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    Posted: 18 Jul 06 at 3:26pm

Hmm, i wonder if there is anyway to scam the scammers. Could you not just accept their bankers draft, put it in the bank and wait for a couple of weeks before releasing the goods, and just ignore any requests to send money back. I'm not totally au fait with the sale of goods act, but i think only if the goods have been falsely described in the advert are you under any obligation to return the money, so whats the worst that can happen?

If the money does magicaly stay in your bank and the "assistant" never turns up you could be in with a bit of cash.
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and pigs will fly , if this would work the scammers would scam themselves .

 

old saying ,if it sounds too good to be true, doesn,t  end with , "might be " !

 

 
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Originally posted by Charlie

Hmm, i wonder if there is anyway to scam the scammers. Could you not just accept their bankers draft, put it in the bank and wait for a couple of weeks before releasing the goods, and just ignore any requests to send money back. I'm not totally au fait with the sale of goods act, but i think only if the goods have been falsely described in the advert are you under any obligation to return the money, so whats the worst that can happen?

If the money does magicaly stay in your bank and the "assistant" never turns up you could be in with a bit of cash.

 

The money won't!

At best it will simply be reclaimed (directly) by the issuing bank / FI and you will just see the dosh disappear.  At worst, the hevies arrive and "ask" for the dosh, and the boat, or you get wrapped up in a money laundering investigation, and that is really something you don't want ! 
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Originally posted by Scooby_simon

Originally posted by Charlie

Hmm, i wonder if there is anyway to scam the scammers. Could you not just accept their bankers draft, put it in the bank and wait for a couple of weeks before releasing the goods, and just ignore any requests to send money back. I'm not totally au fait with the sale of goods act, but i think only if the goods have been falsely described in the advert are you under any obligation to return the money, so whats the worst that can happen?

If the money does magicaly stay in your bank and the "assistant" never turns up you could be in with a bit of cash.

 

The money won't!

At best it will simply be reclaimed (directly) by the issuing bank / FI and you will just see the dosh disappear.  At worst, the hevies arrive and "ask" for the dosh, and the boat, or you get wrapped up in a money laundering investigation, and that is really something you don't want ! 

Or you find yourself being extradited to the US

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Funny,

 

No further correspondence.  

And I so thought I had sold my boat

seems she isn't so keen on actually talking to you.

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Just a thought

 

 

Why not ask them to send money by "western Union " or F*k orf .
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Originally posted by far canal

Just a thought

 

 

Why not ask them to send money by "western Union " or F*k orf .

 

Because westerm union is the most un-secure method of moving money around.  If anyone (and I mean anyone) offers WU, reject it.
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i think everyone has had this happen to them at some point or another i have been asked 3 times. The thing to do is to say can we discuss this on the phone and they never reply and if the email looks just a tiny bit dodgy and its from a free email like hotmail or yahoo then assume its a scam.
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I don't even reply as replying confirms the email address is active making you a target for spam
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I was quite impressed though when i got one of these Nigerian Princes actually hand writing a letter to me in person, explaining their difficulties, and if i was able to help them by sending a bit of money to release their huge stack of cash that was sitting in switzerland, they'd repay me hundred-fold or something along those lines.

It went straight into the rubbish bin of course, but still i was surprised somebody had bothered to hand write two pages rather than copy and paste an email.
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