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sm0ke
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
Posts: 3
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Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:34 pm |
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Wondering if I could get some guidance. Here's the scenario - online sales forum (ebay, whatever) scammer posts with offer to sell an item worth $10,000 for $5,000. I identify the scam (poster does not actually own the item) and offer to buy it knowing full well it's a scam with the intention of extracting some info from the scammer. Scammer asks for a wire transfer and provides me with his bank wire info (account name (his "wife's") and number, ABA number) so I can send the funds and provides a cell phone number to contact him.
Apart from reporting this to the police (which will likely go nowhere) is there something more I might consider doing?
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Robert Heinrich der 1.
Baiting Guru
Joined: 10 Oct 2010
Posts: 3877
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Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:46 pm |
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consider reporting the account to alan, and claim a piggy.
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119780
even if the police is not able to do something (international borders, restrictions...), alan has connections to close down bank accounts. |
_________________ Lagos - Accra - Kasoa (and back) 2x490km Lagos - Nairobi (and back) 2x ~5000km, Nairobi - Mbiri 2x130km on easter sunday, x12 , 6x Penisprint, Dai Teatime / Anderson Frank: but have been there since about 1hr plus no sign of them and was interrogated by the police and almost arrested
Team Eze, 2 lagos - cotonou and lagos - cotonou (he hated it).
The threatening is increasing day by day with different cursed of animals, and i don't know what to do now. ---- am angry for your head |
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Big Al
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Dec 2011
Posts: 5054
Location: Winter is Coming....
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:14 am |
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Yup, If you were supposed to send them money chances are the info is real.
Congrats on a Piggy if it goes through.
(Talk about falling into a shit house and coming out smelling like a rose? LOL) (Well, it is valentines) |
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deadk1ng
Underboss
Joined: 24 Oct 2011
Posts: 557
Location: Gulf Coast U.S.A
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 1:22 am |
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you must make sure that it IS a scammer...it's not cool getting an innocents accounts shutdown. |
_________________ x3 x2 Lagos ---> Cotonou 2/13/12, Lagos ---> Lome 2/22/12 Aaron Green
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sm0ke
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
Posts: 3
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:32 am |
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Thanks for the info. No question it's a scam - plenty of indicators and red flags, but the clincher is that when I asked for a better photo of the item the guy provided me an image he took off the internet. It's a pretty unique item and he stole the image from like the 5th website that comes up in Google. He's apparently not the brightest bulb on the tree (although he did at least rotate the image, I guess to try to throw me off the scent). |
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bearkat419
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 4445
Location: Houston, TX
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:32 pm |
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How are you baiting safely on ebay? Don't they require a valid credit card or bank account (which presumably is your real information) to sign up?
I'd start by hitting the "report to ebay" button.
And reading the stickies at the top of the page here |
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sm0ke
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 8:22 pm |
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Good point on safe baiting. The source isn't ebay, it's a much less formal marketplace type forum, but I hear you on the anonymity concern.
In any event, I have signed up for a mentor to assist moving forward with this guy, but maybe the answer is just to dump him and move on . . . |
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Robert Heinrich der 1.
Baiting Guru
Joined: 10 Oct 2010
Posts: 3877
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 8:29 pm |
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Big Al wrote: |
Congrats on a Piggy if it goes through.
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no If... send it, claim it. it's that easy. |
_________________ Lagos - Accra - Kasoa (and back) 2x490km Lagos - Nairobi (and back) 2x ~5000km, Nairobi - Mbiri 2x130km on easter sunday, x12 , 6x Penisprint, Dai Teatime / Anderson Frank: but have been there since about 1hr plus no sign of them and was interrogated by the police and almost arrested
Team Eze, 2 lagos - cotonou and lagos - cotonou (he hated it).
The threatening is increasing day by day with different cursed of animals, and i don't know what to do now. ---- am angry for your head |
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BearSeason
Elite Baiter
Joined: 19 Jun 2011
Posts: 1066
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Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:27 am |
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In any event, I have signed up for a mentor to assist moving forward with this guy |
Well, hello there. |
_________________ THIS IS TO INFORM YOU THAT WE ARE DONE WITH ALL THIS YOUR CHILD'S PLAY...PLEASE IT IS ENOUGH. - Jeff
i can believe that all this will be happened to me why me why me / all my future had scatted - Rechel
you are a man that did not go to the four wall of any school at all. - Attorney Sarah Nan
U 2 go fuck yourself ! I don't need the money and stop emailing me please / BASTARD!!!! / fuck ur family
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Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
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Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:31 am |
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but maybe the answer is just to dump him and move on . . . |
Sounds like a good plan and welcome here.
Hiya, Bear. |
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x 6
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BearSeason
Elite Baiter
Joined: 19 Jun 2011
Posts: 1066
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Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:41 am |
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^Wandering away from the VD thread, are we? |
_________________ THIS IS TO INFORM YOU THAT WE ARE DONE WITH ALL THIS YOUR CHILD'S PLAY...PLEASE IT IS ENOUGH. - Jeff
i can believe that all this will be happened to me why me why me / all my future had scatted - Rechel
you are a man that did not go to the four wall of any school at all. - Attorney Sarah Nan
U 2 go fuck yourself ! I don't need the money and stop emailing me please / BASTARD!!!! / fuck ur family
<a href="/forum/donate.php">Where all the cool kids are.</a>
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Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
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Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:43 am |
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Occasionally....for some reason Rover expects me to monitor other threads, too |
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