creative response to boat-for-sale ad:

[MitchM]

when one advertises a boat for sale, a few people offer to buy sight unseen and send you twice the ask price with directions that you can pay the shipping to their cousin in brooklyn. but offers to ' charter the boat yacht' are a new twist:

Hello Am James,i want to book for Boat/Yacht charter for my Granny's Birthday i want my granny and her guests to feel the beautiful colors from the days last light and the sea breeze on her birthday as an unforgettable memories of life. Let me know if it's available for charter and how many seats do you have available on your Yacht and do you accept credit card payment? Thanks.

i am tempted to reply, $8000 a person with feet dry, $2000 with feet wet. but that only encourages more spamming.

 

[JohnVTX]

They keep doing it because people still fall for it.

 

[uncledom]

Hello wonderful people. I am so glad your Granny makes another birthday. You must give cash to Western Union so I can clean boat and put fuel so Granny and her up to 20 guest may feel the colors of the day. Hurry or someone else may charter the boat! Western Union takes credit cards and will love to deal with you.


Then buy a virus from someone and send it to them as the charter reservation form.

With love from Uncle Dom

 

[capta]

Aren't the 'beautiful colors from the days last light" the reason all our online charter bookings pay through PayPal.

 

[Gunni]

This is a variation on the same scam, your greed leads you to take the rubber credit card and your boat disappears to never be seen again...until the Greek Coast Guard finds it and the Coyote who has it.