From: barry tuttleman (btuttleman@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Dec 12 2004 - 12:11:58 PST
a couple of things regarding this thread:
1)"sueing is not collecting"; i believe once you've won your judgement
you should be able to lien out certain goods owned by the defendant; if
no payment is received the next step is to contact the credit bureaus &
hit'em where it might do some good, their credit report.
2)regarding fraud, ebay and otherwise: i'll make this as quick as pos-
sible.
friend in the SF bay area sold machine tool off ebay, typical Indonesian
fraud attempt to purchase $1K tool w/ $5K bogus cashier's check; he knew
about these and avoided it. BUT: his friend in that area did the same,&
the same thing happened - he shined it, but he came home one day to find
a note on his doorstep; this note was just deficient enuff of threaten-
ing implications to avoid any police intervention (they didn't care any-
ways), but the underlying tone was "where the f**k is our money?".
This, to me, is fairly hair-raising - i myself am not worried about my
own safety, but having a family in the residence is something else. so
what is developing w/ these fraudulent attempts? obviously, the foreign
purchaser either
1)wasn't really foreign
2)has contacts here in the states working w/ him: illegals, immigrants,
gang members, organized crime associates?
3)are stepping up the level of intimidation
i have not heard of others in the same predicament; to me, anyone coming
up to your doorstep to anonymously leave threatening notes on their
fraudulent scam deserves full retribution, & obviously LE really doesn't
care whether some bastard is right on your doorstep trying to strongarm
you into giving them money. something to think about!
i constantly am bombarded w/ fraud attempts by nigerians, indonesians,
and now others - just had one attempt via a New Zealand address (this
was an ebay scam), most others come thru my websites. just had one
indonesian want to buy 250 micrometers thru my website (i have ONE
listed for sale); when i told him the price was $3.5M + $10K shipping,
he immediately said "fine, here's three new mastercard numbers, please
ship right away". go figure.
another recent scam is the attempt by indonesians to purchase cell
phones thru ebay and websites; these are THOUGHT to be Al Queda backed
purchases to use the phones for bomb detonators; the purchaser offers
double or triple the actual selling price to attain these phones.
barry
carson city, nv
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