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Well, if you enjoyed that as much as I did, you may also enjoy the real life adventures told by scambaiters at 419 Eater. Really, it is quite entertaining stuff if you enjoy seeing takers get taken.

And good for you Army soldier for catching the scams before they got you.
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Old 01-24-2012, 04:29 PM
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We see a lot of Nigerian scams here too. I have weeded them all out purely based on their grammar. If the grammar used does not match somebody who speaks English as a first language themselves, then I treat it as scam immediately.



When google provides better translations for fraudsters then I will have to up my game even more.

I don't suffer from road rage or anything of the like, but I do want to sucker punch these idiots.

Sometimes it's hard to tell these days though, because even people who speak English as their primary language, can't speak English lol.
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Old 01-24-2012, 05:48 PM
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Any email you get from PayPal will start out with Hello, and then your full name.

When you log onto PayPal, just below the tool bar will be....Welcome, and then your full name in a gold font.

I had a shady sounding deal a couple years ago, and called PayPal, they told me they always use your full name in any emails they send you, and on their web page when you open it up.

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Old 01-24-2012, 08:58 PM
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I was going to post the ppppowerbook link too. If I post something on ebay and get the regular process, no questions, no special instructions, no nothing, great. Sale goes through. If not, I reply firmly but politely that I only ship in the US. Usually they stop trying after that.

For Craigslist, I had a guy the other day that demanded everything be COD. Said he was disabled, and blah blah blah, COD worked for him. Wouldn't do paypal when I asked. Responded to everything with a
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(Does he not mean the very? Is he really only thanking me a little, what's the deal?) He had a local address though, so I did the COD thing, against my better judgment. A couple days after I ship the item, I get the check for the full amount from the post office, so everything worked out. The stuff was $10 plus shipping (plastic models, unopened) and I wanted them out of the house more than I wanted the money, so if I got taken it wasn't a big problem.

For larger ticket items, the standards are higher. One grammatical error, and you're out. If you want my stuff, then write like an intelligent adult, and not like a teenage monkey trying SMS.
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