tim wrote:
Hey HOW do they use your bank account details in this situation for any gain?
I think we've put this up before.
They fake a transfer to your account, usually for more money that you are asking to cover shipping with a bit extra for you as a sweetener, saying that it's being held in escrow until their "shipping agent" has picked up the bike. Then they try to get you to pay some of the extra out of your own pocket to their agent, who won't turn up to pick up the bike until they've been paid the extra amount.
The amounts will be enough that if it was legit then you'd end up with extra money, except all that happens is you end up giving money to them via a method you can't use to get it back (e.g. Western Union), no money ever appears in your account and their faked identities dissappear of the face of the earth.
The sad bit is they wouldn't be doing it so much if it didn't work, so there must be plenty of suckers out there.
