Dogy ebay buyer trying to scam me - what do I do?

singlemumstudent

Someone with 0 feedback bid and a London address won an item I listed for £110 on Sunday.(I had forgotton to change the settings to stop people without feedback bidding) There were no other bidders.

Since then, I have recieved 2 "Service at Paypal" emails, basically telling me that the money has been taken from the buyer's account and is ready to go into my account once I sent them the shipping number. (Yeah right, of course I'm going to send them stuff before they paid for it :mad: )
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT][FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif] I also got this email :

[/FONT][/FONT]HI SELLER, I AM HAPPY TO INFORM YOU THAT I HAVE JUST CONCLUDED WITH PAYMENT OF YOUR EBAY ITEM VIA PAYPAL.I MAKE POSTAGE COST AS £50 TO WEST AFRICA BECAUSE I WANT THIS ITEM TO BE SENT TO MY BOSS FOR HIS BIRTHDAY GIFT AS AM OUT OF UK NOW FOR BUSINESS TRIP IN CHINA.THE FUND HAS BEEN DEDUCTED FROM MY PAYPAL ACCOUNT.PLEASE I WANT THIS ITEM TO BE POSTED OUT TODAY VIA ROYAL MAIL INTERNATIONAL SIGN FOR , SO THAT IT WILL REACH DESTINATION BEFORE THE DATE.PLEASE HELP ME PACKAGE THE ITEM VERY WELL SO THAT IT WILL BE PRESENTABLE FOR THE OWNER.HERE IS THE DELIVERY ADDRESS ........
Danny Temitope
22, Adeshina street
off Awolowo Road
Ikeja
Lagos State.
Nigeria.
23401.
NICE DOING BUSINESS WITH YOU.
REGARDS
Harry

:eek:

I also got 2 emails from "ebay" (definitely fake cos they're not in my ebay messages).
One says something about the buyer having been suspended but now has their registration reinstated, the other says I have received an unpost item strike, and that if I don't send the item within 24 hours I will be prohibited from using ebay.

What is the best way of dealing with this?

lisawood78

Put in a NPB, get your fees back and relist.

Oh and block the moron!

Smart_But_Casual

lisawood78 wrote: »

Put in a NPB, get your fees back and relist.

Oh and block the moron!

Also contact ebay and pass on all the emails, including headers.

Also forward the emails onto [EMAIL="spoof@paypal.co.uk"]spoof@paypal.co.uk[/EMAIL] and [EMAIL="spoof@ebay.co.uk"]spoof@ebay.co.uk[/EMAIL]

sequence

Don't forget to give him a fake shipping number and ask him does he want it gift wrapped :rotfl: Keep him waiting

cyberbob

Oh buy the way you cannoy block zero feedback bidders from bidding on your auctions. Why would you want to we all had to start somewhere. Ive had more problems with people with loads of feedback.

StaffsSW

cyberbob wrote: »

Oh buy the way you cannoy block zero feedback bidders from bidding on your auctions. Why would you want to we all had to start somewhere. Ive had more problems with people with loads of feedback.

You can block 0 feedback bidders, but only if they do not have a credit registered on file.

It's useful in these situations as well as the "Block bidders registered in countries I do not ship to" - that kills off virtually all our Nigerian friends in two ticks.

cyberbob

stevew8975 wrote: »

You can block 0 feedback bidders, but only if they do not have a credit registered on file.

That would only block about 50% of them