posted on March 23, 2006 04:31:00 PM
Boy am I asking for it??
I just got this email - can you believe it:
"Hello, My name is Igor and I'm from Belgrade ,Serbia. I tried to open a paypal account but it was impossible,I can not find my country on the paypal list. I contacted Paypal and they told me that paypal isn't ready and they don't know when it will be. I decide to ask you to help me with my problem. First of all. I don't need you paypal account. All I want from you is to receive and accept payments from my buyers in your paypal account. You will not do this for free I offer you 10% from my profit for your services. Your Job is simple all you have to do is to accept payments from my buyers and after that send the payments to me. I would be very grateful if you take my email seriously and help me with this. Thank you"
Now is that 10% of the auction profit or 10% of what he rips off of me???
The scammer sends you a PHONEY money order for way more than the amount due...
Say your charge is $1000.00...
He sends you a MO for $3000,00 and asks you to WIRE the overage (always via WESTERN UNION) to him in BELGRADE...
You deposit the MO in your bank; then the next day, after the deposit shows as credit in your account, you WIRE the scammer his moola...
SADLY, a few days later, the bank gives you a NASTY call...GUESS WHAT??
"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself—not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch."
—After visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
posted on March 24, 2006 07:27:39 AM
Great - now I'm getting follow-up emails on prior phishing emails.
The original was "from" paypal about someone else trying to log into my account. I sent it to paypal and it wasn't valid (shock). Today I get a follow-up reminding me to take action or else??? Maybe I should let them have my negative balance!!
[ edited by ladyjewels2000 on Mar 24, 2006 07:35 AM ]
posted on March 24, 2006 11:46:39 AM
In this case, the money is via PayPal. I think he puts up phony auctions, you forward him the payment, he never sends the items, your PayPal/bank account gets whacked with the chargeback.
posted on March 24, 2006 01:40:59 PM
Email back to him and tell him you will do it and to make it work (notlegal) tell him you need his bank account information routing number and his name and address and as soon as you set him up in your Paypal account you will then give him the go ahead to sell items and that after you verify his bank account in your Paypal account you will forward him the funds upon Payment. LOL That would leave him open to getting his bank account emptied into your paypal account. LOL VERY unlegal just like all the other scams. NOT recommended but wonder if the scammer would fall for a scam?
Disclaimer!
The above is a joke not really recommended to actually do. But a little email would not hurt.???? LOL
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posted on March 24, 2006 06:49:19 PM
irked jokingly wrote: Email back to him and tell him you will do it and to make it work (notlegal) tell him you need his bank account information routing number and his name and address and as soon as you set him up in your Paypal account you will then give him the go ahead to sell items and that after you verify his bank account in your Paypal account you will forward him the funds upon Payment. LOL That would leave him open to getting his bank account emptied into your paypal account. LOL VERY unlegal just like all the other scams. NOT recommended but wonder if the scammer would fall for a scam?
Happily I can report this only works with bank accounts in the USA via the demand draft or other well known loopholes in the US financial system. Other countries only allow deposits to bank accounts. Banking and financial privacy requirements are years ahead of those Withdrawals from bank accounts require a combination of PIN, signature, verification code or other advanced security features. (Some European private banks use palm or iris scanners.)
Serbia and Montenegro does support IBAN transfers so ask this crook Igor for his banking details; if Igor is stupid enough to provide them, you can forward to Interpol, US Secret Service, etc. More likely he's based in Romania - where some of the best hackers and hijackers learn their trade fleecing gullible Westerners.
The scam is a typical "fall guy" setup. Igor launders funds through a gullible stranger who acts as his local agent. Igor and associates list loads of "too good to be true" items on eBay under various hijacked accounts. Payment goes to the fall guy who takes 10% and passes on funds via Western Union to Romania or Former Yugoslav Republics (where the trail goes cold). Days, weeks or months later law enforcement turns up on the fall guy's doorstep... here it gets very messy for the fall guy who may stand charged with various offences including money laundering, fraud, racketeering...
The only problem Igor faces is, "you can't cheat an honest woman"!
posted on March 25, 2006 10:37:07 PM
Lets see. Set up a new Paypal Account. Hook it to a checking account with maybe $10 in it. Have him send you $25,000
Accept the money, pull it out of the bank. Close the paypal account, close the checking account. Donate $25,000 to the charity of your choice.
(of course give a message phone number (one that takes the message and forwards it to your email). Seems to me, you could be pretty untrackable... especially with Internet banks.
posted on March 26, 2006 12:40:53 PM
agitprop is right, messy messy messy and guess who could go to jail? the good ole US of A citizen falling for such a scam or tries to scam them back. That is why I put all the not legal not recommended and disclaimer on my post but would sure be funny if the scam-mer fell for a sub scam even if you didn't go through with it. I like the idea of turning the information over to the FBI if he did fall for it. Would be just too funny to catch a scammer.
I hear they are cracking down on these scams but they are so all over the place I would think it hard to trace the bums very easily.
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posted on March 28, 2006 10:48:02 AM
Tell him you have a $15 million secret account from General Ramalama, who died recently. You would like to send it to him and split the proceeds, all you need is his bank account number.
posted on March 28, 2006 01:48:18 PM
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