Posted by: EbayIdiot
08/08/2006, 02:08:54
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Check out these emails from Nigerian scammer:
(note: I have changed some personal information)
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From: jamesbluntpinkle@yahoo.com
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Subject: You Won eBay Item: Longines Swiss Authentic Gold Quartz Ladies Wrist Watch (120014108000)
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 8:28 AMI'm Pleased to be a winner of your auction.I live in US but presently on official assignment to Phillipine base on the nature of my job [voluntary social care worker]..I'm relatively new to Ebay as you can see,I have never bought anything on this site. I heard its very convinient and easy thats why i'm trying it now.This item is a gift for my Son who is studing at University of Ibadan in Nigeria, I'm buying it for him as he requested for this and to show him i care about him due to distance between us. I will be paying you from my paypal account....and i will be paying you 100USD for shipping of this item to ibadan Nigeria where my son reside and I will also like you to send it through USPS GLOBAL GUARANTEED.
This is the shipment address:
Tola A A
No8 Ajobo Close,
Elewura Challenge,
Ibadan,
Oyo-State,
Nigeria.
23402
West Africa.
Do get back to me ASAP _____________________________________________________________
Then I got an email from:
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From: service@paypal.com
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Subject: Instant Payment for your eBay item 120014100000 from jamesbluntpinkle@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 9:45 AM PayPal Dear ********, You have an Instant Payment of $600.00 USD from jamesbluntrust1 (jamesbluntpinkle@yahoo.com) View. the details of this transaction online
Payment Details from James Blunt
Item Number Item Title Quantity Price Subtotal
120014108100 Longines Swiss Authentic Gold Quartz Ladies Wrist Watch $500.00 USD
$500.00 USD Postage & Packing via Standard Delivery :
(includes any seller packing fees) $100.00 USD
Postage Insurance (not offered): $25.00 USD
Total: $600.00 USD
Note: Delivery Information
Address:
Tola A A
No 8 Ajobo Close
Elewura Challenge
Ibadan
Oyo State
Nigeria
23402 West Africa.
Address Status: Confirmed forex trading This PayPal® payment has been deducted from the buyer's account and has been "APPROVED"but will not be credited to your account until the shipment tracking number is sent to us for shipment verification so as to secure both the buyer and the seller. Below are the necessary information requested before your account will be credited. Send tracking number to our customer service helpline through this mail pay.palverificationteam@accountant.com and our customer service care will attend to you. As soon as you send us the shipment's tracking number to us for security purposes and the safety of the buyer and the seller,the money will be credited to your account.Do not send to the buyer the reference/tracking number for the safety of your money. **PLEASE NOTE**
Once shipment has been verified and the tracking number sent to us,we will verify and credit your account.
You will receive a "CONFIRMATION EMAIL" from PayPal® informing you that the Money has been credited.The payment has been made under your name. Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team PayPal (America) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United America as an electronic money institution. PayPal Email ID PP757
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The above email looked very official and it said is was from a paypal address so I didn't think twice, I was more amazed that the dude wanted to send me $100 for shipping!
Then I got this email from the guy:
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From: jamesbluntpinkle@yahoo.com
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Subject: Re: You Won eBay Item: Longines Swiss Authentic Gold Quartz Ladies Wrist Watch (120014100000)
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 11:00 AM
hello,
thanks fro he mail sorry for these please do have the item shipped via USPS PRIORITY MAIL,not USPS GLOBAL GUARANTEED. please do get back to me asap.
REGARD
JAMES
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All said and done I shipped the item but not as requested, I shipped it guaranteed with insurance and proof of signature. I just realized I got scammed when I got home entered the tracking number and sent the email then I kept checking on ebay and on paypal and realized there was no money and payment was not received. This was my first time selling an item on ebay and I didn't know what to check for and had never heard of the Nigeria scams. I am hoping to recover the item by cancelling the shipping tomorrow, but either way I got scammed big time and feel like a real idiot, all the signs were there, but I was too excited to see them.
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Posted by: M.A.
