Dan Rhodes

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I've been selling laptops on ebay in my spare time for some while and recently this has been happening a lot, one person bidding on one of my laptops received 30 of these emails from various people in a 24hour period. What makes matters worse is that after being contacted by some of these potential customers they have said how they have been receiving these wonderful offers, I try and talk them out of what I am calling this as "the western union" scam - they will only accept payment through western union - I guess less traceable? People must be falling for it, and a lot of money must be being lost.
Scam number 2 is being contacted by people in, for example, Indonesia saying they really want to buy the item, and will pay more than the item is worth and the only way they are able to pay is by using a stolen credit card or www.qchex.com (or similar) using stolen bank details - not sure how many people are aware of this one, as it seems to me to be a newer scam....