Russican Scam; They got me...
It sounded too good to be true at first...
I was ICQ'd and asked by a "lady" in "Russia" to accept a payment via PayPal from one of her "clients" in the United States. As a result of doing so, I would earn a receiving fee of 20% or some outrageous amount in the end of total amount being received. Claimed she worked for AnnStudio.org!
I asked why she needed me to receive the money... and she stated that Russia is a PayPal blacklisted country so they are not allowed to receive payments there.
After a lot of thought and confusion, I decided to give it a try one time and see what would happen - that was my first mistake.....
I said okay, send away... and I received a $230 PayPal payment. I was then asked to take my cut, then minus paypal fees and western union fees, and send the remaining to "Ukraine" or whatever via Western Union.
Before releasing the funds to the Ukraine, I e-mailed the guy "client" from the United States to confirm his identity and purchase. So, I emailed him using his paypal email address that was used to send me the initial $230. He replied with a yes, "I ordered a Perl Script Tweak" and received what I am paying for..." - therefore, I proceeded on thinking everything was gravy... so I released the funds to a man in the Ukraine and kept like $45.
This transaction was completed on November 11th, 2005... well - today, I get an email from PayPal stating that a chargeback has been requested for the transaction and that $223.06 is being held until the dispute is over with. I emailed PayPal all of this info, with my exact words to and from the "client".
To cut to the chase... it was too good to be true, I think both me and the so-called "client" got fucked over... however, I'm the one that is paying for the damage of someone else having their paypal, etc hacked into.
I'm now a - $230.00 over this bullshit.... do not EVER trust a foreigner over the Web... and NEVER EVER do any favors for Russians online.
A well thought out scam.... holy cow.
I've learned that I was dumb in making such a decision to help out... and I have decided to report this to the government.
It's late... I better get some sleep - so I can go dream about making a little money to pay this fucker back who obviously had his email/PayPal broken into.
I was ICQ'd and asked by a "lady" in "Russia" to accept a payment via PayPal from one of her "clients" in the United States. As a result of doing so, I would earn a receiving fee of 20% or some outrageous amount in the end of total amount being received. Claimed she worked for AnnStudio.org!
I asked why she needed me to receive the money... and she stated that Russia is a PayPal blacklisted country so they are not allowed to receive payments there.
After a lot of thought and confusion, I decided to give it a try one time and see what would happen - that was my first mistake.....
I said okay, send away... and I received a $230 PayPal payment. I was then asked to take my cut, then minus paypal fees and western union fees, and send the remaining to "Ukraine" or whatever via Western Union.
Before releasing the funds to the Ukraine, I e-mailed the guy "client" from the United States to confirm his identity and purchase. So, I emailed him using his paypal email address that was used to send me the initial $230. He replied with a yes, "I ordered a Perl Script Tweak" and received what I am paying for..." - therefore, I proceeded on thinking everything was gravy... so I released the funds to a man in the Ukraine and kept like $45.
This transaction was completed on November 11th, 2005... well - today, I get an email from PayPal stating that a chargeback has been requested for the transaction and that $223.06 is being held until the dispute is over with. I emailed PayPal all of this info, with my exact words to and from the "client".
To cut to the chase... it was too good to be true, I think both me and the so-called "client" got fucked over... however, I'm the one that is paying for the damage of someone else having their paypal, etc hacked into.
I'm now a - $230.00 over this bullshit.... do not EVER trust a foreigner over the Web... and NEVER EVER do any favors for Russians online.
A well thought out scam.... holy cow.
I've learned that I was dumb in making such a decision to help out... and I have decided to report this to the government.
It's late... I better get some sleep - so I can go dream about making a little money to pay this fucker back who obviously had his email/PayPal broken into.
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