Re: THE SCAMMERS ARE STILL OUT THERE.

Posted by Mike On 2010/1/10 15:52:40

I have a boat for sale on ebay/craigslist right now and a set of wheels for my father in law. 3 scammers so far (like 3 days) saying they'll send a check for the whole amount plus shipping and i pay the shipper, etc.

I said cool and can't wait and i'll take the ad down when the check gets here, make it out to me and here's my address.


I expect to get a nice collection of fake bank checks shortly that i can frame and tell stories about.

There WAS that one time that a scammer offered to buy a laptop off our company for $1500 (300 over asking price) with a stolen credit card. We ran it and it cleared and shipped a 15 year old broken laptop to africa and they paid $300 in customs fees to pick it up and accept it.

The merchant processor said later it was stolen and we said "well, we're out a laptop! that's what we pay you for" Our processor and the credit card company ate it, we got the 1500 minus processing fees and the 50 bucks we mailed to the poor lady who's card got stolen (to cover her liability) and minus shipping. All in all a nice days work and profit AND the scammers got screwed out of $300, and the little old lady got her 50 to break even.

Edit: They did it all through TTY for the deaf relay services. We used to get like 1 call a week trying that scam with us. After that, 5 years later, we haven't received another call.