IF YOU'RE EARNEST I'LL BE FRANKS

the flip-off: april 21, 2005

Anti-scammer Allbee Franks placed an ad on a car sales web site.
The name of the ad and car have been changed to protect the mischievous.

I placed this ad to bait scam artists for fun and no profit.
It is a FREQUENT target for the refund scam artists


The Scammer(s): Howard Bean (doingitright@fastermail.com)

The Scambaiter(s): Allbee Franks


Howard Bean

X-Apparently-To: Allbee Franks via 66.218.93.194
X-Originating-IP: [205.158.62.67]
Received: from [212.199.109.250]
From: "Howard Bean" doingitright@fastermail.com
To: Allbee Franks
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005
Subject: Buying('00 Model_T)$10,999

Hi,
I am very much Interested In Buying your'00 Model T,I have been searching for it quite sometime now.
Do get back to me as soon as possible with the last asking price and, if it is still for sale?.
Payment will be made with International money order or certified cashier check.
Thanks and have a Greatday.
I look forward to hearing from.

Kind regards,
Howard Bean

Well what d'ya know? A buyer for my fake car - the IP is from Israel no less! Do you think he's gonna drive it back?

[Scam-o-note: it is often not possible to trace a scam-o-gram back past the satellite ISP, several hops upstream from the actual sender. West Africa (most of Africa actually) gets most of its internet connections by satellite.]

... legit buyers will be told the car won't be out of the shop for at least three weeks. It caught fire, rolled 20 times, crashed into busload of nuns, and came to rest on the school superintendant.


Allbee Franks

Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005

Dear Mr. Bean,

The car is still for sale, when would you like to come look at it? Is there anything else would you like to know about the car?

Certified cashier check would be fine.

Allbee Franks

... I understand that the mugu could be in a bunch of different places, but it's pretty safe to say he
1) Ain't in St. Louis and
2) Ain't even in the US
3) Took the bait and may send a bogus check to:
a) the White House
b) the Mustang Ranch (famous whorehouse) near Las Vegas
c) Graceland

depending on what I feel like telling him. Watch me make the mugu dance.



Allbee Franks

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005

HEY SHITHEAD, DO YOU STILL WANT TO BUY MY CAR?

Sincerely,
Allbee Franks


Howard Bean

Hello Shithead,
I would like you to cut off Ads from the website Immediately and get back to me Immediately with some pictures and your contact details . I'm ready to buy the car, I`m taking you by your words. Do not to worry about the shipping. I will contact my client who is owing me $17,000 to make the payment to you and after you recieving it you will deduct your $10,999 and send the excess to my shipper, who will check the car and convey it from your location.If this terms are okay by you email me with this information, hence I can forward them to my client to make the payment fast to you.
FULL NAME TO BE WRITEN ON CHECK:
MAILNGADDRESS:
COUNTRY:CITY:
ZiP-CODE:
PHONE#:CELL PHONE#:
I look forward to hearing from you.
Howard Bean


Allbee Franks

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005

Holy cow!

Mr. Bean I am so sorry for that email. I sent it to you by mistake. I thought you were someone named Oscar Meyer who said he was coming to meat me yesterday. He kept me standing in the rain waiting for him for two hours and never showed, never even called. That's no baloney, please accept my apologies.

Here is the information and pictures you asked for:

Name: Allbee Franks
Address: 207 West High Street
Jefferson City, MO 65102

Phone: 314-241-1818 or 314-652-3476

Please accept my apologies again,

Are you going to meat me in St. Louis?

Allbee Franks

[Here Allbee attached some pictures of a pristine late-model car - not really a Model T. But you knew that.]

FYI - address is for the Attorney General of Missouri
The phone numbers are for the Soulard Meat Market and Taylor's Sausage Co, so hopefully he will call them and ask for Allbee Franks



Howard Bean

Hi,
Apologies accepted.As convey by the last mail my shipper/frieght agent is the person that will check it out.I will give him a call to know how is going to look like. Honestly, I am satisfied with the pictures.


Allbee Franks

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005

Dear Mr. Bean,

I'm glad you like the photographs. I am the original owner and I took really good care of it. Everyone says the car is a cream puff.

Once again, sorry for being such a weiner.

Allbee Franks


Allbee Franks

April 16

Dear Mr. Bean,

Are you still interested in my car? Is this kosher?

