Topic: GTFOOH!

[faux fiddy]

This is a new internet abbreviation that I wish to start on this board. Unlike LOL or ROLMAO, I am going to claim that this thread started the GTFOOH! contraction for those certain occaisions, P perhaps when you try to sell an item on CL and receive the standard "Keep this item for me, the check is on the way, the car will be picked up by my agent with extra money for yada,yada yadda. you can simply say GTFOOH!

The GTFOOH! is a nice short way to insult the ones who aren't true idiots, but that are working on it as a goal in life.

For instance:  On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:12 AM, john sean <jsboutiqueinc16@gmail.com> wrote:

I  heard that your item is still for sale via  my assistant  ,i would have love to come and see it,but my scheduled is very tight.I will mail out your payment once you provide your full name.phone number and address.I can only pay via money order as am on a business trip now,pls let me know where to send your payment to because i wouldn't want to lose it to someone else.I don't mind adding ($50) dollars so you can keep it in my favor,you should get your payment in 4-5 working days i will appreciate if you can get the ad off craigslist so i can be sure you are keeping it in my favor.Please let me know as soon as you receive it so i can start making arrangement for the pick-up.
Thanks

Answer:

How about I give you my bank account and credit card  numbers while I am at it? GTFOOH!

[DarcyCB400F]

GTFOOH!

[MoMo]

Good one TFI   You need to offer your SSN,  too.  Can't see how anyone can fall for those obvious scams but I guess they must as I have gotten more of those offers than I can count on my fingers and toes...Larry

[Damfino]

C'mon fella's....sounds legit to me. 

[faux fiddy]

Spam the spammers!  Cut, paste and send repeatedly!

jsboutiqueinc16@gmail.com

RE: Craigslist item

Dear Sir:

Thankyou for your inquiry into the items on Craigslist you have shown interest in. While Craigslist.org is an excellent place to pick up others unwanted items at discount prices, it appears that you have responded to an internet scammer. The item you have inquired about appears to be non-existent. I am sorry but the photographs were taken from stock photos off the internet. Please respond to this e-mail address to relay your continued experience with this scammer.

Please be encouraged to complete your transaction in good faith as we would like  you to help end the posting of these fraudulent non-existant items being put on Craigslist.org.

Please contact abuse@gmail with any correspondence of this transaction with the words "Urgent CL scams" in the title  of your e- mail  so that we can prioritize these violations of T.O.S.

Sincerly,

MailerDaimien.abuse@Gmail.com

[singedebile]

the last time i responded to one of those emails (in a polite way i might add), they anwered very angrily (without of course denying any of it). i guess that the only way for these things to work is have someone manualy read every reply...  maybe we can spam their mailbox!

[Roach]

i got one of those something just like it.. they wanted me to send my mustang to England they sent me a cheque in the mail for 16,000... i listed it for 10,000 the extra 6 was supposed to be for shipping.... my bank caught the cheque right away cuz i asked them if it was real..5 days later they gave me a call and said it wasn't...i kind of knew that this was what was going on...i called the guy up woke him up it was 3 in the AM there he started yelling at me cuz i told him the deal was off that the cheque didn't clear and that i reported him his phone number and address to authorities. who were going to contact British authorities..

what they do is send you a cheque then when it clears they can take out all your money out of your accounts and they have your car too... i called the RCMP fraud line and made a full report. never heard back about it again. sold the car to a very nice kid who never drove before and wrapped it around the phone pole outside the high school

GTFOOH!!!!

[333]

Just for the record, Tree, this is not a "new" acronym.  It was listed in the Urban Dictionary in 2005.  A good one, though.  It sounds like a good title for a news segment on SNL or The Daily Show.

[faux fiddy]

Just for the record, Tree, this is not a "new" acronym.  It was listed in the Urban Dictionary in 2005.  A good one, though.  It sounds like a good title for a news segment on SNL or The Daily Show.

I figured it should have been used somewhere already.  When I listed the car i think I got two or three attempts.  Not sure why they do something as small as a Bass amp, but I guess the investment in starting the scam is a minimal effort.

http://www.autocarshippers.com/Car_Shipping_Scam.html

Fraudsters target online car sales. Online Car Shipping Scams.
There is a growing car shipping scam on the internet which has been targeting sellers of cars, boats, motorbikes and other single high value items, even horses !

