Hello mark!
** On Monday 06.07.20 - 12:46, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:
Will this ever end?
nope! why? because there's enough id10ts out there that respond... in advertising, 2-3 percent is a good return... folks posting these scams apparently make enough off them to warrant continued postings...
At about 2 years into my ownership of a bookshop, I got an email
requesting a quote for a pile of books. It appeared to be a school order.
Nothing entirely unusual about that, 'cuz I would get request for quotes
or special orders from email all the time.
After completing the detailed work to build the list with prices and the grand total, there was a switcheroo. I was requested to send the
merchandise to an African/European foreign country (can't remember which), whilst the payment would be completed from the USA. And.. their
expectation was that it would be a credit card transaction. Sheeesh, I thought.
I simply wrote back to suggest "simply use Amazon at the country of
delivery" ..and that I primary support my local community, and since the value of the books ran into 4-figures, I would only accept a cashier's cheque.
I never got anything similar like that again.
However... there is a never ending stream of new businesses and gullible people.
../|ug
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