Common Traits
Continued from the Hay-Scams Page

They use Gmail!
They do not seem to understand 'common' things about Hay.

Their animals are starving or they have lost animals because they are out of hay

They use a 'woman' persona to try to dupe you.

Messages are sent as 'rich text' or HTML rather than 'plain text'  This is so the pasted reply to you will not suffer from broken lines.

Message comes in as a "Blind Carbon Copy", it is addressed to someone else (or to the scammer himself)  but is sent to a number of people.

Spaces around certain words in the second or third contact messages where they have 'pasted' in what item they are currently scamming you for.

Great big "RED FLAGS":
If they ask: How much hay can I (the scammer)  get for X dollars?

They push you to HURRY and depost the check.

Any reference to Patrick Atim Etim Inyang, Atim Etim Patrick Inyang, Patrick Inyang Etim,  Inyang Etim Patrick, Etim Inyang Patrick,  Atim P.I. Etim,  Mr. I. E. Patrick,  A. P .I Etim, or further combinations of those initials ......  it's a hay purchaser scam.

and the Biggest proof that this is a scam is:
You are to Wire money to someone you do not know, after cashing the purchaser's check.

Opps! We are logging Nigerian scammers that regularly visit this web site so I don't want to 'educate' the scammers by pointing out the things that make their e-mails easy to spot.

If you have any doubts, just ask them for a small Paypal payment and see how they react.

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