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   Hello mark!   
      
   ** On Monday 06.07.20 - 12:46, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    AA>> Will this ever end?   
      
    ml> nope! why? because there's enough id10ts out there that respond... in   
    ml> advertising, 2-3 percent is a good return... folks posting these scams   
    ml> apparently make enough off them to warrant continued postings...   
      
   At about 2 years into my ownership of a bookshop, I got an email     
   requesting a quote for a pile of books.  It appeared to be a school order.     
    Nothing entirely unusual about that, 'cuz I would get request for quotes     
   or special orders from email all the time.   
      
   After completing the detailed work to build the list with prices and the     
   grand total, there was a switcheroo.  I was requested to send the     
   merchandise to an African/European foreign country (can't remember which),     
   whilst the payment would be completed from the USA. And.. their     
   expectation was that it would be a credit card transaction. Sheeesh, I     
   thought.   
      
   I simply wrote back to suggest "simply use Amazon at the country of     
   delivery"  ..and that I primary support my local community, and since the     
   value of the books ran into 4-figures, I would only accept a cashier's     
   cheque.   
      
   I never got anything similar like that again.   
      
   However... there is a never ending stream of new businesses and gullible     
   people.   
      
     ../|ug   
      
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