As I’m in the process of slowing shutting down other sites I’ve worked on (due to time constraints), I’m reposting them here. Here’s an article from “Behind The Frontline” which was going to be a cross between I Work With Fools, Worse Than Failure and Dilbert.
Categories: Timewasters and Gee, I Wonder Why?. Author: Anonymous
Somebody recently placed an online order with us, but we thought it was a bit suspicious when the IP address (a “unique” number which helps identify your computer when on the internet) showed up as being in Nigeria, the credit card was in the USA, we are based in Ireland and the order value was over a hundred Euros.
We give them a call on the French number they supplied, but there’s no answer. We then refund the money to the credit card used as we suspect it’s fraud.
Two days later, the person emails us asking why we refunded the money and can we send the goods “now” (sent from a Hotmail account via an anonymous proxy). We replied saying the credit card company flagged the card and recommended we refuse the order. To process the order, he would have to send us a fax of the front of the credit card.
He says he can’t do that as he’s in Nigeria – but can he please pay with another credit card he’s got (this time registered to another third party name in Germany): if not, can we send the goods anyway and he’ll pay on delivery.
For some reason, we declined his order totally and just cut off communication with him after that point.
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