Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] There's a Scam for everything

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

>Entering a search for "boat buying scams" I found that this is a common
>scam. Apparently, what they do is send you a cashier's check that is for
>more than the value of the boat with the explicit directions that you are to
>send the remainder of the value of the cashiers check to them immediately
>upon receipt, along with the title. Of course then the check bounces and you
>no longer have the title of the boat. 
>
>Now this is a pretty hard scam to pull on someone that has no money as is
>the case with me. It would be hard for me to send them a couple of thousand
>dollars without the check first clearing the bank. 
>
>This is just another one of those messed up things on the Internet that I
>guess we have to put up with. Annoying.
>  
>
Well.. anyone that doesn't wait for a check to clear before giving a 
product in return is pretty clueless anyway so I couldn't feel to bad 
for such people. Who doesn't learn that as a kid? I'm still always 
surprised by people who expect you to send goods out to them immediately 
for a check though. Lots of whining about why do they have to wait 10 
business days. Of course it's exactly that need to wait to see if the 
check clears that makes me think checks are a stupid way to shop. Not 
that credit cards are much better.

<rant>
We definately need a better digital commerce system for a digital 
economy. To bad so many people had crappy ideas of how digital cash 
should work and pretty much ruined the concept for a decade or so. All 
people running with some silly pie in the sky idea of what digital money 
should be rather than addressing the issues of what would actually be 
useful to individuals and merchants.
</rant>

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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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