What is the scam?


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Posted by David Sherman on Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 12:32PM :

In Reply to: Re: Another Nigerian scam posted by Aussie Mark on Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 9:47AM :

The scam is I expect that if I say "yes I will take credit cards", they will tell me they want to over-pay for the item and have me refund cash somewhere. The credit card number is no doubt a stolen one they buy from some Russians. I mentioned it as a new scam, because it wasn't the usual "$25 million in a hidden bank account" scam, and it wasn't the one where they want to buy your truck and pay with a cashier's check if you'll send $5000 cash to their buddy who does the shipping.

I responded professionally to both of these Nigerians and told them I'd need to know what they wanted to buy before I could quote shipping (seems reasonable, doesn't it?), but after that, they didn't reply. I think it's very odd when somebody says they want to buy something from my website but they won't tell me what it is.



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