Victimising others is a sadistic streak that the crooks use to trap the gullible. The modes are aplenty. The lowest common most denominator of all such tricksters and fraudsters is the veneer of truthfulness. Currently, however, the online avatar of fraudsters is rampant, and one needs to be extra careful with such wolves in sheep's clothings.
Why all this pontification? Is that your question? Well, just now I woke up to find an email by one Flo Williams who thanks me for using PayPal, and promises me that the goods I ordered are on the way. It is a bill for five hundred dollars. The country I cross-checked is east-central Virginia. The city can be Richmond, but need not be.
Very interesting it is! For one thing, I never ever order anything online. If at all I were to thus order, I would always use the COD payment method. Interestingly, what I have ordered from which shop where is not mentioned at all. But the invoice is perfect.
The best part of the whole transaction is that I do not even ever transact the pay pal way! I do not even have any such account. Obviously, it is some online fraud.
My first reaction was to write back to Ms Flo Williams that she is mistaken, and that I do not have any pay pal account nor have I ordered anything online, and surely not from the U.S.
Then I thought the better of it. I would show the receipt to my brothers. If further there is any e-mail, I intend approaching the cyber police. Hopefully thus at least one gang of cyber criminals would get caught, right? In brief, in this era of Bitcoins and what have you, every 'pal' is suspicious, especially because people could go to any extent for fleecing, for free 'pay' !
Pratima@" 'Pals', pretending to be friends, are actually foes in disguise" is the moral of the story!
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