Mobile phone to Nigeria

Angela

Item won by person in Malaysia here is her 1st email

HELLO,

I would like to pay for this item via postal order,right now
i'am presently in malaysia, and i want to give it to my friend as a
surprised birthday gift, so i will like to know if you can ship it to
nigeria,i dont mind paying any amount for the shipping cost,please if you
can do this for me i will be very grateful.if you accept, kindly send
your full name and address which am going to send the payment to. Here's
the shipping address.
Removed
Nigeria
and also i will like you to give me
the full quote of it including the shipping cost to lagos nigeria, and
also i will like you to give me your full neme and address so i can
made the paymant to you ASAP.
Please Reply As Soon As Possible.

I replied saying I only take paypal her response

Hello,
Thanks for the quick response, i want you to aswell understand that as i have stated in my previous mail, that i don't have a paypal account because i have been scammed, a seller asked for my paypal account info, and i gave it to him and he received his money and he did not send out my item so i decide not to use it anymore and i don't want to be a victim anymore, please i want you to understand what i mean, because am really afraid , so i decide to use uk postal order as my prefered payment method, i will arrange for the payment and you will receive it within 3 working days which will be easier for you to cash at a nearby post office, and for the shipping cost, i don't mind paying any amount for it, i will be very grateful if my favour will be granted,if you are okay with it, kindly send me the item and shipping cost to nigeria including your full name and address so i can arrange for the payment. look forward to hear from you.
Thanks.

Is this a scam as she is not asking for bank details?,and I would not post untill postal order received.

Any help gratefully received.

juno

Anyone asking to send things to Nigeria (especially phones) is trying to scam you!

windym_2

Scam. I have had almost an identical email! They usually send you a cheque for too much money saying its from friend/work and can you send cheque for the difference back. Thats the one I had anyway.

Sturlos

hi, id avise totally against completing this sale, as one of my mates was ripped off for three mobiles from someone doing the same kind of thing using nigeria!!

you can withdraw from completing the transaction! just state to ebay that the the buyer was not compleing the transaction within the normal requirements!

:mad:

danmanchester

Mobile phone + Nigeria + postal order = scam! 100%

Relist and block countries you don't wish to post to or offer to the next bidder as a 2nd chance offer if the bid amount is acceptable.

shelly

I know all about not sending to Nigeria and maybe I'm being dumb this evening but if someone pays by postal order and you don't send the item until you have the cash then how can they scam you?

Like I said before....maybe I'm being dumb but I don't see a problem with postal orders.....least they can't be charged back like paypal.....maybe I'm missing something....

masonic

shelly wrote:

I know all about not sending to Nigeria and maybe I'm being dumb this evening but if someone pays by postal order and you don't send the item until you have the cash then how can they scam you?

Like I said before....maybe I'm being dumb but I don't see a problem with postal orders.....least they can't be charged back like paypal.....maybe I'm missing something....

In theory it should be ok. The postal order will be a forgery and should be spotted as such when you try and cash it. But, if it is not spotted straight away, you could end up having to explain your way out of a fraud investigation.

Browntoa

they email you a link from a site called postalordersuk or something similar, it escapes me at the moment !!...

that is where the scam is...they are not "real" postal orders but an online scam

ianonline

Is this person a newly-registered eBay member with zero feedback, per chance:question: :think:

Browntoa

found this in USA

http://www.pinnbank.com/content.asp?id=626&cid=1

and here

http://scamvictimsunited.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=818&

and here about Nigeria

http://www.africamasterweb.com/AdSense/NigerianUSmoneyOrder.html

Froggitt

Send them a phone directory in the post.....with a second class stamp on it.