08/14/2006, 18:55:16
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We just got the same email. Thanks for posting this so I could verify it was a scam
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Posted by: ebayconscious1 ®
07/10/2008, 08:20:05
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ok exactly the same thing has happened to me, very real looking emails from paypal. its the first time ive ever tried selling anything on ebay and im very worried about sending the item as a guy at my local post office advised me not to send to nigeria. Ebay has advised that my account has been suspended as i have not sent and tracking numbers to paypal but it sounds sooooo dodgy!!! arghhhhhhh
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Posted by: john howden ®
07/14/2008, 06:39:57
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I have just sold an item worth £350 on a local Stuff 4 Sale site.The buyer said he was from Nigeria and was buying this for his girlfriends son but he is working in the US so could not collect the item.The son I assumed was in Lagos,Nigeria as this was the address he gave for posting.He wanted to know the total price and shipping cost and said he would pay immediately.I asked him how he intended to make payment and he said he would use Paypal.At first I thought that this would be secure until I made some investigations on the net and found that there is a scam going around involving Paypal.All the Nigerian scams appear to be coming from the same locations.
Anyway,I told this guy that if he wanted to complete the deal he had to send me cash in British ££s and that I wouldnt accept any form of money transfer whatsoever from Nigeria.I am just waiting now to see if he replies,but I doubt this very much.If it does happen,I will place another posting.
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Posted by: Mike88 ®
08/25/2008, 20:39:17
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Yup I got scammed by the Nigerian bastards too! here is the emails. They sent this email after I posted the ad to sell a smartphone: Hello there,
Thanks for the swift response, i would have love to pick up the item by myself but i am presently in Holland for a conference and i will be away for three months, so i will be sending it to my daughter that went on a research trip via
this address below: Name: Adewole Tolu
Adress:2 Adinlewa Street
City;Akure
State:ondo
city:23434
Country:Nigeria so i will like you to get back to me with the final cost plus shipping from canada post office (air) and also send me your paypal id or you send me a payment request to my email address allfordar@yahoo.com so that i can arrange the payment for you, i await your response and the payment will be made as soon as i get the info from you...
Thanks -------
So i sent the person an e-mail telling them the final cost and what not and got this email
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Dear (my email address)
This email is sent to you to get you informed that a payment has been made for an item bought from you, from one of our clients "Darlene Gibbs". So we request that you ship the item in the next 24 hours and send the shipments tracking number to us so that we can verify that the item has been shipped, as fund will be credited into your account and any effort not to do so will cause the stoppage of your money until we verified you have sent the item to the address provided.
This is just to make sure that both the buyer and seller are satisfied and to protect them from been fraudulent transaction.
This PayPal® payment has been deducted from the buyer's account and has been "APPROVED" but will not be credited to your account until the shipment tracking number is sent to us for shipment verification so as to secure both the buyer and the seller. Below are the necessary information requested before your account will be credited. Send tracking number to us or email us through this mail pay.status@usa.com
and our customer service care representative will attend to you. As soon as you send us the shipment's tracking number to us for security purposes and the safety of the buyer and the seller,the money will be credited to your account.
**PLEASE NOTE**
Once shipment has been verified and the tracking number sent to us, You will receive a "CONFIRMATION Email" from PayPal® informing you that the Money has been credited.
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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Ok, sounds pretty legit right, they want the tracking infor so they can check that the item is in transit, ya! so they get the item and not pay! - bastards! ----- I got this email from "paypal" actually a fake paypal
Dear customer ,
We have received your mail regarding the reference/tracking number as proof of postage, In the next 48 hours you will receive a confirmation email from us informing that your account will be verified.We are very sorry for the delay in the crediting of your account because we are doing the maintanance of our system and as soon as we finish the system maintanance ,we will send you an email that your account has been credited. So be relaxed and feel free to contact us anytime (pay.status@usa.com).
Note:Your Continuous patronage is our assurance of existence and in exchange we assure you of our fast and efficient services at all times..
PayPal is the fast easy safe way to pay online.
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The name of the person that was suppose to buy this was DARLENE GIBBS!!
e-mail they used: allfordar@yahoo.com This is where the situation lies, I have lost $600.00 and a cool cell phone, and some bastard in Nigeria has it now! - someone should bomb that whole f**king country. Get rid of all the scum! So watch out!! pce!
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Posted by: admin ®
08/26/2008, 08:22:00
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Mike88 Said:
> someone should bomb that whole f**king country.
> Get rid of all the scum!Mike88, let's try to avoid bashing the whole country for the actions of a few on this forum. Nigeria is a beautiful country with many honest people, with a huge poverty problem. The reaction is understandable given your personal losses, but we should know better. Regards-Admin
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Posted by: Jillian ®
09/10/2008, 15:16:10
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Just happend to me, but I caught it in time and stopped shipment, but three others tried to do it to me.
