Bro, very thankful for your thread. Helps us to be aware of such elaborate scams. People always thought that making & receiving payment via Paypal would be a safe and pleasant experience, but end up, they feel afraid when such 'threatening' emails start pouring in. And due to inexperience, they would succumb to it and do whatever's being told, since they thought it's under the guise of Paypal, and some sort of https in the URL making it seem like a secure transaction.
The thing that really triggers the alarm bells for me is the part where they seriously insisted on you sending a scanned copy of the Western Union form. Don't ask me how they will manage to siphon your funds away when they only have your name and amount from the form... You see, a friend of mine got conned when he decided to buy a whole lot of cheap Nokia phones on ebay 5 years ago. *sighs* Got conned and lost money. Even lodged a police report but of course, to no avail.
Morale of the story is that we must always be vigilant. And I'm sorry if I'm being highly critical here, but ever since that sour experience, I've been strongly put off by Western Union. :stupid:
Give than conman a taste of his medicine Beserkdroid. :top:
