Scam from Ebay buyer?
Jinx86
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This is the third email he has sent me over the last week. He asked if I would be interested in doing some more work with him and I said I maybe interested depending on the details. This buyer has purchased only one coin from me high dollar/grade.
***************Heres the email
I'm leaving on 3rd of April, and I will return on 5th of May. If this should
not conflict with your timetable, this is what the task involves:
By my own business and full time job, I also work part time with ********.org. and as other European merchants that want to speed up the orders and improve the quality of service,they have a customer manager for every region of the world.
Basically, here is what I have to do for each client: First I am alerted when they (**********) need to receive a payment from their client from my region (USA), (all clients pay by bank draft, also called wire transfer, to my account)
After the client has completed the deposit to my account, I have to check my
account to see the deposit and confirm it together with the amount.
Then, after the deposit has cleared, I keep the 5% (my percentage) and I send the amount due (total amount minus 5%) by Money Orders or WU.
Of course, you will keep the entire percentage for the period that I will be away that’s 1.000$ monthly plus depending on the firm sales, should be about $700 per week,If you think you can do it, I can ask**************- the Managing Director,to send you full info.
Please let me know at your earliest convenience,I want to straighten out this before I leave,and please email me your phone number so George can contact you.
Thank you.
***************Heres the email
I'm leaving on 3rd of April, and I will return on 5th of May. If this should
not conflict with your timetable, this is what the task involves:
By my own business and full time job, I also work part time with ********.org. and as other European merchants that want to speed up the orders and improve the quality of service,they have a customer manager for every region of the world.
Basically, here is what I have to do for each client: First I am alerted when they (**********) need to receive a payment from their client from my region (USA), (all clients pay by bank draft, also called wire transfer, to my account)
After the client has completed the deposit to my account, I have to check my
account to see the deposit and confirm it together with the amount.
Then, after the deposit has cleared, I keep the 5% (my percentage) and I send the amount due (total amount minus 5%) by Money Orders or WU.
Of course, you will keep the entire percentage for the period that I will be away that’s 1.000$ monthly plus depending on the firm sales, should be about $700 per week,If you think you can do it, I can ask**************- the Managing Director,to send you full info.
Please let me know at your earliest convenience,I want to straighten out this before I leave,and please email me your phone number so George can contact you.
Thank you.
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steer clear.
this one is very old.
the funds you receive will eventually be reversed and the money you send via WU or MO can't be reversed. They make money by scamming you.
don't contact eBay first. Contact the internet fraud dept. of the FBI and Secret Service, let them know. Give it a couple of days, then contact eBay. This is 100% a scam.
(although the cynic in me says the FBI/SS won't run with it immediately even though you have contact info for the crook. so you may just go ahead and tell ebay and us
PS: PM me the eBay id for the blocked bidders list! Please!
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<< <i>classic money transfer scam. >>
Just bought my wifes grandmother a computer and warning her of all the dangers online. Shes almost afraid to open emails from people she knows...she called me to ask if I had sent her something before she opened it.
but if they received a coin (wasn't to a mailbox store was it?) you have their info.
maybe they don't fear the probably non-acting FBI//SS. contact them anyway. This one seems easy.
PS still need that eBay id. shoot me a PM
Is he from Kenya and will send you lottery winnings if you run them you account?
I toyed with someone running an almost identical scam when I was selling an item on Craigslist, just to see how far I could string them along.
Apparently, there are enough gullible people out there to keep the scam worth continuing to run.
<< <i>Is he from Kenya and will send you lottery winnings if you run them you account? >>
Or nigeria
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It's the bait.
Their scam is looking for a victim that will "check my account to see the deposit and confirm it"
then send a MO or WU. Their hope is that the victim thinks it cleared when he sees it in his account.
In reality it can be reversed after it's seen in the account and the MO or WU that the victim sent will have been cashed by then and can't be reversed.
It said the 5% would be about $700 per week so the victim would have used MO or WU to send about $56,000 in real money if it lasted a month.
The scam ends when the victims bank tells the victim that "those wire transfers have been reversed".
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Buyer wants your item at your price and wants to send you a money order for the item plus $xxxx.xx. Says he will have his courier (friend, relative, employee, whatever) pick it up locally because they need the cash for something. Buyer wants you to cash the money order, give the person picking it up the $xxxx.xx less a percentage for your trouble. Money order clears when you cash it but ends up being reversed or charged back. You are out the item sold and the money you sold it for plus the cash you gave the guy picking it up.
Definite scam here.
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I thought money orders could be cashed at places like 7 11 ?
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<< <i>
I thought money orders could be cashed at places like 7 11 ?
>>
Exactly, they can easily be cashed.
In this deal it sounds like they pay the victim with a bank draft that can be reversed but the victim is the one that pays with a money order or western union which the scamer can cash easily and can't be reversed.
This might not even be from the ebay seller or if it was they might use one normal deal to build confidence and it's no loss for them if they bought something they wanted or something they can re-sell.
Since a bank draft is like a check the deal is like the one in the link:
fraud.org Link
They tell you to wire money to them after you’ve deposited the check. If you’re selling something, they say they’ll pay you by having someone in the U.S. who owes them money send you a check. It will be for more than the sale price; you deposit the check, keep what you’re owed, and wire the rest to them. If it’s part of a work-at-home scheme, they may claim that you’ll be processing checks from their “clients.” You deposit the checks and then wire them the money minus your “pay.” Or they may send you a check for more than your pay “by mistake” and ask you to wire them the excess. In the sweepstakes and foreign money offer variations of the scam, they tell you to wire them money for taxes, customs, bonding, processing, legal fees, or other expenses that must be paid before you can get the rest of the money.
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<< <i>Yup, looks like a scam. At least he bought a high $ coin from you though!
let me guess where he is getting the money to buy coins (to launder the money)