He must think I was born yesterday

fatboyonadiet

Sold an item on eBay yesterday and got a bit more than normal, was pleased but slightly cynical, checked the bidder out and he'd been bidding on a few laptops, by this morning he was NARU'd, then I get an odd e-mail (blanked out details for privacy reasons):

BRITISH POSTAL ORDER

IN

CONJUCTION WITH



Dear Mr John Doe,

Your £84.49 payment for Ebay item from Mr S C Ammer has been approved . Your payment is issued and will be sent by the close of the next business day after we receive the shipment tracking number from you.We are going to send the money order to your name and address below as soon as you have shipped the item.


Mr John Doe
United Kingdom.


Item name: XYZ
Item number: 123

Here is the address where the buyer wants you to send the item to
S C Ammer
United Kingdom.

This is the sample of the postal order that will be deliver to you after we have receive the shipment tracking number from you.



®Postal OrderSM :-£84.49
PIN Number:546





BRITISH POSTAL ORDER:
Showing the minimum denomination that can be purchased (i.e. £20.00)and the maximum of £500(i.e.£500.00) THE EASY AND SAFE WAY TO SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION MONEY,IMMEDIATELY YOU SEE THIS MAIL THAT SHOWS THE SAMPLE OF POSTAL ORDER PAID BY A BUYER (JADE COLE) JUST SHIP THE ITEM AND SEND US THE TRACKING NUMBER. BRITISH POSTAL ORDER:
Enlarged view showing area to write your name .BRITISH POSTAL ORDER:
Showing back of Postal Order, which needs to be filled by the sender.BRITISH POSTAL ORDER:
Enlarged view showing Counterfoil section that you need to keep.
Five £20.00 (i.e. Twenty Pounds) Postal Orders need to be sent, which will add up to £100.00 (i.e. One Hundred Pounds).



If we do not hear from you the payment will be retune back to the buyer,and we are waiting for you to ship the item and mail us the shipment tracking number so that we can send out your payment and if you do not send the necessary thing you are ask to send we will give you three day to decide after that we will send the money back to the buyer.
Thank you for using British postal order®. We look forward to serving your online
auction payment needs in the future.
Sincerely,
British postal order®
==============================================================
REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. FOR ANY ASSISTANCE,GOD IS GOOD& IS IN CONTROL

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BRITISH POSTAL ORDER

®2000-2005ukbritishpostalorder .

Followed by this:

HELLO,
I HAVE MADE THE PAYMENT ON MY WAY TO WORK THIS MORNING VIA UK POSTAL ORDER SERVICE.I KNOW THEY WOULD HAVE NOTIFIED YOU. SO I WANT YOU TO MAKE THE SHIPPMENT AND SEND THEM THE TRACKING NUMBER FOR VERIFICATION.
REGARDS,
S.

So I sent him this:

Hi, S, no problem, got the e-mail earlier so posted the item after work, I'll send them the tracking number now. Also I was just about to leave you some positive feedback but eBay says you're no longer a registered user - why?

I'm going to supply the company with dummy shipping number and let's see what his reponse is...

danmanchester

Now if you could pack a couple of bricks in a shoebox and send it COD that would be funny !

fatboyonadiet

Did think of that...Let's see if he responds before I decide to drag this one out, problem is he is based in this country and obviously has my details now

fatboyonadiet

The plot thickens, just got 3 e-mails in the space of about 5 minutes (can't be a coincidence, can it?!)

1st one says (after I gave them a duff reference number), note how the postal order is on the way to my door post! I don't even have one!:
HELLO,

YOUR POSTAL ORDER IS ON ITS WAY TO YOUR DOOR POST.

DAVE WILLIS,

UK POSTAL ORDER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE.

2nd says (again note the poor english):
HELLO,

WE WERE ABOUT SENDING THE POSTAL ORDER TODAY WHEN WE GOT THE REFERENCE NUMBER BUT WE CALLED ROYAL MAIL IMMEDIATELY AND THEY TOLD US THAT THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE REFERENCE NUMBER SO WE CALLED BACK THE POSTAL ORDER.

PLZ TRY TO CLEAR THE PROBLEM AND MAIL US A BETTER REFERENCE NUMBER THEN WE PROCEED WITH THE SENDING OF THE POSTAL OR WE CANCEL IT AFTER TWO DAYS.

LUCY JAMES,

Followed by 3rd from buyer (title of message was: I AM NOT HAPPY WITH YOU):
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[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]HELLO I WAS TOLD BY AN AUCTION PAY REPRESENTATIVE THAT THE REFERENCE NUMBER YOU PROVIDED WAS NOT VALID.[/font]
[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][/font]
W[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]HY?[/font]

Note how they all in CAPITALS with poor language skills, lets see how long I can drag this out for, let's put a delay of a few days on it with this e-mail:

Hello friend,

Hmmm, I'm not sure why that is, I have checked the number and indeed it is correct, I will double check it again later and contact Royal Mail myself to query this error, I am very busy in the next few days so it might be a day or two until I get back to you

Ciao for now...

rchddap1

You could always say that sometimes it takes a while for the Royal Mail to update their systems with all the relevant codes.

carol_a_3

You could say your door post is in for repairs!

fatboyonadiet

Might send him another one telling him please be happy with me as I'm working hard to sort this problem, will need to watch all my future auctions as he may get a new account and try it on again.

Anyone else had problems like this in the past? Especially when they're tried to pay by the UK Postal Order company? The e-mail addresses used give the following websites: www.accountants.com for the Postal Order Co and www.thefreesite.com for the buyer. Both of these are registered to US addresses and are search engine/directory type sites.

Bendybops19

Any updates?

Sounds like a biiiig scam to me!! x

Tojo_Ralph

Erm..... Did you check out the following? http://www.aryana.co.uk/

I'd suggest that Mr Fraydon Aryan is a good guy who is going to get his name blackened by scammers, after all The website has been around a while.

fatboyonadiet

Tojo_Ralph wrote:

Erm..... Did you check out the following? http://www.aryana.co.uk/

I'd suggest that Mr Fraydon Aryan is a good guy who is going to get his name blackened by scammers, after all The website has been around a while.

Hmmm, did search on that when I first got the e-mail but couldn't find anything, it does make it all a bit odd.

BB no updates reall just this reply in response to mine:
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]HELLO,[/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]I WILL AWAIT YOU REPLY.[/font]

Any suggestions for a reply? Might just go along the lines of problems with Royal Mail or the like, he hasn't told me why he's been NARU'd though, might put a dim witted reply like eBay has told me not to deal with you but you seem like a nice guy and I still want the transaction to go ahead, might also ask him if he's heard of Fraydon Aryan

jenpoptab

Just come across this thread, good luck with your reply, not sure what you can write as I'm an inexperienced ebayer really!