Besides being a serious outdoor enthusiast, I'm also a photography freak. In order to get my hands on the equipment I want I use ebay for trading. I recently decided to downsize my equipment and put up on ebay a lot of some cameras and lenses. Every day I receive about 2-3 emails saying:

I would love to buy your cameras and I'm willing to pay more than you are asking, I'm also willing to pay more than enough for fedex overnight shipping. I don't have Paypal account so I hoped that you can arrange to take a credit card payment directly. I live in Indonesia. Thank you.

Now this is scam of the scams. Sounds tempting but I did small research on that and called my bank as well as a friend of mine that works in the bank. He said that they are flooded with stolen credid card charges which originated in Indonesia. So if you are a merchant please be aware. If you are a regular Joe like me and you have an access or possibility of charging credit cards (thru a friends store or else) please excercise caution. Even if the charge was approved you will still loose the money.

Matt

Hear hear! Good advice.

I work for an internet company, and the only forms of payment that we accept are credit cards and wire transfers.

My company, due to the disproportionate amount of credit card fraud, has blocked the ip address blocks of the following countries:

Indonesia, Phillippines, Singapore, Maylasia, Bulgaria, and a handful of others I can't remember off the top of my head.

Careful with your money, folks. Don't get ripped off. Save all of that money for survival goodies.