Friday, February 24, 2006
The Plot Thickens
By now, I was pretty much convinced that this young student was legitimate and just needed help setting things up. He claimed that he was engaged to help develop Star Wars Galaxies and spent a lot of time at his computer working on things that I know nothing about. His pay for this was $ 250.00 a day, paid into his account in a Canadian bank. Actually, after awhile he received a beautifully bound game which was the final product of what he was working on. He also said that his resources was a trust fund that was set up for him in Canada.
He then surprised me by telling me that he was the Executive Editor in Chief of an on line program that evaluated computers and computer hardware. He now had a project that involved getting computers from some of the manufacturers of the best gaming computers available. They were to be shipped to him and he had to use my facilities to run tests and overclock these computers and do a write up on each computer. Soon the computers started arriving and there were long hours invested in running these computers at their maximum. When he was finished, he wrote up his report on each computer which was published on the internet. I was told that his reward for this was to keep the computers, that the did not need to be shipped back and that after awhile he would be allowed to sell them. As a Canadian, he could not use his eBay account in Canada to sell and deliver in the U.S.. I guess I should have checked up on this but when he asked if I had an eBay account and could he use it, I agreed. I had only used my ebay account to buy on line and did buy a fine computer for myself some time back and was well pleased with it. Since I did not use the account any more, I agreed and he said that I should change my name on the account which I did. Along with using my eBay account, there was a PayPal account that went along with it and that of course was tied into my bank account I also had credit cards that he said we could use to buy parts and perhaps build our own computers. The credit cards were also listed on the PayPal account. I applied for and received an American Express Gold Business card.
This was the beginning of the demise of my retirement savings.
He then surprised me by telling me that he was the Executive Editor in Chief of an on line program that evaluated computers and computer hardware. He now had a project that involved getting computers from some of the manufacturers of the best gaming computers available. They were to be shipped to him and he had to use my facilities to run tests and overclock these computers and do a write up on each computer. Soon the computers started arriving and there were long hours invested in running these computers at their maximum. When he was finished, he wrote up his report on each computer which was published on the internet. I was told that his reward for this was to keep the computers, that the did not need to be shipped back and that after awhile he would be allowed to sell them. As a Canadian, he could not use his eBay account in Canada to sell and deliver in the U.S.. I guess I should have checked up on this but when he asked if I had an eBay account and could he use it, I agreed. I had only used my ebay account to buy on line and did buy a fine computer for myself some time back and was well pleased with it. Since I did not use the account any more, I agreed and he said that I should change my name on the account which I did. Along with using my eBay account, there was a PayPal account that went along with it and that of course was tied into my bank account I also had credit cards that he said we could use to buy parts and perhaps build our own computers. The credit cards were also listed on the PayPal account. I applied for and received an American Express Gold Business card.
This was the beginning of the demise of my retirement savings.
# posted by VonKrogh @ 2/24/2006 12:38:00 PM 
