Re: place order

[Tom Simons <Tom.Simons@gmail.com>]

I was surprised to find that the "large sum of money" which they send
to you can take the form of a bank cashier's check.  It may take
several days before your bank discovers that the check is no good, and
then sticks you for the amount.  The scammer hopes, of course, that
you have already sent him/her the "smaller sum of money".


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:32:06 +1000, Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:
> 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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