DENNIS CRANSTON??? ANSWER PLEASE...IS HE A SCAM!??!!

OKAY....I GOT A WEIRD EMAIL ABOUT THIS DENNIS CRANSTON....HE SAID HE FOUND MY DOG....AND HE SAID..THE ONLY WAY WILL GET HER BACK IS IF I GIVE HIM AN AWARD.....

ONE:THE FINDER THAT FIND UR PET...ITS UNSUAL FOR THEM TO ASK FOR MONEY TO GIVE UR PET BACK...

SECONDLY....ITS ODD THAT MONTHS LATER...UR GIVEN A RESPONSE THAT SOMEONE SUPPOSEDLY FOUND UR PET....

AND THIRD...I RECEIVED ANOTHER EMAIL THAT HE FOUND MY BIKE....I HAVEN'T OWNED A BIKE FOR YEARS....I HAD ONLY ONE BIKE AND THAT WAS WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL....HE SAID....I WILL GIVE UR BIKE BUT I NEED AN AWARD OF MONEY BECAUSE I NEED TO HAVE MY BILLS PAID........is this a scam!??!!

Hi altarserver.

Dennis Cranston is the alias used by a scammer whose real name is Raymond Oladimeji.

http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=914

Please could you PM me the entire (latest) email that you were sent (including the full headers) and I will pass them onto the South African police unit dealing with him at the moment.

altarserver

You have PM.

Hi Altarserver,

As Chris has mentioned, what you have posted is most definately an attempt to steal your money.

Like all scammers, this individual will use use a variety of methods to entice you to send money, whatever it is you have been promised is a lie, the basic concept of the scam is that you are promised goods, cash or service and must pay fees up front, once you have payed whatever fee it is they have asked for you will recive another request for just one more fee, then another and another until you finaly realise that whatever it is you have been promised is not coming, some victims of these scams never realise they are being scammed and continue to send their money, selling their own possesions, borrowing from friends and family and sometimes stealing to pay the ongoing fees.

The perpetrators of these advanced fee frauds have no regards or remorse for the damage they cause.

As Chris has suggested, please post the emails here which will assist ongoing investigations as well as help other otential victims of this fraud