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Posted by: Laura ®
09/22/2008, 19:41:24
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Thank you everyone for your posts. I was selling my laptop on craigslist and received emails from two separate people offering to pay $550 or $575 total (to cover shipping) for a laptop I'm only asking $400 for. However, the mix of both formal and very bad Engish, as well as the willingness to dish out twice as much as it costs to send the item to Nigeria, made it seem extremely fishy. Not only that, but the grammar in the email from "paypal" was terrible and didn't even originate from paypal's usual address. Everyone's posts here helped confirm my suspicions that this was a scam, even tho it didn't happen on ebay like so many of them do. Thanks for your help!
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Posted by: Denny B ®
09/23/2008, 17:45:01
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Yep! Had me goin for a min. The PCs they tried me for they offered $500 above cost. Check these out. Dear dennyb66,
Hello, Could you please tell me the condition of your item,i can as well offer $1,950 including shipping cost waiting for your soonest response
Trudy
- softlyspokenlady Dear dennyb66,
Dear Seller,
I just went through the listing of your item and would like to know if i can purchase it for an
amount of US $1,500.00 including shipping internationally USPS International Express Mail days delivery. If so,i would be happy if you can close the bidding and send me a PayPal payment
request to my mailto:m_morris39@hotmail.com I am serious with this as i promise not let you down with the purchase of the item. You can also IM me a mail to: m_morris39@yahoo.com because i don't check my eBay message for further correspondence, i will surely get back to you. Looking forward to hearing from you.and you can add me for instant message to this email address below :Yahoo Messenger: m_morris39,Msn : m_morris39@hotmail.com or AOL screen name = mmorris3312@aol.com
- lauraleung79 Almost suckered me in. But in the first mailing, Nigeria set the alarm bells off.
An hour later I got the second e-mail! Coincidence? I don't think so! Watch your asses.
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Posted by: Eli ®
09/30/2008, 22:59:44
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Don't feel so bad the same guy is trying to do this with me. I am in the same situation. Did you ever get your item back and money back for the shipping?
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Posted by: poopme ®
10/08/2008, 03:08:27
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i almost got scammed too. fake paypal email and all. so i had this idea of how to shut down and punish those scammers. 1. set up an expensive listing of some awesome thing
2. wait for a scammer
3. ask scammer if they want additional pictures
4. attach virus to email/picture file
5. shut down their computer I'm not a computer genius so i dont know if that's even possible but its certainly exciting to think that maybe we can start shutting off some 250,000 scammers in nigeria
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Posted by: ihatescammers ®
10/16/2008, 07:15:29
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My finacee has also been hit by this guy m_morris3@hotmail.com and had to close her ebay account and email because of it. absolute scum of the earth. i really feel like treating him to some of his own medicine!!! really id like to get a hold of these guys and break every scamming finger would make it rather difficult to type. anyway rant over. anybody got any ideas on how to fight back?
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Posted by: andy cho ®
11/12/2008, 21:31:34
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Hi, i Just recently got scammed the sameee EXACTT WAYY. I sold a pair of shoes and some lady offers me 480. which isnt outlandish. but at the time i was expecting around 300 due to the poor economy. so i jumped on it. and like you i did not seee the signs. she asked me to ship to nigeria. i agreed and so called "paypal" sent me confirmation saying that i will be credited upon tracking receipt. so i went and sent it. now its been two days since i sent it monday and post office was closed yesturday. now i have no oppurtunity to stop shipment and no money. I think all Post offices should either impede any further shipment to nigeria or at least verify the buyer. I believe that either this forum or anybody should stand up and do something about this. its been going on for years now.
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Posted by: Lynn Norris ®
11/12/2008, 21:40:32
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I am an idiot too. Let's start a cult! I fell for the same friggin thing and I am a teacher! My whole story is on my blog site
http://englishbulldogscambaxandbelinanigeria.blogspot.com/I post this blog and everyone elses site, blog, story, whatever everywhere I can. I won't stop ever. Needless to say we have a reputable breeder down the street and will have our baby this coming spring. If you would like help finding a reputable breeder we have real connections now and would be happy to help. Good Luck!
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Posted by: Zac ®
11/15/2008, 14:59:47
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Just last month i was scammed into sending my laptop to Nigeria and by the time i realized it was too late to recall and the USPS would not help at all nor give me any info about what Postal service it transfered to in Nigeria. Hopelessly i contacted the national courier service in Nigeria via email and over the course of a month was actually able to have the computer recalled via permission from Brian Mcivor of USPS in DC. The computer had a dent but to have it returned after thinking it was gone and feeling like an idiot for getting scammed was nice. Hopefully this can help someone. Nigerian Postal Service : Nipost.gov.ng
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