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o man this is weird...

One wonders why the scammer doesn't contact the seller privately, but asks a public question?

In this case, the recipient may also not be clued in what he is trying to get. A laptop is a laptop is a laptop, and laptops sell for good money.. right?
 
It is up to the recipient of the question whether to post it on the auction page, or keep it private. The seller posted it, probably to discourage similar offers from other scammers.

--T
 
Speaking of fraud, I recieved sum'n very interesting in my snailmail a couple of weeks ago. It was a bill from FedEx, addressed to 'Opex Communications', at my home address. The bill was for shipping from various US addresses to a location in Lagos, Nigeria. It was over $500.00 that someone has scammed from FedEx (that should make a few folks here happy). I googled it, out of curiousity, and there really is a 'Opex Communications' based in Chicago. I emailed them to warn them about the scam, but I haven't heard anything back from them yet.

--T
 
Oh yes, a couple of years ago I had an Indonesian gentleman who emailed me about buying mobile phones from my (non-existing) web shop. When I looked up on internet that the exact same Sony Ericsson models he requested were indeed cheaper in Indonesia than in Sweden, and I assured him I could not make a good offer on a laptop neither, he disappeared. Not sure if it was a full-fledged scammer or just a newbie, as he appeared under different email names.
 
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