[GreenKeys] New SCAM on eBay!

[Don Robert House]

The sad part is, some of those folks who sent money to Nigeria have  
actually gone to Nigeria and have disappeared like Natalie Holloway.

Don


On 1 Aug 2005, at 5:32 PM, John Lawson wrote:

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> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Don Robert House wrote:
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>> Do you sell on eBay?
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>   Yup, quite a bit on/off.
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>> If anyone buys something from you on eBay and wants to send you  
>> USPS money orders for a larger sum,
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>    Nothing more should at this point, except to turn the matter  
> over to eBay and the USPS Inspectors.  There is no valid reason for  
> anyone to want to pay you an excess amount in one medium, and then  
> have you return the 'overage' to them via another medium - unless  
> there is dishonesty involved.
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>   The same goes for offers of credit card overages, depositing  
> 'cashier's checks' (which finally bounce sometimes weeks later,  
> leaving YOU responsible for making them good, and in general  
> "laundering" some unknown person's money in the context of an  
> online deal.
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>   And it's further mind-boggling that folks fall for this crap,  
> every week, week in and week out.  "Hello Mr. _fill-in-the-blank_ -  
> you don't know me but I've contacted you to help me get  
> $170,083,962,765.51 out of Nigeria - 10% is yours to keep and I  
> just need all of your personal banking details and a "transaction  
> fee" of a few thousand to get things started.  Oops, more bribes  
> needed, just another couple of thousand. Sorry, a snag with the  
> Finance Department - please wire four thousand at once, the 170  
> billion will the come in next Tuesday....
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>   And then they're gone, with your money, and you're too  
> embarrassed to even 'fess up and report them - fat lot of good  
> it'll do, anyway.
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>  I hear P.T. Barnum  laughing in the backround...
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> Cheers
>
> John KB6SCO
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> PS: Northern California Greenkeyers: I'll have a Mod 26, Mod 14,  
> -1060 scope, and a mechanical QBF at this weekend's Livermore, CA  
> swapmeet, starts at 7:00 AM Sunday the 7th at Robertson Park in  
> Livermore, see www.livermoreark.org/swap/swap.html   for details.    
> 73!
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