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wmenorr67

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Craigslist Scam Used Name of Michigan Soldier Whose Remains Found in Iraq
« on: July 20, 2008, 01:30:00 AM »
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DETROIT   The Michigan attorney general's office and Better Business Bureau are investigating an online scam using the name of a soldier whose remains were found last week in Iraq after a 14-month search.

The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press report Saturday a listing on Craigslist offered to sell a car owned by 19-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Byron J. Fouty of Waterford, Mich.

Someone who claimed to be Fouty's father, Mick, offered to sell a 2006 BMW M6 for $2,800.

Fouty's stepfather, Gordon Dibler, learned about it this week. He says Fouty never owned a car.

Bureau spokesman Tim Burns says officials are trying to track the source. The listing was posted and removed, and e-mail addresses and domain names were changed in an effort to avoid being traced.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,386649,00.html

Let me have 5 minutes with the person once he is found.  Or better yet let the soldier's father have 5 minutes with the guy.  And then if anything is left of him let the unit have at him.
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Re: Craigslist Scam Used Name of Michigan Soldier Whose Remains Found in Iraq
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2008, 02:45:05 AM »
agreed.

Outrageous.
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Re: Craigslist Scam Used Name of Michigan Soldier Whose Remains Found in Iraq
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2008, 04:30:31 AM »
Selling a non-existent car for way less than it's worth is a common online scam.  I'm puzzled by the seller's claim that he's a dead soldier's father.  Even if it were true, how does that help him?
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Re: Craigslist Scam Used Name of Michigan Soldier Whose Remains Found in Iraq
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2008, 04:34:47 AM »
Sympathy.
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Re: Craigslist Scam Used Name of Michigan Soldier Whose Remains Found in Iraq
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2008, 05:40:53 AM »
Combination of sympathy tinged with absolute greed at the thought of getting a Beemer for far less than market value.
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