Re: WARNING! Re: Fraudulent foreign orders for GPS units.

From: Peter (peter_at_peter20-o-0.co.uk)
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:24:04 +0000 (UTC)

don.bartlett@rogers.com (Don Bartlett) wrote

>Last Friday I received an email as follow:
>
>"Dear Sir,
>
>"Please give your best delivery price for the followings:
>This is my order list:
[snip]

There is an increasing number of scams where the buyer has put in some
effort to look at the vendor's website, selected plausible products
and is asking for a price. He will pay with a credit card which will
be fraudulent so the CC company will do a chargeback on the vendor
once this is discovered.

The intention, I think, is that the stolen goods are worth *something*
in a street market in some far away place.

There is a more clever version of this scam where the customer is
willing and able to pay in advance. He might pay by a check / bank
draft which (due to the time it takes for these to work through the
banking system) gets after a few months.

There is a yet more clever version where he pays with such a check but
"by mistake" overpays; you then *wire* him a refund of the
overpayment, and then after a few months he check is returned. Then he
has your goods (perhaps worth little if they are specialised) plus the
real cash which you wired to him :)

Peter. 

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