I DO have a web site and online store. And I make a significant number of international sales. The key to detecting the scammers is when they don't make ANY mention of what I am actually selling, especially telling me to send them my web URL. Obviously if they have no idea what I make, but they want to buy some anyway, they must be scammers.
Jon
What people get convicted is participating in money laundering schemes. Such as the ones where you receive email "we offer you a job to send and receive money".
i
She deposited the fraudulent check, and did a couple other stupid things the scammer asked her to.
Definitely. Or they request something totally unrelated to what you do have for sale. I have a list on a personal website of HP semiconductor part numbers to OEM. I get emails from scammers wanting to order 10,000 of a germanium transistor HP used in the '60s.
I always "offer" them the same thing, a solid concrete drill press.
i
Can you use a Heisenberg microscope ?
Best Regards Tom.
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I'm not certain.
--Winston
Rich, you're either very naive or very stupid if you think the probability that the check "turns out to be good" exceeds 0.00001%.
Geeze Larry. Mark Wieber, who my AL Post can't find in the National records database, is a rootin' tootin' RumpRanger/Ex-Cop and has a "Ranch" large enough to bury folks with the back hoe he doesn't have. Why would he possibly be afraid of a "skinny" with a friend?
I think you, Wieber and Wes have a big yellow streak running right up your backs. Tom Gardner as well.
[list snipped -- why give the grifters a free education in English grammar?]
There's at least one more that you missed.
Maybe one of his boyfriends use a roofie on him last night. It would explain his low-minded rant there, the loser.
IICY?
-- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. -- Doris Lessing
Definitely a scam. As others have noted, it can be fun to engage these people as long as you know what you're doing.
Related but still OT question: The local Craigslist has a bunch of cars for sale at ridiculously low prices; a 2007 Toyota Corolla for $2600, etc. What exactly are the people running these ads expecting to get? How does this sort of scam work?
-- Best -- Terry
"I am on vacation in Burkina Faso; My assistant will ship this car to you for no shipping cost; I guarantee your satisfaction; I only accept Western Union.".
Maybe they're Katrina refurbs from Nawlins. Run Away!
-- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. -- Doris Lessing
That would depend a lot on your property. My Grandparents are buried on mine.
??? I was just wondering why you gun nuts are such cowards..... Actually, I'm not wondering at all.
Overcompensating for a shot penis?
I think he used Gunner's grinder to remove it.
OOOOOOwwww!
That's why he's too asshamed to return it.
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