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Title: International Money Laundering
Post by: theolodian on 27 September 2006, 19:13:18
Does anyone know any thing about this?  You know, maybe a 'friend'. ;)

My parents have a rental property in Florida.  They keep getting rental requests over the Internet where someone supposedly from the UK wants to rent the property, but they want to have someone else send a banker's draft from inside the US for more than the deposit.  They then want to be paid the remainder by us.  Then I suspect that they will want their deposit back too.  When we tell them that the deposit is non-refundable we never hear from them again.

Is this well known over here?
Title: Re: International Money Laundering
Post by: STMO123 on 27 September 2006, 19:19:38
Ye olde scam. Dont even communicate with them!


EDIT: If you were to go with this and send them the surplus by cheque, they would also have your name, sort code and account number.
Title: Re: International Money Laundering
Post by: TheBoy on 27 September 2006, 19:24:06
Yeah, common scam....
Title: Re: International Money Laundering
Post by: Markie on 27 September 2006, 19:29:12
Avoid and dont discuss / divulge info to them - its a popular ebay scam tooo!
Title: Re: International Money Laundering
Post by: theolodian on 27 September 2006, 19:34:46
I don't suppose that there is anywhere to report this stuff?  What about Yahoo if they use Yahoo accounts?
Title: Re: International Money Laundering
Post by: STMO123 on 27 September 2006, 19:43:09
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I don't suppose that there is anywhere to report this stuff?  What about Yahoo if they use Yahoo accounts?

Dont waste your time, Theo. Just make sure YOU dont get stung
Title: Re: International Money Laundering
Post by: Del Boy on 27 September 2006, 19:56:34
Yes m8 totally avoid
Title: Re: International Money Laundering
Post by: Kev on 27 September 2006, 19:59:02
Yep, get stuff like this all the time on eBay...the favourite..."I'm from Nigeria yada yada"...Piss Off.  >:(