[Fwd: Re: [GreenKeys] New SCAM on eBay!]

[H.E.Robert]

All,

 If you get USPS money orders, the real ones also have a mylar tape 
embedded like the new $20's that says "USPS" and, many people don't know 
that USPS Money Orders are "negotiable" at the Post Office.  So if you 
have any doubt, cash them there and eliminate the banks.  The Post 
office will deal with the fraud, whereas the Bank will take your funds 
back, with no recourse!

Just Bob!

John Lawson wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
> 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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