Other sort of frauds

[kwngian]

There are numerous discussions on credit card frauds but just wondering anyone has any encounter with other kinds of frauds like Letter of Credit, drafts etc.

Any experience to share?

[icedout]

yeah, i've had people order something cod, give ups the money order and then put a stop payment on it before it gets to us, thereby keeping the money.. it was on a wholesale order so it hurt quite a bit.

[travmed]

I encountered something with paypal. I was running a store that sold PC games and someone ordered 3 copies of a title. He sent me an email asking me to just send him the key's as he already had the media to install it. He said he was running a PC gaming cafe and just needed more key's so more people could play on the net.

Well, I sent him the keys but for some reason left the opened boxes on the and never looked twice. So, about 20 days later I get something from paypal saying the charge on the card was disputed by the customer. Since I didn't ship a physical item I couldn't prove it right away and paypal said the chances were slim I would get the money back.

I send all of my email between myself and the customer to paypal and after 5 months the money was credited back to my account.

Sadly for the customer, when this all started, I called the game company and gave them all 3 keys which they disabled through their system so no one could play net games with it. Oh well.

[PCInk]

I sometimes get cheques in the post which are stolen cheques. It can be quite difficult to spot. Particularly the last set where tremendously difficult - two cheques, one a US cheque for over $8000 and the other a UK cheque for nearly £10000. Both in the same envelope, sent by someone from a different name from either of the cheques, and sent by international recorded delivery from Nigeria. He stated what his order was, but failed to state quantities!

I get a lot of credit card attempts, cheques coming through fraudulently and plenty of requests for prices of high quantities of goods. One way I have found to spot this is to quote a high price:

"I want 100 pieces of your widgets. What price can you do?"
<I take a look at the price, £24.99 is on the site>
"I can do them for £25.50 each for you"
"Good. Where do I send my cheque to"
<temptation is to say, [Local] Police Station, [Town],...>

No real customer would be that stupid. Well...

Or take their phone number and call them back. Ask for someone completely different from the name you gave them. They always say: 'I am him!'.

[jsinger]

Gee I wonder how you could have spotted a problem with this?

"Both in the same envelope, sent by someone from a different name from either of the cheques, and sent by international recorded delivery from **Nigeria.**"

[PCInk]

Yeah, it took ages for me to figure it out! I went to open the letter and noticed the stamps, then I realised! And later on, I opened the letter! LOL!

[jsinger]

Here's a new scam. Ads are run to recruit employees (Those "Ebay is Hiring" ads, I guess). The recruits transship valuable merchandise to Russia and similar places while keeping some loot for their "commission."

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