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<blockquote data-quote="Artist 2004" data-source="post: 150436" data-attributes="member: 177270"><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Here's an example of attempted fraud on us just a couple of weeks ago. Interesting because we were the sellers. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">My wife was selling a mobile phone on an auction site. Buyer wanted to pay by Moneygram, a service offered by the UK Post Office and others, and through the auction site message service asked her for our address and telephone number "needed by the payment service". A few days later she received an email apparently from Moneygram, complete with grammatical errors, advising that the cash had been deposited by the buyer, giving a tracking number, and a link to a Post Office Web site where we could verify it. The e-mail went on to say that we could now send the phone to the buyer. Also, before we would receive the cash we would need to provide either a driving licence number or NI number for identification purposes.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Now Moneygram is a payment service and would never advise anyone to send goods. And they wouldn't ask for such identity - a clear case of attempted identity theft, not to mention the loss of the phone and no payment.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">I tried to contact Moneygram through their website to ask if the mail was authentic, but this is impossible unless you are a customer who has sent some money through them - not a potential receiver of money from them. However I found enough info in their FAQs to conclude that it was a scam and we pulled out.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Artist 2004, post: 150436, member: 177270"] [INDENT] Here's an example of attempted fraud on us just a couple of weeks ago. Interesting because we were the sellers. My wife was selling a mobile phone on an auction site. Buyer wanted to pay by Moneygram, a service offered by the UK Post Office and others, and through the auction site message service asked her for our address and telephone number "needed by the payment service". A few days later she received an email apparently from Moneygram, complete with grammatical errors, advising that the cash had been deposited by the buyer, giving a tracking number, and a link to a Post Office Web site where we could verify it. The e-mail went on to say that we could now send the phone to the buyer. Also, before we would receive the cash we would need to provide either a driving licence number or NI number for identification purposes. Now Moneygram is a payment service and would never advise anyone to send goods. And they wouldn't ask for such identity - a clear case of attempted identity theft, not to mention the loss of the phone and no payment. I tried to contact Moneygram through their website to ask if the mail was authentic, but this is impossible unless you are a customer who has sent some money through them - not a potential receiver of money from them. However I found enough info in their FAQs to conclude that it was a scam and we pulled out. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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