im being scammed !!!! help

pitdog

hi i listed an item for sale yesterday with a buy it now option. i listed it as uk only but on getting home from work today the item has sold on buy it now to an american address to a buyer which has just joined today, no feedback score etc etc so the alarm bells are already ringing furthermore i checked my hotmail account and have recieved the following email from some nigerian ..............PayPal Authority is using this opportunity to tell you that a transaction of
£90.00 GBP will be credited into your paypal account which
is:(rickjnr_1@hotmail.com). So your money will be transfered into your account
with us immediately you ship the item to the buyer's shipping address provided
and you mail us the tracking number.

The buyers shipping address has been confirmed by paypal authority.
Wemimo Michael,
No 5 Nini Ola Street,
Ipaja, Lagos.
Nigeria.
23401
SHIPPING SERVICE OPTION :

YOU CAN USE THIS COURIER COMPANY FOR THE SHIPPING.
===================================================================================
***ATTENTION***
The order has been APPROVED, you CAN NOW ship the merchandise to the buyer's
shipping address. You are expected to make the shipment with 24hours of
receiving this Payment Approval Notification and get back to our
Costumer/Technical Dept. with the tracking number for Shipment Verification if
not the payment will not be credited into your acccount.
The tracking number will be used to confirm and verify shipment and within
minutes of the item been shipped to the buyer's shipping address provided, your
payment will be transfered successfully into your account.The tracking number
should be mailed to our customercare centre.Feel free to contact our customer
care centre @ ( payconsultancy@consultant.com )
Thank you for using PAYPAL® We look forward to serving your online auction
payment needs better in the future.

Thank you for using paypal®
The PayPal Team.

it is obviously a scam but its only the third item ive sold and don't have a clue what to do about it , any help would be greatly appreciated

skintchick

Email the buyer and tell him you won;t sell to the US.

Email the second highest bidder and offer them a second chance to buy (not sure what it's called).

essexhoney

first of all open a NPB dispute.
Select buyer has not paid and then select the buyer requested shipment to an uncomfirmed address.

madauri

That email doesn't look to me like a paypal contact. And the general tone of the message looks like "over-reassuring", so to say.
Are you sure he has bid for that? That you haven't received instead one of those messages sent randomly to people to make them give their details?
I would contact ebay and paypal services, directly, and tell them about this. Do not use any link included in this guy's messages.

"The tracking number will be used to confirm and verify shipment and within
minutes of the item been shipped to the buyer's shipping address provided"
And this must be some sort of joke. They don't expect anybody to believe it, seriously?

pitdog

hi thanks for your help, only problem is the auction wouldn't of ended yet if it wasn't buy it now so i don't think i can open a dispute thing grr
there hasn't been any other bids i only put the thing on yesterday ... i really want these !!!!!!!s to get shagged off a sex crazed rhinocerous !

essexhoney

ooh also forward the email to spoof@paypal.com and as madauri said definatly dont click any links in it!

pitdog

no ive just checked it isn't even a proper paypal email but ebay have taken my listing off as sold even though i stated uk only ???
thanks for your help so far though

essexhoney

once you go through the NPB process you will recieve your FVF's back, then once its closed (which i think in this situation is instant?) Relist it and when it sells they will then credit back your listing fees also

sare_2

Mobile phone by any chance?

Classic Nigerian based scam.Fake PayPal email too.
Open a NPB on him, and relist your phone.
Don't bother getting into communication with him either.

essexhoney

pitdog wrote:

no ive just checked it isn't even a proper paypal email but ebay have taken my listing off as sold even though i stated uk only ???
thanks for your help so far though

still forward it to spoof@paypal.com at least that way you will know for certain it is dodgy and they will be aware of it - whether they do anything about it though is something else entirely

pitdog

thanks you guys ... yes it is a mobile phone ( take it im not the first)
ive relisted it thanks paying particular attention to uk only and removed the buy it now option ......
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=017&item=270029530440&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
not trying to sell it you guys !!!! just thought you might like to see revised relist !! thanks again