Today, I received an e-mail from "Ross," who said he was in the United Kingdom and was interested in buying a roulette wheel from me. He wanted to know what shipping would cost and, oddly, what size table came with the wheel. And although he said his name was Ross, his e-mail was listed as coming from "Kerim."
When I answered that I needed his address to estimate shipping and wheels don't "come with" a table, he replied, "You mean we can put the roulette wheel on any table we want?" (He still didn't supply an address.)
This was all too odd, so I checked into his IP address. I grabbed his IP address from the header and used the IP Address Tracker. I learned that the IP address is registered to a David and came from a street in a residential neighborhood outside Seattle, Washington. (Same area, by coincidence, as the last guy to rip us off.)
I sent an e-mail back, telling him I could not ship him a wheel.
He actually replied, indignant that I was "accusing [him] of fraud." He offered to send a copy of his driver's license-- something no sane person would ever do anyway. An identity thief would have no problem sending the driver's license he grabbed from your wallet, though.
Through it all, I was wondering why someone would pay to ship a 35-pound roulette wheel from the United States to Great Britain when he could buy a wheel there. Or why a guy would want to buy a high-end roulette wheel when he clearly knows nothing about roulette.
I explained why I could not do the transaction and said, basically, "That's it." Any replies from him will be going into the spam folder.
Now I'm wondering what he'll try next.
When I answered that I needed his address to estimate shipping and wheels don't "come with" a table, he replied, "You mean we can put the roulette wheel on any table we want?" (He still didn't supply an address.)
This was all too odd, so I checked into his IP address. I grabbed his IP address from the header and used the IP Address Tracker. I learned that the IP address is registered to a David and came from a street in a residential neighborhood outside Seattle, Washington. (Same area, by coincidence, as the last guy to rip us off.)
I sent an e-mail back, telling him I could not ship him a wheel.
He actually replied, indignant that I was "accusing [him] of fraud." He offered to send a copy of his driver's license-- something no sane person would ever do anyway. An identity thief would have no problem sending the driver's license he grabbed from your wallet, though.
Through it all, I was wondering why someone would pay to ship a 35-pound roulette wheel from the United States to Great Britain when he could buy a wheel there. Or why a guy would want to buy a high-end roulette wheel when he clearly knows nothing about roulette.
I explained why I could not do the transaction and said, basically, "That's it." Any replies from him will be going into the spam folder.
Now I'm wondering what he'll try next.
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