I think the most fitting end to the hijacked auction would be if someone entered a $3,000 bid, then paid with a counterfeit money order. One scammer scamming another. Too much to hope probably.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
chasds@mindspring.com wrote: Dale wrote, in part:
Moral of the story? Scamsters are not totally wasting their time!
Dale Brown cycles de ORO, Inc
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At the risk of being OT, very briefly...all it takes is one gullible person and the scam is worth it. Note the recent story of the University of California Irvine psychiatrist (admittedly in his late 80s but apparently still quite functional), who was taken in by the most primitive internet scam of them all..the Nigerian con. Not once, but two or three times! He lost over a million bucks. I'm not making this up. It was all over the news here this week.
That story made it clear to me that these scams have a life for a reason. they actually work more often than we might imagine.
classic content: I was scammed by a dutch seller on ebay a couple of years ago; nearly lost a lot of money. Thankfully, I was able to get it back. I never received a very nice Colnago Super with 50th anniversary group..a deal I still regret. I wanted that bike!
Charles Andrews
SoCal