[extropy-chat] internet car sale scam

[Mike Lorrey]

Harvey is right here. You can't do international business the same way
as you do it domestically. In international commerce, the buyer puts
money into an account that the seller can verify actually has assets,
typically with the shipping company or institutions it does business
with. The Seller ships the item being sold along with a bill of lading
to the buyer, and when the buyer receives the item, the shipping
company releases the funds, or notifies who ever is holding the assets
to release the funds, to the seller.

A friend of mine in Seattle is an international car broker and when
people try this scam with him, he'll first call the issuing bank to
verify that funds are available (this will weed out the less well
executed scams) and even then will sit on the money for ten days to
make sure the bank doesn't come back for the funds. Only then will he
ship a car, and will include instructions for how to do international
business in the future.

Never send funds back, either. Once you receive payment, and the check
is cleared, that money is yours and you can legally consider the sale
to be final.

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Mike Lorrey
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