Anybody want to help me get back at a scammer?

[freebird73717]

I've been doing some part time IT work for a small business locally and the guy was getting emails from a guy wanting to order a $6000 machine and have it shipped to the netherlands. Okay first off his email was a yahoo account. The email of his preferred shipping company was a hotmail account.

I told the business owner the guy was scamming him. I looked up the email headers and found that ip address the email he receieved from the shipping company was the exact same as the original one from the guy that was wanting to purchase the machine.

I looked up the ip and it was in ghana. The guy even called up this business owener (after I had told him all I found out) and the owner asked him "how the weather was in Ghana?" The guy just hanged up. It was funny as hell.

So anyone have any ideas as to how and get this guy back? Some nasty bug I can email him or something? Might not even be worth it. He probably wont even open any emails from him now that he knows we know what he is all about.

Anyway.... just rambling......

[thecoalman]

Have you read p-p-p-powerbook?

http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/



It all started with an eBay auction for a new G4 Powerbook. My friend Cory wanted me to sell it for him just days after he bought it. Probably because he realized that, aside from looking cool, he had no real use for it. For the sake of an easy sale, I just pretended to sell it as my own, with a starting price of $1700, and the "Buy It Now" option for $2100.

[freebird73717]

That's funny.

I wish we could have done something like that. Our scammer wanted to purchase a really heavy piece of door machinery for $6000 and have it shipped to the netherlands for $4000 using his preferred "shipping company" because they didn't make him pay duty taxes.

He wanted to pay the total with a credit card and then we were to wire the "shipping company" the money for them to come pick up the machine.

Obvious scam. Use a stolen credit card to pay. Have the seller wire money to the "shipper" for "shipping costs". The banks eventually catch the transaction and recover the $ from the credit card payment. The seller is now out the cost for his merchandise plus the cost for the bogus shipping. This would have totaled over $10,000

Thing is the guy I've been working for really needed the sale and so much wanted to believe this was a legit transaction.

I hate friggin scammers. What aggravates me is that if I hadn't been there, the guy I was working for would have more than likely gone through with the deal. He's 73 years old and runs a shop that builds the automated machines that build doors. Hard working, honest guy. Pisses me off when I see a scammer trying to take advantage of someone like that.

[thecoalman]

I'm particularly fond of the "laser" mouse.

[zzyzzx]

Have you read p-p-p-powerbook?

http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/



It all started with an eBay auction for a new G4 Powerbook. My friend Cory wanted me to sell it for him just days after he bought it. Probably because he realized that, aside from looking cool, he had no real use for it. For the sake of an easy sale, I just pretended to sell it as my own, with a starting price of $1700, and the "Buy It Now" option for $2100.

I'm going to bookmark that site!

[persephone]

I am now late for work but that was sooooo funny lol