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["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>]

Hi,

I've found a Laptop on eBay [0], at a very interesting price. Now that I got 
the info to do the bank wire... I did some research on Google about the 
banking info and I found some information related to the payment method.

It uses a payment method through WebMoney  [1]  I've never heard of it, but 
I've never shopped before on ebay anyway. It looks like this is a secure 
payment method . But, again, I don't know.

Then, I found the payment method (same account) mentioned in several sites [2]
- online gaming (StarCraft) on Russia [2a]
- increasing your "russian manliness" [2b]
- Scammers on Russian brides agencies [2c]

They told me that they are based on Spain (of all places!) but their email 
address is from a free email provider that i never heard of  [3a], when there 
are many and well-known free email services in Spain [3b]

The cost of shipping is lower than expected. I won't complain about it. But 
I've checked the weight for the laptop in it's original box (Amazon) and that 
weight makes the shipping on both DHL[4a] and UPS [4b] is about  $170. And 
it's a bulky thing (I expect it to be), so it will probably be a little more. 
But the price goes up for  only ~$100 from the selling price. 

I don't know. Maybe I'm too paranoid (I'm a sysadmin after all). Maybe this 
is 
a proper way of doing business. Or maybe this is too good pice and it's a 
scam.

If you want to comment me on this by private email or through the list or 
both, great. I can provide the original emails if needed or any other 
information.



Salut,
Josep


[0]
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3406415096

[1] 
- WebMoney:
http://www.wmtransfer.com/
http://www.webmoney.ru/

[2a]
http://www.broodwar.com/
http://www.wgtour.com/news.php?idN=707&datab=broodwar
http://forum.starcraft.org.ru/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3412&FORUM_ID=43&CAT_ID=1&Forum_Title=%CD%EE%E2%EE%F1%F2%E8&Topic_Title=Rulez+Race+Wars
[2b]
http://www.good-penis.com/index.php (translation below)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?url=http%3A//www.good-penis.com/index.php&lp=ru_en
[2c]
http://www.antiscam.org/scammers/Elena_Loveland.shtml

[3a]
http://www.adios.net --> http://www.inbox.net/
[3b]
http://www.terra.es

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Josep L. Guallar-Esteve         Eastern Radiologists, Inc.
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