{"id":1648,"date":"2010-11-28T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/2010\/11\/28\/happy-cyber-monday-and-some-japanese\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:24:36","slug":"happy-cyber-monday-and-some-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/happy-cyber-monday-and-some-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Cyber Monday!   And some Japanese guy from Canada is buying up the Hamptons!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545002063481512978\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Scamsperthhousesaleaustralia.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/> So today is now something everyone is calling &#8220;CyberMonday.&#8221; It&#8217;s the day that retailers are promoting as the next best thing for the economy since &#8220;Black Friday.&#8221; It&#8217;s the day where America forgets about heading to the mall and instead logs onto their computers and shops! What a nice thing, right?! No fighting over parking or dealing with store employees who are trying to work scanners or fixing there mistakes as they wait for a manager with a &#8220;key!&#8221; Instead you just go online click a button and voila! Let&#8217;s just hope you don&#8217;t have a problem. Everyone keeps talking about scam websites. Also, what if it doesn&#8217;t fit or its defective!? Yikes, the next thing you know you&#8217;re on the phone with &#8220;Tiffany&#8221; in Mumbai and the problem just got worse!<\/p>\n<p>We all love the internet but it&#8217;s a dangerous place and real estate agent&#8217;s aren&#8217;t immune from all of this either! Take this case in point&#8230; I&#8217;m minding my own business the other evening, shopping online&#8230;. wondering where in the world they find the models for L.L Bean! They all look like my grade school gym teachers (what a great insult! &#8220;You could be a model&#8230; for L.L. Bean) when I get an e mail for an offer on one of the properties I&#8217;m selling. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I will offer of $485,000.00 for the home. Please send me the contract for me to sign and return immediately this will be my retirement home and it will be a cash buy<\/p>\n<p>1. I will want to close on 22nd December, 2010<\/p>\n<p>2. I want to put down $5,000.00 Earnest money<\/p>\n<p>3. $120,000.00 will be applied towards the closing balance<\/p>\n<p>4. I want to put contingency on inspection on the contract.<\/p>\n<p>My legal name is Jirou Hayashi of 2000 Sheppard Avenue, Toronto Ontario Canada M3N 2J1 and I am single, I will not be in Canada before the closing date to wire the funds to the attorney so I will advice you to send me an attorney information for a check to be drawn to give enough time for check clearance since I won&#8217;t be in Canada to wire funds for closing.<\/p>\n<p>Please forward to me a purchase contract agreement in DocuSign format, DocuSign format is an electronic way of signing document. I am presently in a remote Japanese city and will not be able to access any documents in pdf because of no access to printing and scanning machines please note this.<\/p>\n<p>My account manager Mr. Abraham Jacob will Issue payment in US Funds $155,000.00USD for 5,000.00, the will be for earnest money, second deposit of $120,000.00 and the remaining $360,000.00 will be disbursed accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>My rep Mr. Abraham Jacob Esq. can be reach at: 1-647-862-1135, I strongly advice that I need an attorney to represent my interest in this transaction, my lawyer can pay to seller or title company so therefore I would like to deposit all payment with the lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Please I need the following information for your attorney immediately for payment<\/p>\n<p>Law Firm Name&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Law Firm Address&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Law Firm Telephone&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer&#8217;s Name&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nJirou Hayashi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What a nice man! He has to be real! His prose sounds like he&#8217;s bad with English&#8230; like written menu at a certain restaurant I frequented in the city AND he wants an inspection!!! He has to be real! I didn&#8217;t even have to show him the house! Ohhhh&#8230; if it&#8217;s too good to be true maybe it isn&#8217;t!?<\/p>\n<p>So I google the attorney&#8217;s name and apparently Jirou has been making offers from Florida to California! Go ahead, you do it! On TRULIA.COM there were postings with essentially the same letter I received over and over and over and over again. In fact one poor broker wrote about how her sellers already started moving out of the house!!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it&#8217;s some sort of fishing scam where they acquire information on the seller and then use that to apply for credit cards, loans, etc. Bummer too, I had already spent the money on The Motorized Monocycle from Hammacher Schlemmer!!! ( http:\/\/bit.ly\/h7rPy9 ) At least there is no gruff looking model like L.L. Bean. Sadness ensued.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m not alone in the Hamptons. I mentioned this in an e mail to some agents and got back 4 or 5 e mails where Jirou was buying their listing too! Once again, mom was right, if it&#8217;s too good to be true it usually is just that! But she also told me I could grow up one day and become an L.L. Bean model. Hmmmmm what was she trying to tell me!?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545001442057185346\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 261px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/womenverge.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/> One last thing! I saw the new musical WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. It&#8217;s been eviscerated by the critics but you know what? It was actually a really enjoyable show! Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheree Renee Scott headline a quirky, ambitious and fun show. I loved the movie version and I think the show, (although the music is lacking) is a worthy follow up. I thought BILLY ELLIOT was awful and it won the TONY! Once again, what do I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today is now something everyone is calling &#8220;CyberMonday.&#8221; It&#8217;s the day that retailers are promoting as the next best thing for the economy since &#8220;Black Friday.&#8221; It&#8217;s the day where America forgets about heading to the mall and instead logs onto their computers and shops! What a nice thing, right?! No fighting over parking &#8230; <a title=\"Happy Cyber Monday!   And some Japanese guy from Canada is buying up the Hamptons!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/happy-cyber-monday-and-some-japanese\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Happy Cyber Monday!   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