How about a favor?
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:49 am
I tell ya, the trouble a guy can get into if he isn't careful. For 2 days I've been working with a contact in Australia about buying $840 worth of parts from our store. For 2 days I thought he was the 'real deal.' Then when I'm ready to accept payment, I get the following e-mail asking for a favor along with his payment.
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"Thank you for the email,I want you to help me. Charge another $600:00 from my card to the shipping agent who will be coming to pick up my ordered items from you. The $600:00 that will be sent to my freight forwarder is for the shipping of my order and other items i ordered from different part of the country which is to be picked up by him and should be deducted from my credit card.Also, I'm compensating you with the sum of $90:00 for the transfer fee and for your efforts. Please note that i should have given the shipping agency my credit card for him to deduct the shipping funds but he told me that he doesn't have the facilities to charge or debit credit card , so that's why i bring my vote of confidence in you and i want you to assist me in this measure, so i want you to transfer the funds to him after you have make the charges and the money charged from my credit card is in your account,then you can now make the transfer to the agent via western union.i will have love to do this my self but there are no western union here around me cos i am out of town to monitor my estate construction at a remote village,So the charges you'll make on my credit card will be:
Your Fee:$844.50
Agent fee with shipping fare: $600:00.
Transfer Fee plus Your Compensation: $90:00
Total:1534,5
Note that my credit card will be charged for the amounts above .Please do get back to me if you are in the office right now so that you can process my Credit card for the order.
I await your quick response.
Kind Regards.
Mario"
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So what do you think -- shall I return the favor (in the end the favor will probably only COST me $1534.50! LOL.) I hear about stuff like this happening all the time, but the is the first time I've had someone try to scam me (in this fashion anyway!) We deal with foreign accounts from time to time, and until I got the above e-mail, it seemed legit.
Gees,
Mark
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"Thank you for the email,I want you to help me. Charge another $600:00 from my card to the shipping agent who will be coming to pick up my ordered items from you. The $600:00 that will be sent to my freight forwarder is for the shipping of my order and other items i ordered from different part of the country which is to be picked up by him and should be deducted from my credit card.Also, I'm compensating you with the sum of $90:00 for the transfer fee and for your efforts. Please note that i should have given the shipping agency my credit card for him to deduct the shipping funds but he told me that he doesn't have the facilities to charge or debit credit card , so that's why i bring my vote of confidence in you and i want you to assist me in this measure, so i want you to transfer the funds to him after you have make the charges and the money charged from my credit card is in your account,then you can now make the transfer to the agent via western union.i will have love to do this my self but there are no western union here around me cos i am out of town to monitor my estate construction at a remote village,So the charges you'll make on my credit card will be:
Your Fee:$844.50
Agent fee with shipping fare: $600:00.
Transfer Fee plus Your Compensation: $90:00
Total:1534,5
Note that my credit card will be charged for the amounts above .Please do get back to me if you are in the office right now so that you can process my Credit card for the order.
I await your quick response.
Kind Regards.
Mario"
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So what do you think -- shall I return the favor (in the end the favor will probably only COST me $1534.50! LOL.) I hear about stuff like this happening all the time, but the is the first time I've had someone try to scam me (in this fashion anyway!) We deal with foreign accounts from time to time, and until I got the above e-mail, it seemed legit.
Gees,
Mark