Bit of fun with a scammer...

[Leon]

Being a bit thick here - have I understood this right.

He uses a stolen card to buy stuff he doesn't want so you will give the shipping agent cash?  Its a scam to get just that P&P cash?

Yep.  We charge a stolen card for whatever the amount is, then when the funds have cleared, we have to send £x to the shipping agent via Western Union (which is anonymous/untraceable).  So when the card is highlighted as stolen, the funds are taken back out of our account, but we've already paid good money to some random guy somewhere (probably the scammer using another name!).

In this instance, it was £680 for the goods, another £800 for his shipping agent, plus an extra £100 for us, for helping him out...   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Reporting to the police in this case is useful as it will give them intel, which is used world wide. Problem is of course that in the UK it is cordinated by the Met (inept and corrupted), and in the US by the FBI(totally incompetant).

IanS

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