We first came across this in January when we were approached by a car dealer in Australia who had been directed to a website purporting to be on of 1st Move International's car shipping sites.

Car Shipping Scam: The hook

Fraudsters had copied aspects of our site and were advising potential victims that they would buy their vehicle and ship it via their approved shippers, pointing the victim to this so called shipping site which they had published themselves. Once the seller had been "hooked" the fraudster then sends a cheque to the seller for the cost of the vehicle and, very kindly, includes in this payment the costs for shipping the vehicle overseas.

Car Shipping Scam: The Con.

Say the car is being sold for £ 4000.00 and the shipping costs are £1000.00, you, the seller, get a nice little cheque for £ 5000.00 which you duly bank. The bank may even advise you that the funds are in your account, cleared and safe.

Car Shipping Scam: The Sting.

Within a few days you will be asked to send a slice of this money to the shipping agent in order to pay for the shipping. ( the shipping costs of £1000.00) You are requested to send this money by Western Union or Moneygram which you do as you have been paid.. This transfer is untraceable and cashed immediately. Meanwhile your bank tells you 10 days later that the original cheque has bounced and promptly takes the money out of your account.

You have been conned For £ 1000.00 ! Or dollars, yen, euros whatever, this scam is worldwide.

NEVER SEND MONEY BY WESTERN UNION, LEGITIMATE COMPANIES HAVE BANK ACCOUNTS. BANK ACCOUNTS ARE TRACEABLE.

Latest Scam Warning:
Criminal gangs target car buyers through online car traders and auction sites.

Beware of individuals or websites offering to sell you a car below market price. These scammers advertise great deals on car trading websites and will ask you to send money before they ship your car. They will tell you the car is with their shipping agent and point you to a website which claims to securely hold your cash while they ship the car to you. They will even direct you to, what looks like, a reputable car shipping website, or money escrow site, but one they have simply copied from the web and changed the contact numbers to their partners in crime.

Copying a website is a very simple cut and paste job and some of these criminal websites can look very, very convincing. However, they are simply copies of genuine websites with the contact details changed. Phone numbers listed are to untraceable mobiles and emails sent to you via bulk email accounts. If an email comes simply from an email account or an internet service provider be very suspicious.
 
Genuine companies will email you through their website: example: jim@autoshippers.co.uk is good, autoshippers@hotmail.com is a con. Always check your email headers by looking at the properties of the email sender. Tip: simply right click any email address, look at properties and you can usually see exactly where the email has come from. We currently receive over 10 emails a day from victims of this fraud, this is now big business and easy money for fraudsters. It has also been the subject of a BBC investigation. You can see the news report on the BBC News: Car Shipping Scam.

See also IC3 warning on auction fraud here:

Don't get caught………… Good advice.
Be cautious of overcomplicated transactions involving shipping agents, business partners, middle men and so on, all designed to leave you seriously out of pocket, and the crooks with your cash.

As with all online transactions please check the credentials of who are you are dealing with. If it sounds to good to be true, then it normally is.Please also be aware that anyone can just copy and paste a website, change a few contact details and they are in business. Always check out the website URL and contact the real site owners if you are suspicious.

If you receive an email from someone check that the email is coming from a reputable website. If it is coming from just an email account and not a genuine company be very, very suspicious.

UK shipping companies, or Freight Forwarders, belong to the British International Freight Association (BIFA). You can check their site here: www.bifa.org.  Better still why not call the shipping agent personally and check them out. They do a good job and will be happy to help and advise on all things shipping. If you get that itchy feeling in the back of your neck and say Hmmmm. Then walk away.

NEVER SEND MONEY BY WESTERN UNION, LEGITIMATE COMPANIES AND HONEST FOLK HAVE BANK ACCOUNTS. BANK ACCOUNTS ARE TRACEABLE.

