What the heck !!!!

What is with these people from Indoniesa!. I'm selling a Nikon F5 on ebay
and I've had at least four people from Indonesia contact me with off the
wall offers to buy the camera from me. When I mean off the wall - the camera
is listed for USA $1200.00. These people contact me with offers of US
$1700.00, $1400.00, $1800.00. It clearly states that the "buy it now" price
is ONLY $1200.00. They only want to pay with credit card. I tell them to
send the payment to me via online service because that is the only way I can
accept credit card payments. They say no. They would rather pay by credit
card by manually giving me the credit card info through email - because it
is more secure!. Then I would have to manually scan the info on a credit
card machine!. And get this, they will only do this if I "promise" to
destroy the information after I enter in the manual credit card machine.
Isn't it more secure to enter the credit card info into an online service
provider and send me the payment?. This way I don't know anything about them
or their credit card. I just receive the payment. BTW - who uses manual
credit card machines these days anyway?. Well, I never hear back from these
people after I say I can only accept credit cards through on line payment.

Nikon D1 wrote:
What is with these people from Indoniesa!. I'm selling a Nikon F5 on ebay
and I've had at least four people from Indonesia contact me with off the
wall offers to buy the camera from me. When I mean off the wall - the camera
is listed for USA $1200.00. These people contact me with offers of US
$1700.00, $1400.00, $1800.00. It clearly states that the "buy it now" price
is ONLY $1200.00. They only want to pay with credit card. I tell them to
send the payment to me via online service because that is the only way I can
accept credit card payments. They say no. They would rather pay by credit
card by manually giving me the credit card info through email - because it
is more secure!. Then I would have to manually scan the info on a credit
card machine!. And get this, they will only do this if I "promise" to
destroy the information after I enter in the manual credit card machine.
Isn't it more secure to enter the credit card info into an online service
provider and send me the payment?. This way I don't know anything about them
or their credit card. I just receive the payment. BTW - who uses manual
credit card machines these days anyway?. Well, I never hear back from these
people after I say I can only accept credit cards through on line payment.




That is funny. Unless I am mistaken, e-mail is the most insecure way to
send credit card information. I suppose some people don't care if the
number is stolen... AGAIN.

"Nikon D1" wrote in
:

What is with these people from Indoniesa!. I'm selling a Nikon F5 on
ebay and I've had at least four people from Indonesia contact me with
off the wall offers to buy the camera from me. When I mean off the
wall - the camera is listed for USA $1200.00. These people contact me
with offers of US $1700.00, $1400.00, $1800.00. It clearly states
that the "buy it now" price is ONLY $1200.00. They only want to pay
with credit card. I tell them to send the payment to me via online
service because that is the only way I can accept credit card
payments. They say no. They would rather pay by credit card by
manually giving me the credit card info through email - because it is
more secure!. Then I would have to manually scan the info on a credit
card machine!. And get this, they will only do this if I "promise" to
destroy the information after I enter in the manual credit card
machine. Isn't it more secure to enter the credit card info into an
online service provider and send me the payment?. This way I don't
know anything about them or their credit card. I just receive the
payment. BTW - who uses manual credit card machines these days
anyway?. Well, I never hear back from these people after I say I can
only accept credit cards through on line payment.

It's called 'stolen credit card numbers'. Not to mention the possible
scam of denying the transaction, once the bill comes in at the end of the
month, because the amount charged is different from that advertised, thus
implicating *you* in CC fraud.

There's always a scam of the month, or even hour. If it sounds funny,
stay the hell away.


- Al.

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Online photo gallery at www.wading-in.net

definitely not kosher.....

You'll also notice that a lot of big sellers in their ads say they will ship
worldwide EXCEPT to Indonesia, no exceptions. Now I wonder why that is.

"Nikon D1" wrote in message
...
What is with these people from Indoniesa!. I'm selling a Nikon F5 on ebay
and I've had at least four people from Indonesia contact me with off the
wall offers to buy the camera from me. When I mean off the wall - the
camera
is listed for USA $1200.00. These people contact me with offers of US
$1700.00, $1400.00, $1800.00. It clearly states that the "buy it now"
price
is ONLY $1200.00. They only want to pay with credit card. I tell them to
send the payment to me via online service because that is the only way I
can
accept credit card payments. They say no. They would rather pay by credit
card by manually giving me the credit card info through email - because it
is more secure!. Then I would have to manually scan the info on a credit
card machine!. And get this, they will only do this if I "promise" to
destroy the information after I enter in the manual credit card machine.
Isn't it more secure to enter the credit card info into an online service
provider and send me the payment?. This way I don't know anything about
them
or their credit card. I just receive the payment. BTW - who uses manual
credit card machines these days anyway?. Well, I never hear back from
these
people after I say I can only accept credit cards through on line payment.

Oh ,I'm sure there a credit card numbers stolen all over the world but for
some reason those people from Indonesia make it VERY obvious that they have
a credit card scam going on. Just be careful.


"Hickster0711" wrote in message
...
I'm missing something here. I've seen, "will not ship to Indonesia"
several
times also, but is this the only place CCs are stolen? Taking a CC over
the
phone is nuts anywhere, but why only Indonesia? Bob Hickey

I made the mistake of checking "will ship internationally" when selling a
top of the line Sony Vio laptop new in box....
Actually I use SAPro to list my auctions to e b a y so that was just the
default.

I got about 5-10 of those a day. I helped kick lots of users off that
week....lol

It's a scam don't fall for it. Just like the guy recently on the bay from
"Spain" (even though all the ID's he uses are reged to the US) that is
listing for sale S-2 Finpix, D 60, Kodak 14 N's etc.....will all stock
pictures along with other high end stuff. (like 300 of them) this guy stole
user's ID's and is going off of their feedback. If it's too good to be true
then stop and think about it a while longer!


--
Adam N
www.acmeresale.com
eBay ID: AcmeResale


"focusclick" wrote in message
...
Oh ,I'm sure there a credit card numbers stolen all over the world but for
some reason those people from Indonesia make it VERY obvious that they
have
a credit card scam going on. Just be careful.


"Hickster0711" wrote in message
...
I'm missing something here. I've seen, "will not ship to Indonesia"
several
times also, but is this the only place CCs are stolen? Taking a CC over
the
phone is nuts anywhere, but why only Indonesia? Bob Hickey