What would you do if someone gave you money for nothing?

Well,I would worry about refunding it without talking to support first. It could be taken as a sign you had something to do with the laundering err fraud.....(If there is any....)

It is my understanding that for money laundering to work, the flow does not involve the exact same amount of funds bouncing back and forth between two parties as single payments.

Ok. What if it is a scam? I can't begin to fathom how it would work, but what if it were a scam that only appeared that you had been sent this money from this person when in fact it came from someone or something else in the hopes that you would refund the person that it appeared that it came from? Did I make that understandable? What if?

Scam?

I was definitely sent the money by the avatar rather than an object. So if this is a scam then it's pretty poor as I would either, Keep the money myself, or pay the exact same amount of money back to the original payee.

Money laundering?

God knows. I see hundreds of transactions every week and I cannot possibly account for the validity of every L$ I recieve, nor is it my responsibility to. I make allot of money from SL and if LL ever tried to hold me accountable for the origins of my customers L$ then I would take legal action against them.

Solution?

So in reading peoples comments I have come up with an idea. I have sent this person L$50000 worth of product. I sent individual items so the name of each item would appear in my transaction history. The person was offline so I guess i'll wait and see if they accept my inventory offers and have anything to say about it. So no longer money for nothing as Dire Sraits would say....now they have just invested in some fo the best prefabs in SL! If they want to complain about what I have sent them, then great!!. At least it would open up a dialogue.

I can now assure myself that I have earned this money (in a quirky sort of way) and I dont think I have cheated anyone. They were given ample oportunity to explain themselves but chose to ignore me. If they want to turn around and ask me for their money back at a later date, then fine, i'll give it to them and they can keep the prefabs as well. It's a gamble, in that i could end up giving the money back and giving away all that product for free but I doubt that will happen, and if it does I will AR them for playing Mind Games! lol

Now i'm the sort of person that if I found a purse or wallet in the street in rl, I would take the money and throw the wallet into the bin.

However in SL I try to act differently, as I am (supposed) to be a trustworthy business person and thats the role I have played successfully for the past 4 years.

So 1 week ago today a resident who will remain nameless paid me L$50000 for no reason. I checked my entire sales history and this person has never been a customer. I checked my traffic monitor and this person hasn't even visited my stores in the last 30 days so not even a potential customer.

So taking into account my above documented SL honesty I sent an IM to this person telling them of their error, asking them why they paid me L$50K and offering their money back. Didnt get an offline message so assumed this person recieved the IM. From their profile I know they are english speaking and that if they chose to read the IM they would have understood it. So I wait 24 hrs. No response.

Very odd thinks Porky.

So 24 hours after the IM I send a notecard entitled "YOU PAYED ME L$50K BY MISTAKE" again asking why they had paid me 50K and offering a refund. The notecard inventory offer was accepted within 30 secs so this person was online.

No response.

So yesterday, 6 days after I recieved the payment, I IM'd and sent a notecard again. Again they seemed to be online when I sent the IM and they accepted the notecard within a few minutes.

No reposnse.

This lack of response has now annoyed me as I want to know 1) why they sent me the money and 2) why they wont respond to me when I try to offer it back.

I know I could just send them the L$50K back and wash my hands of this but that will pay my tier next month so unless they respond I will keep it and spend it.

What would you do at this point if you were me?

Isn't there some mad rule about money that comes from dodgy sources is clawed back and then 50% on top of that is clawed back too?

Maybe someone paid the mystery person $L 50k for no reason three months ago...

...and after fits of anguish, confusion and lack of understanding they just paid it forward?

Coulda happened multiple times, too...



Strange stuff... maybe it's like the bottle imp or the monkey's hand or something.

*cues strange music*

LOL

So maybe after 3 months of anguished sleepless nights I will be compelled to pass on this L$50K to the next unsuspecting victim. Hands up who wants to be cursed next?

I am a computer tech. One day I was working at a client's home. I fixed all his problems and he was really happy with my work. As I was packing up he gave me a $20.00 tip. I thought, "Great, I must have made happy customer." Later he came into the shop for more work. I filled out a work order and told him the charges. He immediately started bitching that he thought he would get a break and that he gave me a tip and basically treated me like I was an ass. So it wasn't a tip, it was a bribe. He figured I now owed him a favor.

In light of this experience, I would be suspicious. What do they want from you in return?

Well the only thing I have to offer is a wonderful range of prefab homes and textures all of 100% original design and extremely well priced.

Now you might be thinking "what a shamless plug for Hydro Homes (search listings for more details)" and you know what.......You would be right

What would you do if someone gave you money for nothing?

i would be worried that LL was going to take it from me after they realized where the stoeln credit card money went... AND, they could take a penalty too, AND they could ban you.