"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2010-10-04, Jon Elson wrote:
Ignoramus32343 wrote:
Very simple. They buy stuff with stolen credit cards, and pay extra
for shipping and ask you to wire the shipping fee to their "shipper"
(actually themselves). This is all what they want, they do not care to
get any turboejaculator hand pumps. They just want to get shipping fees
sent to them.

Ah ha! So, that's how the scam works. I was wondering, but didn't
bother to
investigate, I just dump the spam.

[ ... ]

They
may have gotten
my company out of some kind of list that indicates I sell electrical
gear. I had
to register as a government contractor to get paid for some units I'm
making, and

Don't bet on it. I get these too -- and I don't have *anything*
for sale -- just I'm the owner of my own ".com" domain, and they may
have gotten my e-mail address from there.

It is amazing some of the things that they seem to think that I
sell. :-)


I had one that wanted to buy 30,000 1/100A 3AG fuses, but didn't know
my company's name. That's understandable, since it was closed over 15
years ago.


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