Scammers Abound And Being Ultra Weary
Not everyone that contacts me as a website designer is really wanting me to help their business. Well, not always in an honest way!
There are those that simply want to send me the money from another country before the work has even begun, and when you read it up they will send too much and ask for the immediate return of the overpay, which you dutifully do, and then receive their bounced cheque back. I was lucky enough to run a mile when they contacted me.
Then there is the fake holiday villa scam. Some people do set up quite good looking websites, for villas that do not exist. But when you are talking to them there is something wrong. Especially the moment that they ask you to accept payments on their behalf and to pass them on to the PayPal account they are using that week.
Even if you do offer to pay me for that additional service I want nothing to do with it! If you are receiving money across the internet then you receive it yourself. Don’t leave me open to accusations of not passing it all on to you and more to the point, why is your PayPal email address changing?
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