Re: place order

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On 15 Sep 2004, debian-laptop@lists.debian.org wrote:
> Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote:
>> On Wednesday 15 September 2004 06:06, tijani jojo wrote:
>>
>>> hello,
>>> i want to place an order of computer laptop pentium 4 i need about 5
>>> pcs i want u to calculate the total price of the laptops with the shipping
>> What? Is this guy for real or is this some kind of Nigerian scam?
>> Anders
>>
> Some kind of scam...

The general pattern is that someone steals a credit card number, then
uses that to "purchase" merchandise ... except that suddenly they need
you to handle sending money to both them and someone else.

So, you get the large sum of money from them and forward a smaller sum
of money to someone else on their behalf.

Then the bank notices the fraudulent transaction and takes away the
large sum of money from you.  

The small sum of money, however, is now in the hands of the fraudsters,
and you have no recourse to getting it back.

    Daniel

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