Fraud as an art, or business on the name of Moneybookers

March 25, 2008 - 8:16am | Fraud | News |
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It is known that greedy people pay twice and free cheese is only in a mouse trap. Basing on these principles some swindlers have developed a whole business. According to Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland there are some fraudsters offering you to buy a popular car for less than its Kelley Blue Book value. Motivation is kept up with colorful advertisement and promising pictures. To make people sure in their honesty and decency swindlers use the name of such respected system as Moneybookers mentioning it as conductor of payment transactions.

 The sellers send follow-up e-mails that are pretended to be from Moneybookers.com. Further follows the request to send 30% down payment on car. But here is one interesting nuance! Noble sellers ask you wire the money to the seller in London that is never has practiced in Moneybookers.

Better Business Bureau also reports that the swindlers have reached the level of art at creation their strategy for deceiving of people.  So, the so-called sellers send the messages that are similar to the messages usually sent by Moneybookers. All the links on those pages are active but connected to online chats where administer the same swindlers. One cannot disagree that this is very assuring and even the most suspicious customers can be calmed.  As the result lots of people fell for the bait and lost thousands. But it is not the end. Later they have sent another 30%.

Watch out such transactions and don't forget the policy of Union Money Transfer Service: WU is not intended to send money to someone you don't know.

Aynny, reporter of Ecommerce Journal.com




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