I've heard of these types of scam but not how they work and I'm too tired to think about it so someone please explain. I'm also crap at screenshotting and posting pics so here is the message quoted that I received about some speakers I'm selling:
"Wait, let me explain. DPD Express is an international delivery company. For the payroll, it is the postman who will give you the money hand in hand because the payment will be made on the spot when the article is recovered. That is to say that I would make a transfer to the dpd service account, these will register it in your name so that you are the only person who can recover this money. Then Dpd will send some postmen to your address to pick up the package and they will give you your money directly you understand better?"
DPD turn up to collect the item before the courier with the money. You’ll be encouraged to hand it over and told the money is on the way, which of course, it isn’t.
Oh right, simple as that then. Cheers! I don't know who would be daft enough to hand it over without the cash though.
You know it's a scam so why even entertain it?
I thought it was usually an insurance scam. They set everything up and then you receive a text asking you to pay for insurance for the transport. Otherwise DPD or whoever would have the address of the person doing the scam. This way they just send out thousands of emails and if someone bites they just send out an email from a url that looks like DPD asking for a small insurance payment. No one ever gets their address
Edit: from the DPD site itself:
Some shippers and consignees have received fake SMS or emails asking them to pay for insurance, for taxes, or an additional service in order to complete the delivery of a parcel.
These scams often take the form of a SMS or an email using DPD's graphic codes and ask you to pay by credit card or via prepaid coupons to be sent to an unofficial email address.
Mister-P
You know it’s a scam so why even entertain it?
I'm not entertaining it, just curious to know how it works and wondering about playing them along for a bit of fun.
Seems fine.
Fill a box with a load of stones/mud/sand and hand that over.
Fill a box with a load of stones/mud/sand and hand that over.
A big fat Monday turd would be much better.
GlennQuagmire
Fill a box with a load of stones/mud/sand and hand that over.
Far too much effort, typing a bit of rubbish is as far as I'm willing to go for a bit of entertainment.
dyna-ti
A big fat Monday turd would be much better.
I could probably manage that!
I’m not entertaining it, just curious to know how it works and wondering about playing them along for a bit of fun.
If you're thinking you can 'play them along' then you're not as clever as you think you are and they're a lot smarter than you realise. It's a $10 billion industry. They're experts in the whole Dunning-Kruger thing.
If you’re thinking you can ‘play them along’ then you’re not as clever as you think you are and they’re a lot smarter than you realise. It’s a $10 billion industry. They’re experts in the whole Dunning-Kruger thing.
Lol, that's me told then! If I thought I was clever I wouldn't be on here asking how it works.
I had someone call a couple of weeks ago claiming to be Amazon customer services, about an attempted £499 fraudulent purchase on my account. I just hung up, but wish I'd gone with it a bit longer because I'm curious how they would've attempted to monetise it without tripping the suspicions of anybody who wasn't an idiot.
I’m curious how they would’ve attempted to monetise it without tripping the suspicions of anybody who wasn’t an idiot
They won’t they just rely on hitting the occasional “idiot” who will bite (waves at the father in law) and pass over account details, credit card stuff etc. Just works on volume of calls.
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That’s the whole premise really, the odd typo, the slightly weird language, it’s all deliberate to weed out the people that aren’t their target audience.
If you pass this first step and are still communicating with them, then they know they have someone gullible or ‘a bit green’ think elderly relatives in the main.
They don’t expect to scam me/you generally with these simple scams, they want the ‘idiot’ referred to above.
Advance free fraud or 419 scam.
If you’re bored some funny stories of scammers being played at their own game on 419eater.com.