On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:39 -0400, David Zakar wrote: > As Judah was saying, they've become rather more sophisticated over time, > which is probably a more worthwhile discussion. When I was doing some > eBay selling, I received numerous "Nigerian scammer"-style emails giving > me a "too good to be true" deal. Interestingly, eBay sent along > accompanying emails warning me that this was a suspected fraudster!
I got some of these as well, but I got one that I flat-out don't understand. I usually only accept PayPal on EBay, but this guy offered me like twice my asking price, wouldn't go through EBay, and wouldn't use PayPal. He said he could pay by credit card, however. He also wanted me to ship to somewhere in Indonesia. Now this I don't understand- if I get the money via credit card, then ship the item, how am I getting screwed? Is it just that he's probably using a stolen CC number, or is there something else going on? ~John