Allbee Franks


Howard Bean

Dear Frank,
Ofcourse yes. I am still very much interested that was why I asked about the payment details you gave to me. I am not Kosher, okay?
I thought you read my message which demanded for payment details, which also told you that I will forward the details to my client who will issue payment. I HAVE ALREADY ORDER THE ISSUANCE. Please kindly go through my last emails and get the arrangement properly.

Regards
Howard.


Allbee Franks

Dear Mr. Bean,

Again, here is the information you asked for:

Name: Allbee Franks
Address: 207 West High Street
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Phone: 314-241-1818 or 314-652-3476

I have another buyer. If you are still interested I will need to have this deal completed by, oh, let's say sometime in the Ball Park by Wednesday. I do have another vehicle for sale in case I sell the Nissan to someone else.

I notice that your email appears to originate in Israel, perhaps we are related. Are you a Hebrew National by any chance?

Allbee Franks


Allbee Franks

Dear Mr. Bean,

I was born in Frankfurt, so I am sorry for being such a sour Kraut, but we need to complete this deal pronto.

I didn't tell you that Mrs. Franks had a bun in the oven, and yesterday she gave birth to Boyle D. Franks while we were attending a barbecue. Fortunately Pastor Mustard was there, he has experience delivering the little cocktails.

So please send me that check!!



Allbee Franks
Howard Bean

Dear Frank,
Thanks for your emails and CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! I can see that you desperate to sell, I am equally desperate to buy it.I have asked my client who is owing $17,000 to issue the payment(I`m sure it is issued already) so as to wrap up this buying as quick as possible and upon receiving it, you deduct $10,999 and send the balance to my shipper/freight agent, so as to complete the change of ownership and take the car from your possession as soon as possible, just to repeat myself, ok?

I must say once more that I am satisfied with the pictures you sent.Please, endeavour to have a little patient as the cheque will get to you sooner than you think.

Kind regards,
Mr. Howard Bean


Allbee Franks

Thank you Mr. Bean,

I relish the opportunity to raise little Boyle. He's wrapped up in his little blanket right now, so small and pink, like a little pig. I wish I could keep the car for his big brother Nathan, but not now with two mouth's to feed.

Allbee Franks


Allbee Franks

April 19

Hello Mr. Bean,

What's cooking? Did you send the check? I have someone else coming over to look at the car today. He was grilling me about how soon he can drive it away. I am not used to being in such a rare situation. I really don't have the skin for this type of thing, I just want this to end up well done.

Little Boyle is fine, a nice boy, not a braten. We are very busy. My wife Patty has her family here from home her town of Hamburg. Her brother Weber was all fired up, asking me things like "do I bring home the bacon". Patty's little sister Wendy has been telling me all sorts of half-baked stories, some of them real Whopppers I'll tell you, like how they grew up in a White Castle and how they used to sing "Old McDonald" growing up. And her slutty sister Marinade has been all over me. They really are a Hardee bunch, it must've been fun growing up on the Ponderosa, and they were all so nice, I never got so many condiments in one day.

Please hurry up , this car is USDA prime, I have to tell you. I am not full of soy, if you want to see more I can send links.

Allbee Franks


Allbee Franks

Mr. Bean,

I have someone sitting in my kitchen with $10,200 cash. Are you still interested in the car?

Allbee Franks


Allbee Franks

Hey Schmuck,

Don't bother sending me your fake check. And I regularly email people selling cars on the web site to warn them about assholes like you.

Allbee Franks (ALL BEEF FRANKS)

At this point Allbee included some very funny pics of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile:

http://www.automobilemag.com/officegossip/030829_weinermobile/

This is worth a look just for its own sake. America is a great country, by golly!
We've got the Doggie Diner heads, the '76 station Eyeballs, we've got it all.
Someday in the distant future, when aliens are excavating our planet, they'll stumble on things like the Wienermobile and know that an advanced civilization did exist.



Howard Bean

shithead,
Do you know you have a mental problem,
motherfucker.


Allbee Franks

And I also called the Attorney General, you cowardly piece of shit. Keep the insults coming, they only make me laugh.


Allbee Franks

Date: 21 Apr 2005
Subject: A song you might like

Oh I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner
That is what I'd truly like to be
Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer Wei-nerrr
All the girls would be in love with meeee




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