Spread the word, pass this message on:
If you have a website which would benefit from this information then please feel free to copy all or any of this information. I am the author. It is copyright free. This article has been written by Jim Limerick, managing director of 1st Move International. This article is copyright free and can be used by any parties, provided acknowledgement is made to the author and a link back to www.autocarshippers.com is placed on the your web page.
Thank You.


1st Move International Ltd.
International House
Chittening Estate
Avonmouth
Bristol BS11 OYB
Tel 0117 9828123
Fax: 0117 9822229
Email jim@shipit.co.uk

Our associated, and genuine, websites are
www.shipit.co.uk   
www.autoshippers.co.uk 
www.moveme.co.uk 
www.autocarshippers.com

And finally a note to the scammers. DO NOT COPY OUR WEBSITES.
We take copyright infringement as a serious matter, we know you don't, so we wont threaten you with any legal stuff if you copy our website. HOWEVER.. We report all fake copies of our website to the   Internet Crime Center, IC3. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).

We also report fake copies of our sites to the relevant police authorities in your country, including http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/ and will contact your web hosting company with details of your site.

[weekend_junkie]

I scammed a scammer once, and IT FELT GREAT.

Tell them they have to overnight the payment to reserve the item and that you will deduct the cost of overnight shipping from the sale price.  I got a scammer to spend $15 to send me fake travelers checks, boo yah!

[Gordon]

I scammed a scammer once, and IT FELT GREAT.

Tell them they have to overnight the payment to reserve the item and that you will deduct the cost of overnight shipping from the sale price.  I got a scammer to spend $15 to send me fake travelers checks, boo yah!

If you have a little more time on your hands there are ways to screw them even better:

http://www.419eater.com/html/baiting.htm

[faux fiddy]

Oh, did anyone claim to have had the most fubar day yet?

Since we're talking scams...

After I posted this I was called by chase bank. Fraud section called and left a message. Wasn't my card, it was my dad's.  I talked with the first person who could not talk to me personally. I told them that if the card was used in the last three or four days, well, didn't happen on this end. So the conversation went-

"Oh, well  since it's not your account then we can't really even bother with you."

I explained to her. "Well you called here. This is a simple fact no one has used the account for perhaps a week or more."
 
My advice to her was to heed what I said about dad's account and tell her supervisor.

I also missed the second call from the supervisor and called back again. I explained again that the card was not used in perhaps a matter of weeks.


Well I explained dad was under the weather and I could try to have him tell the guy it was okay for me to know what the heck was going on (Dad's had a  very sudden  dispondency but talked with the guy.)

Well it appears the spree started in Missouri where we travel. Perhaps a motel employee- it is what happened before. I guess maybe they do a test to see if they have a hot 16 digits. From there it gets sold to ...

Then I spent a half hour talking with the guy about the charges that began today. Many from Russia. He asked me about whether I had done business in Berlin today. Had no recognition of any of the companies, but I recognized one name "Bauhaus."  Sorry I 've heard of "bauhaus " from the art history but no Berlin and no Business with Bauhaus.


But now the most, most Fubar part of the day. An hour later it was time to be a bit concerned enough about dad's onset of  'dispondency.' He was not talking and having trouble staying awake. (911 , emt's gurney, hospital, tubes and all that sh8.) Prayers can't hurt.

[Retro Rocket]

I hope your Dads ok mate....

Mick

[754]

 Sorry to hear about your dad and his fubar problem, hope he gets better..

Meanwhile how about;
 You are going to tell us after 30 years that what we ran cant be working, and how a single sided caliper works... GTFOOH..

[faux fiddy]

Sorry to hear about your dad and his fubar problem, hope he gets better..

Meanwhile how about;
 You are going to tell us after 30 years that what we ran cant be working, and how a single sided caliper works... GTFOOH..

Yeah, respirators don't look like fun and I don't know that being on one is the way he would have wanted it, but he's  showing improvements. Makes for a long night.

Lemme talk with a friend about why he told me I shouldn't even  want to flip my 350 calipers to the back. Maybe I'll  take a pic or two of his brembo'd h-1 triple, too. Nice work, I think he used forks off an rz-500 and period correct campy rims..   I still think there's more to it, he told me a few things. I'll  dig up the flipped caliper thread if I get by to ask.