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YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Delaware
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I wish i was kidding about this one! yes, I kept getting emails from this person, they gave me two numbers to call, which first of all they were like 14 digits long, and they kept insisting that it was a real number. I just dont think people should be aloud to do things like this, but sad to say, this is the world we live in... ![]() ![]()
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Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Norman, OK, USA
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| ![]() I can't tell you how many emails I've got telling me some guy has "Found a great new job for me!" I'm also the proud winner of the "Royal Spanish Lottery," but I didn't collect my millions because I couldn't bring myself to give out ALL of my personal information. Hahahah, people are always trying to find a way to scam whoever they can. ![]() |
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Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Immaterial
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| ![]() Not everybody does things the way we do them in the US. For example, if you wanted to telephone me, you would have to dial 14 digits...something like this: 011 27 21 555 1212. The 011 puts you into the international dialing ability of your phone service; 27 is my country code; 21 is my city code; 555 1212 represents my personal telephone number. South Africa uses 7 digits for telephone numbers, but not all countries do. I have called people in other nations who have only 5 or 6 digits for their telephone numbers, but I still had to dial the international access, country and city codes. The request for banking information is actually legitimate. I have been in South Africa for five years and have not written one check since I got here. Everybody pays their bills through EFT (electronic funds transfer). Just this morning I paid the groomer R180 (about $18) for grooming the two maltese on Tuesday...via EFT. We have debit orders on file with the bank for the house payments (and before the cars were paid off, we had one for them, too), and pay everyone from the plumber to the maid via EFT. This is a NORMAL way of doing business outside the US. To set your mind at ease, the banking information needed to do an EFT is no more than the info that is printed on your checks: account number, branch name and number, bank's number. Where you have to watch out is to see how the money is provided for the EFT: if the person sending the money goes to the bank and pays cash, the EFT will be fine; if he submits a check, it could be a bad check and the bank will debit your account later; if it comes directly from their bank account to yours, it will be OK because the bank won't transfer money that does not exist in the account. How do you find this out? demand that the buyer email you a "proof of payment." If he goes to the bank and sends from there, he will have a receipt that he can fax or scan and email...that bank receipt will specify if he paid the bank with cash or check. If it was transferred directly from his account to yours, the bank will email him a receipt for the transfer, which he can then email to you. I do freelance internet research for medical professionals and I email my invoices and receive my payment via EFT...they always send me the bank-provided "proof of payment." These proofs of payment can be faked, however, so if you do business with an overseas client, I recommend that you hold off shipping the dog until 30 has passed. It is unlikely that there will be a reversal of charges after that time, and you don't want to ship a really, really young puppy anyway. One caveat: there is an EFT scam going around...a client of mine was targeted: A man called to make an appointment for his wife and asked if he could pay for the visit in advance via EFT. My client quoted him R300. He transferred R16,800 into her account! Then he called to say an error had been made and could she transfer back to him R13,800, the excess amount. Within days his deposit of R16,800 had bounced as the check he had put in at the bank was no good. Overpaying and demanding an immediate refund of the excess is a common EFT scam, so if you use EFT (in the US it is sometimes referred as a "wire transfer") don't refund any money or send out a puppy until at least 30 days has passed. Just remember...there are other legitimate ways of doing business than the ways we are familiar and comfortable with in the US.
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Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Immaterial
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| ![]() Angie, I live in Flamingo Vlei!
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Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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| ![]() Is that close to me? Its around the corner isnt it?
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Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Immaterial
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| ![]() Yup! Check your private messages...I sent you one with my email addy in it
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Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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| ![]() Woops sorry for changing the subject a tad guys ![]() I got your mail, sent you an email already ![]()
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YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Delaware
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| ![]() You know, I have always wanted to go to South Africa! That is so cool you live there!!!! ![]() ![]()
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Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Immaterial
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| ![]() Dara, you should come visit. It is a fabulous place...and MUCH cheaper then the US, both to live and to visit!
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Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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| ![]() South Africa is really beautiful. Lots of beaches etc. I lived in UK for two years but there is no place like home :-)
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YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Delaware
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YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
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__________________ Regards,Cyn Driving the grammatically correct insane, one posting at a time ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Immaterial
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| ![]() Cyn, I live in South Africa and if you wanted to telephone me, you would have to dial 14 digits. If you wanted to sell me a puppy and you didn't take credit cards or have a PayPal account, I would ask for your banking information so that I could send the money via Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) which is a common means of payment outside the US. The points Dara mentions are perfectly legitimate outside the US, and if the emails don't have anything more incriminating that a standard-length overseas dialing sequence and a request for information to do a wire transfer of funds, the police will not take her seriously.
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