Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20

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Subject: [Leica] OT: eBay Scams on high-dollar items
From: leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Tue Mar 20 23:07:20 2007
References: <NGEGLGICHGNIDFELPPDBOEIKKLAA.jsluss@hughes.net> <01bb01c76aff$a0232110$e0696330$@net> <9a3abe1778d6052eb45c4a16c24a2424@woh.rr.com>
 
My compassion for people who are so naive is quite limited. Where there's a 
ninny, there's a swindler. It always needs both of them for a scam.
Didier


>One of our bank's customers just got taken in a Nigerian scam.  Thought 
>they were getting a $30000 Bimmer for $9000.  Duh!  Daily we have customers 
>trying to deposit lottery "winnings" checks from contests they never 
>entered.  Always a scam but they think somehow they have hit it big.  
>Customers are giving out their debit card numbers and PINS like crazy after 
>receiving fake emails from banks and paypal.
>
>I have never seen anything like this wholesale thievery (and consumer 
>foolishness given all the publicity of these scams) in 30 years in banking.
>
>Rob McClure
In reply to: Message from jsluss at hughes.net (John D. Sluss) ([Leica] OT: eBay)
Message from jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] OT: eBay Scams on high-dollar items)
Message from rmcclure2 at woh.rr.com (Rob McClure) ([Leica] OT: eBay Scams on high-dollar items)