with a cane. Your phsyical condition will continue to decay, leaving you feeble and weak, the highpoint of your week will be when your son calls on sunday evening for 5 minutes. You will end your days suffering in an assisted living community using a walker. You will leave no money to your family and they will scoff at your burial costs.
So she really doesnt want anything more than any woman out there.
Currently own:
1990 2+2(For sale soon)
1991 TT(parts for sale)
1993 NA(parts for sale)
1993 Convertible(Converted TT)
1996 TT(with 9,124 miles on it)
"When you do things right people cant really tell that you've done anything at all."
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Sounds like the icy bathtub kidney snatcher one to me.
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Damn, Zluster....
....you nailed it!
JR in Tulsa (4EVER Z)
73 240Z - L28, Triple Miks, 5 speed, 3.9.
83 stock 280ZX
Chaos, panic, and disorder---my work here is done!
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You e-mail her back, and find out that she is interested in the same things you are, and start talking kinky to each other on subsiquent e-mails. She provides a cell phone number that when called, a foreign speaking man answers, but is helpful and soon puts your dream girl on the line.
Her voice is silky smooth, and sultry, just like you want from a whore/lover/roommate. She asks for direction to your place, which you happily, and hornily provide with visions of ectsasy on your mind.
When she finally shows up, she is a black haired beauty with big dark eyes, and a body that is out of a penthouse magazine.
After she moves in, everything seems fine to your untrained and testosterone filled eyes, She is your beck and call-girl in exchange for free room and board (your idea) for a full week, and might I say, the best week of your life. She occasionaly calls her "Father" and speaks in some foreign tongue while running the water in the restroom.
The next thing you know, a doctor is shining a light into your one remaining eye which can only see a sterile ceiling of an ICU room, and all the fluid drips and instruments of a serious hospital setting. You try to sit up, but the burning pain in your gut keeps you from it.
After fighting the infection, and internal bleeding for 3 weeks in the hospital, they finally release you to go home, but you have to catch a cab, because your roommate didn't even visit you in the hospital, or show up to take you home.
You come home to find that absolutely everything in the apartment is vacated, including all the appliances, furniture, personal clothing, pictures, and even your soap-on-the-rope. Further investigation reveals an empty garage where the Z used to sit.
Not only did she rob you of all possesions, a couple of organs, and every red cent in all of your accounts, and investments (hacked computer), but it burns every time you pee. You figure this burning sesnsations is from the hastily removed kidney, but find out the hard way that a regimine of shots are in your future.
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What Z luster said except you will have a great time on the mountain bike & extend your riding to road bikes where you are just slightly slower than people 20 years younger. You'll find that your job with increased responsibilities pays you ever increasing amounts of money and you have more time to play since your subordinates do the actual work. You wonder what took so long to get to this point. You add sailing to your list of activities & spend time on the lake. You also find a plethora of available younger women since you're healthy, have a job, money & aren't a compleate azz hole which most women think men are. Your kids wonder why gramps isn't a built in baby sitter but figure that at least they don't have to take care of you in your old age. They come to visit you more bringing the grandkids & enjoy the activities that you couldn't do with them when you were younger. Life is good. Keep on keepin on.
Anyone can drive a new car.
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Welll just by the way the email is written....the person writing the letter is Russian or Ukranian, etc. Throws the word "mum" in there to make you think she really is from the UK, since Mum is "mom" in the UK. You respond that your interested and want to know more about her...she sends a pic of some gorgeous cute little thing..you know the kind of girl that..ok back to what I was writing about...you email back and forth...she (naturally) needs a little extra "cash" to get here since "modeling have been slow lately"...you say sure how much..she writes back "well if be so kind as give checking or credit card number, not sure how much it cost but pay you back with pleasure"...so with personal information in hand... "girl"...hacks in to your accounts....proceeds to clean out your accounts, ruin your credit history, finds a mortage lender and takes out a "loan" on your condo, cars, etc....this all happens very quickly as she is actually not "girl" but "Russian Syndicate"...and of course it takes years for you to get all this straightened out by which time you are a total basket case...and broke and bankrupt...AND as an added thought she actually shows up and while all this is happening she uses your place as a racketeering/drug smuggling office and you wind up in prison...
1976 280z 2+2 - Risen from the dead - garaged since 1988. Pallnet Fuel Rail and guage - ES rack and front bushings - 260Z 4Speed - Arizona Z Car Clutch - H4 Lights - Lots more to come...
