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Originally posted by electricsheep
Just a thought, while there are attractions to winding up scammers, remember they are criminals, so be careful |
Good point, but I don't see that people like "Mad Frankie Frazer" are going to be interested in relatively small scams. The hard crims are probably all going to be over in Belfast stuffing a lorry with £20 million or so. Ebay scammers are probably weaselly little blokes who only do it because they can hide behind internet anonimity, so I doubt that if you are going to get someone coming round to introduce your kneecaps to a baseball bat, especially if you've put a perfectly valid business like reason forward as your terms for the deal. It more bother than it's worth to them, so they'll just move on to somebody a bit more naive.
Reporting it to the law probably won't get you anywhere given the lack of resources to cover a huge amount of scamming, but you'd like to think that if they did follow it through and secure a conviction, the police would have more nouse than to give out the identity of the person that had alerted them.