On 11 Feb 2005 at 20:16, Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> Seems that E-Bay is a great fishing hole for crooks and
> fraud. I've always said that E-Bay was like the wild, wild west with everybody
> having the potential of blowing you away. On one $1700.00 cash transaction I got
> about nine counterfeit $100.00 bills. The Post office marked them and declared
> that I was lucky I hadn't taken them to the bank because they would have
> confiscated them on the spot. I contacted the guy that gave me the bogus bills
> and he returned the car and I gave him back his wastepaper. Be warned that
> anytime you sell something you need to get identification, addresses, phone
> numbers, license plate numbers and anything else you can get just in case the
> transaction turns and bites you. It's just welcome to the world we live in
> ............... not much you can do about it except take extra caution.

You're right about EBay - I've only sold a few things, but I listed an item (non VW)
this week, and within 2 hours had an offer from someone wanted to send me money
by Western Union, and send to a friend's son in Nigeria! By the next day, I had two
more suspicious offers.
I am just glad we have this list, where at least we can deal with some people we
trust, and even check their history in the archives if it's a name we don't recognize. I
just wonder when we'll have to worry about Vanagon list identity theft...

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Shawn Wright
I.T. Manager
Shawnigan Lake School