Post Edited (May 14, 8:31am)
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Here is what I've come up with:
A) You write her back with you name and reasons for renting the place. She does a search on yahoo and gets your address. She gives you a call that she found another place but wants to thank you. Your name hoas by now found its self on a new birth certificate where it is taken to the DMV. Tessy is really a guy who is now getting his picture taken for a License with your name and your address. This guy after getting a picture license now has gotten your social security using a legitement photo id and birth certificate and being sent to a family members house where you are supposedly staying. You by now have found a new roomate and forgot about Tessy until you receive the first of several credit card bills all maxed out and all in your name.
B) Requires her to show her face. She moves in and after spending a few weeks her modeling takes her out of state. While your out at work she also packs one of your check books. While in another state she writes several checks and cashes each one at a different check cashing store. You get home don't realize the missing check book. Three days later you bank account is empty when all the checks go through and there is no trace of Tessy ever being in your townhouse.
'79 280zx driver/project
'90 240sx sold :-(
Post Edited (May 14, 8:56am)
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You guys are spending way too much time on this..
It's a good thing there is two kinds of luck, or I wouldn't have any at all.
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2nd
1990 2+2 N/A
SHIFT_style
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Pictures I want pictures of this girl.
Currently parting out 1990 300zx TT.
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It's not a woman writing it. "She" turns out to be a Nigerian "he" who sends you a pre-rent check for excess of the amount and asks you to send "her" back the extra.
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but she said MUM.. so she must be from the uk....
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'05 350Z Chrome Silver Touring
'73 240Z
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Ckelly - if Twilight Zone or Crept Keeper were still on - you'd have a basis for a teleplay.
Zluster - find someone to set that to music and you've got a C & W song if not an album (OK I'm old - cd whatever)
Junkman - I don't know what you're on - but share. (is it possible the name says it all?)
Kcathometaz - Movie-of-the-Week possiblity there or turn it around from "her" point of view and go for The Women's channel or soapopera season. Get together with Ckelly and collaborate on a movie deal.
Big ern - CSI episode? Get your people with Ckelly's people and Kcathometaz's people for a posible merger and syndication deal.
Zluster - see above for the sound track.
Junkman can produce (bankroll the project) until he gets caught.
Ed and Jeanne's
ZXelda 1981 280 ZXT: ZXena 1990 300 ZX
1941 Buick Special Sedanette (Betty)
1956 Dodge Royal (Dorothy)
1971 Buick Riviera (Rita)
1975 Ford F-150 Stepside (Fiona)
1992 Firebird (Frieda)
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erzelda-- that is just too funny! i have tears from laughing so hard!!!!!!
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1980 280ZX coupe
2001 maxima
1994 F150 4x4 van works custom truck
170000 and never needed mech repairs
1996 ford explorer -they cant all be good
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Well. It wasn't exactly what I was expecting when I asked for what scam it could possibly be but I get what I deserve :)
I see you put alot of work into some of these and I apologize for any time wasted Zluster, Ckelly etc. but I have to go ahead and award to the most dorian and non-humorous response - z32dood. He was actually and obviously correct.
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6) I will also like to know if I can make an advance
payment ahead my arrival that will be stand as a
kind of commitment that I am truely coming over and for you
to hold the room down for me.
7) If the #5 and #6 questions is YES, I will like to know the Total cost for the my initial move as in first month rent and if you
accept deposit.
She did put this in there as well.
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9) I will like to know more about you and also I will
like to have your pics as for me to know how my
roommate to be looks like.
I think I will pass.
Anyway. Tell me which master brake cylinder brace you want and then I will set it up Mega. You can email him with your address in a few days.
1993 300zx NA
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Oh yea.
I decided to see if she would send a picture with this:
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Hey,
I actually am the network admin for Heffner Management in Seattle and I see model pictures all the time in the offices and as they go onto the servers sometimes. Do you have any head shots. I may have seen your face already.
Matt.
1993 300zx NA
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>I have to go ahead and award to the most dorian and non-humorous
> response - z32dood. He was actually and obviously correct.
Awesome!
I have a 91 TT. Is there more than one design for the brace?
My e-mail: spectrumzz@hotmail.com.
Thanks!!
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Just color - brushed or chromed or polished. Let me ask if he still does all three. Which is your preference?
1993 300zx NA
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Brushed or polished, either way. I don't have any chrome under the hood. :)
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I'm surprised she didn't use "lingerie model" instead of just "model"
"Sell your truck while it's still runnin'...say a prayer when you feel like cussin'"
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