On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:12:24 -0600, MattB
wrote:
flo girbache wrote:
Good day,
i found this bike advert. I need to know if really it's still for
sale,the last asking price for it and the current condition..Please let me
know your method of payment.I preffer paying via a cashier's check. Is this
your personal property? In terms of shipping i have an international
shipping agent that takes good care of my goods, he will be coming for the
pickup in your location.Let me know whats on your mind concerning this
enquiry..
Thanks.
Sam.
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I think this must be an example of a scammer email. Thanks for the
head's up!
My wife got one just like this when posting a bike for sale recently. He
went on to ask if he could use a different payment method than specified
in the ad (I think he wanted to use his own home-made cashier's check).
When we said he could buy the bike, but had to use the specified method
of payment, he suddenly stopped emailing us. Crazy, eh?
I get about three or four fraud-intent whoesale inquiries a month for
the stuff on my website, and it's easy enough to spot them. My
suppliers get even more of these than I do, by at least two orders of
magnitude. In fact, my primary shirt supplier gets so many that he
often has one while I'm there picking up an order.
International fraud is at an all-time high. Cheap communications have
made it possible; gullibility, stupidity and ignorance make it
profitable, lack of enforcement in the originating nations makes it
quite safe for the perps, and greed drives *both* ends of the scam in
many cases.
(Bogus international cashier's checks have become enough of a problem
here in Houston that most banks will refuse to credit a deposit of one
until they have verified that the check has not only been confirmed by
the issuing bank, but that the issuing institution has physically
received it and the funds have been irrevocably transferred. Domestic
cashier's checks are met with nearly as much caution.)
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