Phone bought by American to post to Nigeria

smartie1976

To avoid getting caught out as best you can, list the phone for UK buyers only.

towseriv

Okay,

The second 'buyer' has 'paid' me, This one could fool a new e-bayer who has not sold reasonable value items before. Some of the contents include:

This email confirms that Mr Bob Ikedia, have paid XXX@XXX.com £96.76 GBP using PayPal.

Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites
You should never give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal employees

I have blanked out my email, but also spot the gramatical error. It then follows,

Note: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 our customers service @ PayPalFunds@emailaccount.com for shipment verification so as to secure both the seller and the buyer

Anyone ever heard of ths sort of service? Of course not because it does not exist. Besides which what would stop you from making a shipping number up if this service did exist?

After that,

For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please review our Security Tips at https://www.paypal.com/us/securitytips.

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To safely and securely access the PayPal website or your account, open a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and type in the PayPal URL ( https://www.paypal.com/us/) to be sure you are on the real PayPal site.:

0775-1108-9321-3941-9139

Let us all note that the links are NOT to the real paypal site but should an unsuspecting person type this link in and then input the account detail, they will be stolen.

This is the first time this stuff has happened to me and to be honest if I were not used to selling smaller items I could be quite convinced.

towseriv

Just for a giggle I sent the 'shipping conformation number'

Hi,

The shipping number is XC3487DCV, please could you now credit the money to my account. I need it to pay for medicine for three little orphan boys that I look after and keep safe.

Many Thanks

Dom Jolly

towseriv

The 'buyer' has also sent the following:

Hi ,
I have made out my payment to you for this item purchase,So check your mail for the confirmation mail from paypal.Make sure you send the Shipment tracking number to( paypalfunds@emailaccount.com) for verifications so they can release the funds to your account immediately after you drop it off .Let me know as soon as you get it mailed out.Below is my son's address. Hope to hear from you soon.Have a nice day.

Sinope_2

we had a big rip off from a buyer from nigeria and have since learned its a hotspot for ebay fraud. You may be sent a fake paypal reciept so just be careful. We ended up having to relist it after 3 trys stating "NO BUYERS FROM NIGERIA ACCEPTED" i thought our auction would be targeted by an anti racist movement!!

Sinope_2

towseriv wrote:

The 'buyer' has also sent the following:

Hi ,
I have made out my payment to you for this item purchase,So check your mail for the confirmation mail from paypal.Make sure you send the Shipment tracking number to( paypalfunds@emailaccount.com) for verifications so they can release the funds to your account immediately after you drop it off .Let me know as soon as you get it mailed out.Below is my son's address. Hope to hear from you soon.Have a nice day.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is almost exactly the same as we got. Its all just a way of you posting it....

DONT!!!

towseriv

Of course I never

towseriv

The attempt at a scam continues I have now recieved the following:

We got the tracking number you sent to our customers service.However the buyer requested the item to be shipped via royalmail international signfor, We will like to know what courier service you used in shipping this item so we can verifiy and update your account as soon as possible.


Any question call +44702403496 or Contact our customer service at paypalfunds@emailaccount.com
Thank you for using PayPal®. We look forward in serving your online payment.
Sincerely.
The PayPal Team
PayPal Account Review Department.

achtunglady

thor wrote:

It makes you wonder what is it with Nigeria that they have so many scammers? It's almost as if they have some kind of school over there which teaches how to use ebay and part of the course includes trying to swindle mobile phones in this manner.

Yes theres a university dedicated to teaching them scams, a straight up non corrupt Nigerian told me this ( hang on, was he scamming me by telling me this hahahahah)

slowen

Am sure I read somewhere that scamming is one of Nigerias main sources of income (dont know if this is 100% factual)

If I ever get an email from someone from Nigeria wanting to purchase something I just go into autopilot mode and tell them where to go as they are all scammers.

I find it funny they way they come up with stories like the following when emailing you "I am buying this phone for my cousin in Nigeria who is a Dr and requires a phone urgently, I will send payment straight away and need you to send the phone straight to him" YEAH RIGHT