by Jillian
Fri Sep 16, 2011 2:12 pm
An article from Internet Business Law Services, here: http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_p ... ws&id=2456 explains how US participants in scams originating from overseas are legally responsible. In my experience, many of these people start out as victims, often romance or employment scam victims.
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Just as the Internet, the criminal mind does not have boundaries. In the United States, Internet shoppers were victims of an Internet fraud scheme that involved United States and foreign participants. The foreign schemers would pose as sellers of goods on eBay and other Internet auction sites. Individuals in the United States would collect the payments, keep between 25-40 percent of the payments, and wire the remaining "profit” to the foreign schemers. Obviously, the Internet buyers never got their merchandise. What would be the cause of action against these Internet schemers?
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