This might sound familiar to some of you, and a LOUD warning to the rest ... here's another case of an online company being ripped off bigtime by a Indonesian credit card buyer ....
* Reseller touched by $25,000 Internet fraud Bruce Bathols listed his reseller Web site on a couple of high-profile search engines. Within days, the orders started rolling in from Indonesia, up to $25,000 in fact. The rate of return was enough to make Bathols begin to ignore his years of business experience. And that's when it all turned sour . . . http://arn.idg.com.au/idg2.nsf/q/00065C32?OpenDocument&n=e&c=AR The scam is that the Indonesian user buys valuable stuff, uses a valid (but stolen) credit card number/details, the trader sends off the goods, and the real owner of the card sees his statement and the Card company reverses the transaction. The trader's lost his goods, and the money. And little or no chance of getting anything back. This is so rife in transactions with Indonesia, that I recommend traders NEVER EVER accept credit card orders from anyone in Indonesia, and instead either reject the order, or get a bank draft , and see the money in their account, and cleared before they send off any goods. Just to be on the safe side, I also recommend they take the money out of that account and put it in another account, so the bank can't give them any stupid story about the money not clearing or anything. Just passing on the warning. Cheers, Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP WebWorks ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
