Caveat non-emptor

Now this is a dangerous scam--watch out for it.

You'll get an e-mail saying: "Your credit card has been successfully charged for $69.95." Then you'll probably say to yourself: "I didn't order anything," which means that you'll want to cancel the order--for which they conveniently provide a phone number to contact "if you never purchased this product." Of course, to cancel the purchase, they'll need to get your credit card number--which they never provided in the original e-mail. Very clever, and possibly very effective, because they want you to panic about having your credit card charged fraudulently and contact them to correct it.

The real kicker, though, is that the web site "processing" the transaction does not actually sell the products alleged in the e-mail--and even has a warning on its own website warning users about the scam.

While clever, though, the spammers (or, in this case, scammers) weren't quite clever enough. The game is given up, in this particular case, because the e-mail address to which this message was sent is a mailing list. Nice try, though.