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I understand the concern of some dealers with all the different scams going around....but is it really necessary to waste other dealer's time by trying to see how many fall for your faked 'scams'? In the last 2 days, we have been faxed fake invoices, faxed fake parts orders, and emailed numerous 'offers'. Each one of these takes someones time (and toner) to deal with. There is enough garbage out there, please don't add to it.

PS, if you don't have any idea what I'm talking about, some smart guy in a 20 group several years ago mailed an invoice to every one of his peers. It was a small amount, $190 or so. When the group got to gether next time, he passed checks back out to over half the group! The office manager never checked it out (OR the dealer, in several cases marked it PAY).

Richard, I can see where the 'pranks' can be irritating, however, in the real world there's probably more phony invoices being paid to scammers than many people would like to admit. I knew a guy that did the phony invoice/check return scheme in his 20 Group-more than likely it's been copied a few times-this one in particular happened at least 15 years ago. There's lots of loose ships out there.