Foreign scammers!

[Mk2Jo]

We had an enquiry at work in Dec from a company in Dubai. We googled the company name and couldn't see anything about them and thought it may possibly be a scammer as they were looking to order large quantities of our product. My boss says to send them a pro-forma invoice and make them pay up front to see what they do and see if it is a genuine buyer.

 

Sent them the invoice mid Jan and got an email promising payment of the £19600. Then today I got another mail saying the money would be in our bank shortly but that they had made an accounting error because of the quotes and they had instructed their bank to pay us £54500!! lol ... so now we have to wait and see if it arrives :lol:

[Mrs O/H/C]

Be interesting to know what happens , if anything

[Mk2Jo]

I've already contacted the fraud dept at our bank and they have said to call them back if the money comes in. My boss reckons they will contact us next week asking for the overpaid money back before we've even got it. I remain sceptical lol