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The Return of an Old Scam. Old scams never die, they just hang around until a new con artist gives them birth again. One old scam has new home on the Worldwide Internet. It's one I exposed on TV in 1988, I called it "old cheap camera scam." Years ago scammers would mail you what looked like a freight shipping order for a camera. The order said the 35-mm camera was insured to a value of $2,500, this was to make you think that was the value of the camera. The storage slip on the shipment said the merchandise had already been paid for by the sender. All you had to do was send them a $12 warehouse processing fee and they would send you this expensive camera. What a deal! But what they did not tell you was that the camera only costs $2 and you were going to send them $12, giving them a cool profit of $10. This was a way to sell a cheap plastic camera for six-times its value. Now the same type scam is being done on the worldwide Internet. This time the e-mail is called "Notification of Unclaimed Parcel" and it has your name printed on it. They notify you that there is a prepaid item for you and you have 40-days to claim it or they will seize it as an unclaimed shipment. They say the shipment can be one of a long list of expensive sounding items. (Like cameras, jewelry, computers, radios etc.) They say the merchandise has been insured for $2,741.88. This is to make you think the item will have this value. But, to get this freight released from the warehouse you must send them $31.95 by credit card. Once again you may get that $2 plastic camera, but this time they got you for $31.95. There are few new scams, just new victims. Filed May 2004. |
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