Scammers vs. scammers
There is a Kijiji scam that seems to be so popular, that scammers are actually competing against scammers for the right to attempt to steal our money.
Last week I was trying to sell my Dad’s Louis L’Amour collection on Kijiji, and was astounded when I had five or six responses in about a half hour. I was naively thinking, is $800 enough?
The “buyer” asked me to please hold the books, and would even pay me an extra $90 if I would. The “buyer” also requested that I take the ad down. At the time I didn’t realize this was a scam, and that the “buyer” wasn’t really concerned about someone else buying the books – the scammer was concerned that some other scammer might get to me first.
A certified cheque was in the mail I was told, and it should be arriving in a day or two. Incredibly, the next day FedEx delivered a cheque for $2,750 to the house and I received an email from the “buyer” asking if the cheque arrived.
I didn’t think it had, because the total wasn’t the $890 I was expecting. Plus this cheque’s origin was from Wichita Falls, Texas instead of Edmonton. Huh? The bells and whistles were already going off, but when the scammer told me to go ahead and cash the cheque and they would send a company to pick up the eight boxes of books . . . Ding . . . ding . . . ding . . . contd.
