Sailing School Scam?

[sailingdog]

Originally Posted by tdw

ffill,
despite all my security I've still managed to pick up the 'browser redirection bug' and nothing I do can rid me of it. Absolute pita.

Please tell me you're not using Internet Explorer still... If you are, guess what a big part of your problem is...

[Northeaster]

Jack Dale - Copper theft common on Canada's East Coast as well. We often have thieves, usually in rural areas, steal the copper ground wires from miles and miles of telephone / power poles (puts utility workers and public at risk). They usually cut it off as high as they can reach from a short ladder, or back of truck, etc.

Frustrating that the police don't monitor the few scrap metal dealers to find out who is walking in with big amounts of copper wire!

[sailjunkie]

Originally Posted by Mcpsych

pass it along to Welcome to 419Eater
they will have some fun with it

Good advice.

This looks like one of those scams.

[Triquetra]

Believe it or not, here in FL, they are stealing manhole covers to sell for scrap, and it is a dangerous and expensive problem for the local towns (as well as those unfortunate enough to have an interaction with a missing cover). I cannot believe that the scrap dealers are not a little suspicious about someone dropping off manhole covers.

[sailingdog]

Originally Posted by Triquetra

Believe it or not, here in FL, they are stealing manhole covers to sell for scrap, and it is a dangerous and expensive problem for the local towns (as well as those unfortunate enough to have an interaction with a missing cover). I cannot believe that the scrap dealers are not a little suspicious about someone dropping off manhole covers.

Until the legal penalties for buying them become serious enough, they don't have a down side to buying them.

[KINGZ]

Originally Posted by Triquetra

Believe it or not, here in FL, they are stealing manhole covers to sell for scrap, and it is a dangerous and expensive problem for the local towns (as well as those unfortunate enough to have an interaction with a missing cover). I cannot believe that the scrap dealers are not a little suspicious about someone dropping off manhole covers.

we Had a problem in Tampa Bay area with ppl at night with a saw zaw slide up under park cars and take the catilitc converts, big money in scrap there, after a few months they started watching the scrap yards. busted two scrap yards, one was complete shut down and owner and two employes went to jail becuase they knew they where buying stolen goods, the other scrap yeard had one employee sent to jail and the company was fined quite a bit of money.

after all that hit the news here, it all stopped pretty quick becuase they coudl not find anyone to buy them anymore..

I think it will go the same for the man holes covers. that is state property and should rais a flag if some scap yard is buying them randomly.

[tdw]

Originally Posted by sailingdog

Please tell me you're not using Internet Explorer still... If you are, guess what a big part of your problem is...

Havn't used IE for years, though it is still installed. Principal browser is Firefox but I've also tried Google Chrome with the same result.

You would not believe what I have done to get rid of this bug. All the bug killers including MalwareBytes, Hitman Pro, HijackThis and SPyBot S&D. Anti Virus program is Avast. Have even loaded them from another machine onto a USB stick and run from the stick, knowing that some viruses (virii ?) can play funny buggers with installed programs.

[sailingdog]

Good fuzzy... e-mail me a screen shot of what you're getting and I'll see if I can dig up a remedy for you.

[moorehal]

We have received exactly the above SCAM at Pentagon Sailing Club. At first we did not know what to do with it, so we responded and said that we don't accept credit cards and insist on cash only. They never responded back.

[dnf777]

ANY time someone want to buy something from you, but somehow winds up asking YOU to send THEM payment in ANY form............look out!

My steadfast rule, that has never let me down.