[meteorite-list] SCAMS from Morocco

From: Matteo Chinellato <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:12 2004
Message-ID: <20010227214044.91833.qmail_at_web10312.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello all

The same for me, the same person, Mohamed Boukadi,
have sent to me the same photo have sent to mr
Gessler, I have write to this person for have a little
piece for analysis but I not have received answer.
This person is a very criminal, no give any mony to
this person.
Regards

matteo

--- Nick Gessler <gessler_at_ucla.edu> ha scritto: >
CAVEAT EMPTOR (Let the buyer beware.)
>
> The US Department of State Travel Warning for
> Morocco reads, in part:
>
> "Morocco has a high crime rate in urban areas.
> Criminals have targeted
> tourists for robberies, assaults, muggings, thefts,
> purse snatching,
> pick-pocketing, and scams of all types. Most of the
> petty crime occurs in
> the medina/market areas, parks and beaches. Commonly
> reported crimes
> include falsifying credit card vouchers and shipping
> inferior rugs as a
> substitute for the rugs purchased by the traveler."
>
> Beware of Casablancans offering meteorites over the
> Internet.
>
> At least two of us on the Meteorite-List have been
> approached with offers
> to sell meteorites from Morocco. We have been sent
> a photograph of 29
> meteorites on a white sheet. One of us asked for
> samples and received no
> reply. The other of us, me, sent partial payment
> for a FedEx shipment and
> has watched the offer escalate: death in the
> family, automobile injury,
> money for shipping spent, will send extras like
> trilobites and jewels, will
> send not 60kg but 100kg, the "stakes" keep getting
> higher, the "carrot"
> grows in size, but I have received nothing besides
> promises. "Buy quickly,
> I have received a better offer," and "I really have
> 1000kg of meteorites"
> were the neweest enticements. I set up a FedEx
> account so that I could
> offer to pay shipping without sending the seller any
> more money. He
> responded by sending me a scan of a FedEx shipping
> document, the kind
> anyone can pick up at FedEx and fill out on his own,
> telling me this was
> the "receipt" they gave him. According to FedEx the
> shipment was never
> made, the tracking number, while valid, has never
> been scanned in
> Morocco. I thought I might go to Western Union and
> pick up one of their
> blank money-wire forms, fill it out, and send a scan
> to him, but I'm sure
> he wouldn't appreciate the humor. I've cancelled
> that FedEx account number
> and will wait for more developments...
>
> I have spent what a four-day meteorite hunting
> expedition would have cost
> me. A calculated risk since I've often come back
> empty-handed. So I'm
> more pissed off than hurting financially. Does
> anyone have a similar story?
>
> The photograph is on my website at:
>
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/167-2001/morocco.jpg
>
> Is it time to send the Meteorite Sheriff and his
> Posse to Morocco?
>
> Take care,
> Nick
>
>
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