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Eastern European scam merchants

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Try this out.Sign up for membership of eBay,then go and bid on a Sony Ericcson P800 phone.Just find one with 4-5 days to go before the auction closes,bid a silly little amount(the final price on one of these things is in excess of £300)and just wait for the e-mails to start arriving,typed in poor English,offering P800's for '250GBP',and wanting to use bank transfer only.Do these people think we are really that stupid?I've had the same e-mail sent to me five times,but each time the eBay user ID is different.When I check the feedback rating of that username,it may be a nice high number,but with no transactions within the last six months.On feedback profile was full of antique rifle parts and militaria,then all of a sudden this person is trying to flog me a brand new PDA phone!I don't think so somehow!They just hack the user ID of someone who hasn't traded for a while but has agood feedback profile.Give it a go,some of the e-mails you will get are nothing short of hilarious,and replying to them in an equally pidgin-english manner will usually get a response that gives the scammer away!

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Thursday, 17 July 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I WILL SMASH ANY FORUM FASSY WHO DARE COME DISRESPECT ME SLAVIC BRETREN TRUS!

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 17 July 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Eh?Does that mean you got a phone for sale?

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

does the name "Darek" mean anything to anyone here

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't that one of those evil robot creatures from Dr.Who,but with a cleft palette?

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

Not sure where to put this, but:

Paul Frampton, the particle physicist from the University of North Carolina (UNC), has been sentenced to four years and eight months in detention after being found guilty of drug-smuggling charges. Frampton, 68, was arrested at Buenos Aires airport on 23 January after authorities found 2 kg of cocaine in his checked luggage – drugs that he insists were not his. He was convicted on 21 November by a judge at a court in Buenos Aires after three days of hearings.

Frampton, a British-born US citizen with a DPhil from the University of Oxford, got into trouble after flying from North Carolina to Bolivia where he was expecting to meet 32-year-old Czech-born lingerie model Denise Milani, who he thought he had been chatting with on the internet. Frampton says he was instead met by a man who asked him to take what was supposedly Milani's suitcase to Buenos Aires, where she would then meet him.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/nov/22/paul-frampton-hit-by-56-month-drugs-sentence

― ILM Communication (seandalai), Monday, 26 November 2012 20:12 (thirteen years ago)


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