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Originally Posted by olebean I mentioned in a previous thread, I had an offer for a domain held at uk2. after negociations, the domain sold for a £2500-00. Prior to payment arriving, I get a phone call from Nigeria! Nobody spoke, the line went dead.
Payment arrived for £7500-00, no contact yet from the buyer, not even contact details.
Before I tell you what Ive done, what would you guys do! |
This is a classic scam - it's been done on everything from electrical goods to music memorabilia.
You agree a price of £2,500 and they send you a cheque for considerably more - along with some interesting excuse as to why. You are then asked to send the goods (or in this case release the name) and to send them back the difference (in this case £5,000).
Let me guess they paid by some form of cheque? Cheques can be returned long into the future if they're found to be forged/fraudulent. So while the £7,500 may initially clear, the funds will eventually be taken back by the bank - leaving the victim with no goods (or domain name) and £5,000 down.
However yours may be genuine....