Digital BW, The Print

Very same with south Africa and other african countries.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Roark 
  To: DigitalB&WPrint 
  Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 11:08 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] OT -- Art Buying Scam


  Assume any order from Nigeria is a fraud.



  I received an e-mail order and had several e-mail exchanges with an
  individual in Nigeria.  For some reason  he claimed PayPal was not available
  in Nigeria.  He wanted to use "his" credit card.  He send the information
  and the card charges went through the system normally. 



  However, I was suspicious and found that there are an increasing number of
  art sales to Nigeria where the card turns out to have not belonged to the
  person over there.  They apparently use a good card belonging to someone who
  is totally unaware that there is a problem.  The transaction goes through;
  the Nigerian gets the art; the real owner disputes the charge; the card
  company charges back the money to you; and the con man in Nigeria has the
  art, which is re-sold (or whatever).  You, of course, lose not only the sale
  but the considerable expenses to ship the product.



  I found that the card processing company could get me to the telephone
  number for the issuing bank, which could then compare the card number with
  the purchaser's name - and they didn't match.



  So, beware.  (Luckily I had not shipped any product.)




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