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Posted by Anonymous on 09/28/51 12:01
NC wrote:
> > I looked at wire transfer but on Craigslist they have
> > a warning never to let a foreign customer wire money
> > to you because you could be set up for a scam and find
> > your bank account is drained.
>
> Not really... The way this scam works is that someone wires money to
> you, you ship them the goods, and a couple of days later they claim
> that the wire was sent by mistake, so the transaction is reversed (big
> guys use letters of credit to prevent it from happening, but they are
> prohibitively expensive for small transactions). What you need to do
> to prevent it from happening is to set up a bank account specifically
> for accepting wires and keep a near-zero balance in it (as soon as the
> wire arrives, you transfer most of it into another account).
There aer several variations of that type of fraud and having a near
zero balance does not prevent it.
Bye!
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