[GreenKeys] New SCAM on eBay!

[John Lawson]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Don Robert House wrote:

> Do you sell on eBay?

   Yup, quite a bit on/off.


>
> If anyone buys something from you on eBay and wants to send you USPS money 
> orders for a larger sum,

    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.

   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.

   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....

   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.

  I hear P.T. Barnum  laughing in the backround...

Cheers

John KB6SCO

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