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A victim's account of a delivery courier scam above began circulating on the Internet in mid-October 2008: While many of the forwards later identified the fraud as having occurred in the North Vancouver Area or happened to our friend who lives in North Vancouver, in actuality the crime took place in Sydney, Australia, between 1 October and 3 October 2008. During that brief span, the thief, posing as a delivery man bearing flowers and wine, robbed ten Sydney residents of $32,000. As described in the e-mail, he would telephone potential marks, announcing that he had a delivery for them, then shortly thereafter arrive in a white van emblazoned Express Couriers on its side. (Express Couriers is a non-existent company.) After presenting them with flowers and wine, he would ask for credit or debit card payments of $3.50, which he would then run through a wireless EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale) machine set up to skim not only the cards' numbers, but their PINs as well. Later that day, he would proceed to drain the accounts associated with these cards at local ATMs. The robber was apprehended a few weeks later during a traffic stop on the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway and charged with ten counts of fraud. This account led to the spread of a warning that was oft-repeated on the Internet:
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