Am I going to be scammed

boyzie

Hi

The person who has won my ebay sent me a dodgy email earlier in the week, shown below is it legit or am I going to be scammed?

Hello, Compliment of the season to you over there, . I saw your item (1) and i will like to buy it for my son that will be doing his birthday next week , so mail me now the amount you will be selling it and the UPS express shipment . i will be paying you through Western union money order . is urgent so mail me your name address ,so i can pay by money order and you can ship it to him in africa. this is the address of my son suzzy williams 2 gadol st ifako ijaiye agege lagos nigeria 23401

Pete.g

NEVER NEVER accept western union payment or send/agree to send any items to Africa, Nigeria ect not sure how it works but THIS IS A SCAM!!!!

Bin it and relist your item.

Pete.

heathen

yep as said above as soon as western union or africa is mentioned run a mile

soolin

I'll second (or third) that, it is definitely a scam.

Soo

angelcake

I agree!! SCAM!! stay away! best thing to do to avoid this is state that you will only send items to the country's you have listed and addresses stated on ebay!

Glad you spotted it before going ahead wiv transaction! report to ebay!

boyzie

there were two scammers bidding against each other, what prats, i hate them.

The next legit bidder is like £100 pounds down the bids, anyway I have given the legit looking ebayer the second chance option, anyone have experience of the 2nd chance option.

Are these prats going to ruin ebay?

Im really mad

RACHIE77

Does anyone else know how this works as these people have tried to contact me several times?

From what I could gather they send you an email that is supposed to be an official email from Western Union telling you that the money has been approved and you are to post the item - I guess some people fall for it and post the item and never see the money? thats just my theory but these people are really annoying, can't ebay do something?

Its sad cos there are probably lots of African people who would like to buy stuff off ebay but no-one will send anything to them now!!

And very annoying too!!

David_Brent

It's not in Ebay's interest to do anything about it, they are purely profit driven, as long as they get their fee's they are happy, they aren't prepared to invest time or money looking into things like this....

dappanumber1

hi, have a look at this it explains everything about these scammers, and how they work. the person on this site tries to scam money off them, and has been successful a couple of times!
hope it helps! cheers, adam

http://www.419eater.com/

RACHIE77

okay, thanks adam! but is anyone else still confused? i'm seeming to catch the drift of whats going on but missing the point completely -- i'm sure its just me thats still befuddled but can anyone give me a simple translation??

bleugh

its simple really, the other guy guessed it

They offer payment
you receive a fairly genuine looking 'payment pending' email
a few hours later a 'payment cleared' email
could be from western union/ whatever

buyer says that payment will be sent tracked and only gives out tracking number when they receive a valid tracking number from you (i.e. you post and never hear from them again!)

seller thinks the official payment cleared email is enough and posts the item

the end

morale of the story NEVER POST AN ITEM UNLESS YOU HAVE THE CASH IN YOUR HANDS. PAYPAL CAN AND WILL REMOVE MONEY OUT OF YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME