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Urgent!! Advise needed...


moonbeam

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A potential customer contacted us with this message...

 

"We will like to Place order on some particular items we saw on your website, we are resellers based in the United Arab Emirates of Dubai, we will like to do business with you by ordering few quantities but first we will like to know if you do accept international orders and secondly what mode of payment do you prefer? As for us we usually send funds to our clients through Wire Transfer which is the safest means of remitting funds."

 

What do you guys think? Anyone aware of wire transfer scams? I could surely arrange an international order but, I have never used a wire transfer payment method. I hate to turn away potential customers.

 

Thanks,

Moon

"Woohoo, Just Havin Funnn!"

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You'd have to give them your bank details for a wire transfer - bad move.

 

Are they using a junk-mail address e.g hotmail, yahoo? - or are they using one based on their own domain?

 

I would be suspicious, VERY suspicious!

 

Vger

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While this one is worded much better, I have received several scam order attempts from UAE in the last few months. I'm sure there are plenty of legit customers there but it does seem to be the latest location for scammers.

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Thanks guy's I think I will just politely deny this one.

 

Something else that I noticed that just makes it all the more fishy. Is his signature at the bottom of his email compared to his email addy:

 

Thanks you,

Mr.Edwards Micheal

 

eddymichael2245

 

I see Michael is spelled different, I think it is unlikely someone would spell their own name wrong.

 

Moon

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why don't you ask your bank maybe they know of a way for you to recive the money without security risk

generally there are a lot of fake orders from overseas but they usually want to pay with cc

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All I can say is watch out!

 

I got sent $15k of US money orders, banked them and told the customer I would send the order once the payment cleared. I didn't realise the bank would charge $500 fees when they came back as fakes, they were very authentic with the metal strip/water mark etc...

 

We only do natonal orders as a rule now.

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Thanks for everyones input. I tried every other form of payment. But they insist on getting my bank information for a wire transfer. I had to politely refuse their order. Oh well better safe than sorry!

Moon

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I contacted my bank, they insisted that I DO NOT give out my banking info and their is no safe wire transfer with someone with whom you don't know. I am curious to the fact that I see bank transfer addons in the contributions area of this site. If it is so 'dangerous' to utilize how come it's even used?

 

Moon

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