Digg.com has an interesting story. It states, "Politicians should take notes from this eBay scammer who not only was courteous enough to tell the victim she was being scammed, but even continued to answer emails from the press! In the end, will it lead to her downfall?"
In fact, the victim did several things wrong. Most of her mistakes were well-known to experienced users of eBay and other online auction services. In fact, all of her mistakes could have been easily avoided.
You can read the article at http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/redeye/chi-060307onlineside,1,5292617.story?coll=chi-business-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Please note that the article overlooks one very obvious point: Never, ever use Western Union to make a payment for an online auction. Use PayPal. PayPal was designed for online auctions and has many protections built in to avoid fraud. Western Union was not designed for online auctions and has no such protections. If you send money via PayPal and then later learn of fraud, the funds can quickly be frozen until PayPal sorts things out for you. With Western Union payments, you are out of luck (and out of your money).
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