I dislike Scammers intensely - there's not much worse than someone trying to scam you out of a few dollars. I had such an episode yesterday;

The Purchase (Yesterday at 20:10)

This email confirms that you have received a payment of $0.01 USD from XXXxxxxx(info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com).

The digitial download script that I use has been screwy for the last few days and did not send me an email to let me know of a purchase. So I log into Paypal and see that indeed someone has paid me 1 cent.

The Next Email (Yesterday @ 20:22)

Hi,

Havent received the download link for
PLR Manna - Synonym Replace Tool yet!

Please send the same asap.

Thanks.

Hmmmm, something must be up with my download script, as the guy sounds OK and is expecting the product to be sent…I go off to test out the script to see what's gone wrong…whilst I am checking the script;
Another Email received (Yesterday at 20:24)
This email is the one that comes directly from my script to me to let me know of a sale (or not as the case maybe).

Subject: Sale cannot be completed

Product ordered: PLR Manna - Synonym Replace Tool
Listed price: $75.00
Price paid: $0.01

Listed currency: $USD
Currency on the transaction: $USD

This sale (PayPal transaction number: xxxremovedxxx) cannot be completed because either the product you ordered does not exist, because there was a price discrepancy, or because we have detected the possibility of fraudulent activity.

So, my script is working OK, it's just the host is being slow at delivering email - good in one respect, but bad in another (as I now know that this person is a scammer).

Another Email Received (Yesterday @ 20:30)

Can you sell the script to me for $20.00 ? .. thats the balance left in my pay pal account .. totally out of cash .. would like to see if success is written in my destiny with your tool ..

Just let me know if thats possible .. would appreciate you a lot in that case. Its 1:00 am in India .. a quick reply will give me a cool sleep .. else would keep on thinking the whole night as to what your reply will be ..

My Reply (Yesterday @ 21:08)

Had you not tried to get the product for 1 cent (and therefore try to commit
fraud), I would have considered it.

Good luck to you with your money making adventures.

I then log into Paypal and refund his 1 cent payment along with a short note asking that he never attempt to buy any of my products again. And for me, that is the end of it. I received no payment, he received no product - he had a go at scamming me and I spent 30 minutes clearing up after it. No harm, no foul.

This morning I wake up to find another email awaiting;

Yes .. I tried to get it for 1 cent .. but can you still
consider me? It would be really nice if you can.

You'll note that he has not apologised for trying to scam me out of $75, which leads me to think that doing this sort of thing is "normal" for him.

I won't reconsider my stance on it, but had he actaully apologised I probably would have let him do some bartering for the product he wanted - this guy runs a website design outfit, and I am always after good designs for my clients.

Oh well, chalk another one up to experience. Perhaps what we need is some sort of scammers hall of fame where we all list people who do chargebacks, make fraud purchases, try to scam us and so on