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flick24

Hi every1 I need some advice quick I am selling an item on viva street and I have someone who is interested but I have a feeling about it and wanna know what you think viva street has a bit about scammers etc and something is telling me this doesn,t seem right really I would prefer paypal its first time I have sold online funny thing was last person I was gonna sell to wanted me to send to her grandson in africa coincidence?

Hello
Thanks for getting back to me.My Name is kate from the united state Georgia,am a doctor by profession.am willing to by your lovely item,for my son who has just traveled with his Dad to work for the United state missionaries in West Africa Nigeria.i would have loved to received and handle the item down here in the state Myself but Due to my work Load you know as a doctor i will not be chance to do that so i will like you to check the postage cost to Him and get back to me with the final asking price including the postage fee. get back to me with your final asking price for the item including your Full Home Address for me to send you the money via cash.i will be sending the money through united state money order,it will be deliver to your door step or if you like me to send the money through Bank deposit,so as soon as you can get back to me with all the details i will go right and issued out the money.i await to read back from you soonest.

Do have a lovely day ahead

mountainchrisriver

This is a scam... :rolleyes:

flick24

thanx for replying whats the scam ?

geordie_joe

flick24 wrote: »

thanx for replying whats the scam ?

I used to get a lot of these emails when I sold things through my local advertising paper. The ads also went onto the web site.

The most common scam is for them to suddenly find out "their brother in London" is desperately short of cash. So can they send you a cheque which will include a couple hundred pounds more, and can you send this extra to their brother in cash as soon as you receive the cheque.

Obviously the cheque bounces.

The one thing that marks these scams is they never know what you are selling, they just refer to it as a "your lovely item", or something similar.

This is because the software they use can't pick out what you are selling, it can only send you a generic email.

Always beware of people wanting to buy your item when they don't know what it is or how much it costs.

PROLIANT

Sounds a bit like the old 419 scam, have Nigerians got nowt better to do than try and scam the white man?

flick24

thanx if I am going to sell this do you think paypal and postal order is a safe option if they are really interested then that shouldn,t be a problem?also it would be acceptable you think to only send on receipt of payment like on ebay but then again how do they know I,m not a scammer?(Im not )but am really disappointed just had another offer which coincedently came as soon as I had told the doctor from missouri(yeah right)that I would only take payment via paypal for overseas buyers.This buyer was offering u.k cheque but I think it was from same person dodgy as might complain to viva street they must have multiple email.

hollydays

Scam.......................is it a mobile phone? Why would a Doctor not be able to spell United states?You cannot be serious.

flick24

No its a jacobsen music player got it for christmas but never used it really annoying I was gonna put it on ebay but then found viva street but every single time I get someone interested turns out they are a scammer every1 wants me to send to their son,grandson in nigeria keeping sense of humour about it but just hate these scammers.
might have to rethink where to sell viva street just seems to throw up scammers

geordie_joe

flick24 wrote: »

thanx if I am going to sell this do you think paypal and postal order is a safe option if they are really interested then that shouldn,t be a problem?also it would be acceptable you think to only send on receipt of payment like on ebay but then again how do they know I,m not a scammer?(Im not )but am really disappointed just had another offer which coincedently came as soon as I had told the doctor from missouri(yeah right)that I would only take payment via paypal for overseas buyers.This buyer was offering u.k cheque but I think it was from same person dodgy as might complain to viva street they must have multiple email.

You are not going to sell it, well not to them anyway!

This is a scam, the best thing to do is ignore it.

The reason why you got the second email was because you took the bait for the first one.

Now comes the adding more to the cheque and can you send it to my brother in London who needs cash tomorrow.

hollydays

geordie_joe wrote: »

I used to get a lot of these emails when I sold things through my local advertising paper. The ads also went onto the web site.

The most common scam is for them to suddenly find out "their brother in London" is desperately short of cash. So can they send you a cheque which will include a couple hundred pounds more, and can you send this extra to their brother in cash as soon as you receive the cheque.

Obviously the cheque bounces.

The one thing that marks these scams is they never know what you are selling, they just refer to it as a "your lovely item", or something similar.

This is because the software they use can't pick out what you are selling, it can only send you a generic email.

Always beware of people wanting to buy your item when they don't know what it is or how much it costs.

Confuse them by emailing showing great enthusiasm,asking which of your items they require..

geordie_joe

hollydays wrote: »

Confuse them by emailing showing great enthusiasm,asking which of your items they require..

I used to tell them the item would cost £18,000,000 including postage and they reply saying it was a great price.