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Sprucemoose:

PAYPAL is your friend ;D

pointdablame:


--- Quote from: Sprucemoose on September 03, 2004, 10:54:07 am ---PAYPAL is your friend ;D

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haha, no it isn't.  Paypal is *this* close to being a scam in and of itself, but that's an entirely different story.

GGKoul:

All this reminds me of the time the guy sent a scammer a "fake" Apple Powerbook.  And the scammer had to pay all the customs charges for the fake item.  Too Funny.  

Stingray:


--- Quote from: Tilzs on September 02, 2004, 04:54:18 pm ---Well you can go along with it verify it and say you'll do that. They guy says he needs to ship it as soon as you receive the check which sounds fishy. If it's a scam hes not going to let you verify if the check is good before it gets shipped. His wording is a bit weird but if he's french canadian I could see an email like that.


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I think some of you guys still don't get how this one works. He doesn't care about the Tron cab. He doesn't care if it ever gets shipped. If he ever does send you an address to ship to, you can count on it being bogus.

This is how it works.

1) The agreed price is $650. He comes up with some reason why the check will be for $1200 (or some other amount).

2) He'll send you a counterfiet cashier's check &l tell you to pay for shipping out of the extra amount and then wire him the surplus $400 or whatever it turns out to be.

3) By the time your bank figures out that the check was bad, your money is long gone.

4) The cab never leaves your house. He never wanted it to begin with.

-S

koolmoecraig:

As of this morning, I have received 4 identical scam emails for my Tron.

I dealt with the problem by sending trojan viruses in the "pictures" that they requested.

Yum.

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