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Oh how I love ebay; and having my own pet Nigerian scammer
Topic Started: May 14 2008, 02:44 PM (204 Views)
Jelly

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I sold a phone on ebay and since the listing finished (the final bid was a Chinese girl, living in the USA) I've had dozens of emails from a nice Nigerian man...sorry, no, from Ebay, Paypal and, best of all, the FBI...I'm a crime lord :D

we began with:

This message is from eBay .

We are contacting you about the following item:

Sony ericsson W880i handset only new (250246321154)

The buyer has made payment for your item and the item is yet to be posted to the given address in Nigerian .We will like to know if you have posted the item so that your account can be credited immediately you forward the tracking number to us .Note that you have committed yourself that you are going to send the item out.


Please respond by May-13-2008 so eBay knows whether you have agreed.
Respond to this notice or your account will be block.




***Please note***

1. eBay transaction must be complete between you and the buyer.
2. Get the item shipped as soon as you received notification of payment made from PayPal.
3. Due to past problem we had with seller refusing to shipped item after fund has been credited into there account ,We now alert PayPal to hold your funds untill you had shipped the item and confirm the proved of shipping(Tracking number as well as Scan receipt for item shipped) before your fund will be credited into your account from by PayPal.
4.Tracking number as well as proved of shipment must be sent to PayPal and eBay only with 12 hours after notification has been sent to you.
5.. Refusing to shipped out item to the address given to you by PayPal means you have gone against this rules and that may lead to the closing of your account as well as Legal action taken against you.


This is a new measure is been taken for safety precaution and secure transaction between the Buyer and the Seller.

Please note: You and the buyer will still be able to leave feedback for each other regarding this transaction.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation in this matter. Please don't hesitate to contact us directly through this email if you have further queries or require assistance.

Regards,

Customer Support (Trust and Safety Department)
eBay International AG

and then I got personal emails...


hello ,

i m did sorry for the delay is payment. i hope you must understand
that i had to get done with my ebay account first and confrim my receiver address
who happen to be my cousin on a short course in NIGERIAN company .
i had also payed an extar fees for the shipping and insurance cover
to be shipped via Royal Express mail. i await my shipping notice
as fast as you can amke the shipment .

below is the shipping address confrim my ebay and Payapl.

Name: Olayori Babatunde Edward,
Address: Plot 4 Oduduwa street,Oluyole Estate,.
City: Ibadan,
State: Oyo State .,
Country: Nigeria.,
Zip code: 23402.,
Telephone: +2348058976330
Get the item shipped thanks.

Then my continueing to ignore (and report) all the emails got me this beauty this morning...

Dear Valued Customer,

It is important we know the status of the item bought otherwise, legal action may be taken against you since you have not replied to the confirmation of payment made to your account by our client via PayPal.We request for the Scanned Receipt and the Tracking Number to prove postage of the item in less than 24hours and we will fund the money into your account or face the consequences of LEGAL ACTION.
We believed you entered into bidding agreement by requesting money through PayPal,and by non response to the payment confirmation made to your account you have violate the eBay and PayPal agreement. However the buyer has already contacted us in other to make report about your non response.We are ensuring to make PayPal a safer place, therefore we need to set confidence on our users.

Therefore, if your Money is credit into your Account before the shipment of the item,that means the item will not be shipped to the Buyer. From IC3 we give you 48hours(2days) to ship the package to the Delivery Address given to you by your buyer,and also send the Shipment Tracking Number immediately to us to verify the shipment.Immediately we confirm the shipping.You will receive a confirmation e-mail that your account has been credited.

NOTE:
Failure to Abide to this means your Name and Address will be forward to the law enforcement Agency in your Country to get you Arrested, because you are practicing Scam, And your Account with eBay and PayPal will be BLOCKED and SUSPENDED , In order to free yourself from this'' Ship the package within 48hours and send the Shipment Tracking to PayPal for them to Verify. If you have any comment on this issue do not hesitate to contact us.If the information you wish to provide pertains to an emergency situation, please contact us at (232) 304-3300. Although we check our e-mail frequently, we do not consider it to be an alternative to telephonic contact in emergency situations.Feel free to contact us directly.


which MUST be real because they've copied and pasted an FBI logo in and everything...and we all know the FBI have customers and deal with ebay fraud quite regularly...

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Genius!

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Failure to Abide to this means your Name and Address will be forward to the law enforcement Agency in your Country to get you Arrested, because you are practicing Scam, And your Account with eBay and PayPal will be BLOCKED and SUSPENDED , In order to free yourself from this'' Ship the package within 48hours and send the Shipment Tracking to PayPal for them to Verify.


I can't believe you are practicing Scam, Jelly. I thought you were a good person!! (DQ)
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SO WHERE'S MY FUCKING PHONE?!
It's a glitch! An incredibly specific glitch!
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lori
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Maybe I'm slow, but what exactly are they trying to accomplish here? They paid, right? And, of course, you sent the item... so what, exactly, are they wanting?

I appreciate that this is teh Scam, but... I don't get it.
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They are trying to convince Jelly to send her phone to the address they are giving her - instead of the buyer's address she has from eBay.

They aren't the ones that paid - the scammers are in Nigeria. The buyer is actually in United States. They are attempting to intercept the phone.

From what I understand, scammers will look at recently sold items on eBay and attempt to intercept the mailings by contacting the sellers and changing the mailing address.

Fuckers.
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Ooooh. See, if I were as good as Jelly at Scamming, I'd have figured that out.
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I had to have Euph explain it to me.

He stays home all day, you see.
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:huh:

the two of you scare me.
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In my defense, I'm battling a nasty sinus cold right now.

I couldn't even figure out how fast I would have to be driving to drive 70kms in 20 minutes.

Yeah.
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I took a painkiller a little over an hour ago. :P
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See? And Lori's on painkillers. She's blitzed out like Michael Jackson.
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Yes. I am talking about you. Fuckstick.
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Actually - no, they haven't paid at all.

They're saying that the buyer has given the money to Paypal, but that Paypal won't release the money into Jelly's account until she sends the phone to Nigeria and provides a tracking number to prove it's been sent. Which is utter bullshit, because Paypal doesn't work like that.

They've sent her emails claiming to be from Paypal and from eBay to attempt to convince her that the rules have changed, and now she won't get her money until she sends the goods.

She hasn't responded, so they have accused her of "scammer the buyer". :lol:
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Jelly

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As always the monkey is right; I haven't had any money from anyone, and I've had to relist the phone (and already had two morons email me saying they'll pay £300 plus £50 postage to Nigeria and they need the phone a.s.a.p. - I'm rather bored of this)
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Have eBay or Paypal responded to you yet? The real ones, not the fake ones. :)
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I have the Sony Ericsson W300i...I took Plague's picture with it.
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Wow - the Nigerians would pay fuckloads for that!
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Apparently!

The FBI would probably intercept it on it's way, though. I'm sure it violates the international TOS somehow.
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Jelly

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I had a reply from ebay; apparently, those aren't genuine emails! :detect:
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Shut up!


Also, "International TOS"= :D
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