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Originally posted by Living For Today
My mate runs a business selling plasma screens and the like. A few days ago there was an auction for a 60 inch panasonic plasma screen with no reserve. The seller had positive 980 feedback. We put a bid in of $1.000 and watched the item. It got up to $3,000 and then got pulled. I emailed the seller and she is in Italy and said she got her account suspended for trading outside of ebay to avoid fees.
Now its just impossible for us to believe this cannot be a scam. She is offering us the TV for 1500 euros which is about AU$2700.
This TV sells for AU$30,000 plus. I said if she sells it for that place then I will fly over to milan to inspect the tv and take it home with me.
Here is the email I got back.
Ok you can come here to take up you plasma but first i must see that you have the money and i dont lose my time and my buyers to waiting you to come in Milano so lock here is my deal
So just send the money there through Western Union
but instead of sending the money to my name send the money using your best friends name, your fathers name or just use your own name as the receiver. (Ex. Sender Name: My name, Receiver Name: My name- send the money to yourself).After you will make the transfer you will receive a MTCN [money transfer control number] but you will not give me the MTCN.Without the transfer on my name and wýtih out the MCTN [money transfer control number] i can not pick up the money.This way nobody in the world other than you could ever pick up the money.After that you will e-mail me the SENDER NAME and the RECEIVER NAME to allow me to verify online if the money are sent.(www.westernunion.com). When you will come to Milano you will pick up the money and pay me.Let me know your decision asap.
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I cant figure out how she will scam me out of my bling bling $$$. Its just impossible to believe. Whats your opinions?
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well once you send the money and confirm that you are the only person able to retrieve the money, they will either
a) have an inside job at one of the western unions so that they can just pick up the money.
b) have enough information about making fake ids that they can make an authentic form of identification(seeing as how they have done this scam, they probably know exactly what information they will need).
this is a scam.