Jon Elson wrote:

On 12/08/2010 07:51 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:



This scam has been going on for years, maybe a decade to hook idiots
like you. If it was a legitimate it wouldn't use a cookie cutter
scammer script. I get the damn things from people wanting to 'Buy from
your company', then they ask for the URL of my business website. I don't
have a company, or a business website.



I DO have a web site and online store. And I make a significant number
of international sales. The key to detecting the scammers is when they
don't make ANY mention of what I am actually selling, especially telling
me to send them my web URL. Obviously if they have no idea what I make,
but they want to buy some anyway, they must be scammers.


Definitely. Or they request something totally unrelated to what you
do have for sale. I have a list on a personal website of HP
semiconductor part numbers to OEM. I get emails from scammers wanting
to order 10,000 of a germanium transistor HP used in the '60s.

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