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Ebay scam much?
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| PlayerLac |
So I just decided to post a laptop up for sale the other day with a Buy It Now price of $500. Now I doubted anyone would pay that much for this P.O.S. but figured that some dumbass would come along and buy it anyway. And after three hours of being listed. BOOM. Sold. But then I get this email. Something smells fishy eh?
| quote: | Hello Nicholas Y Stasiuk,
Compliment of the season to you. I am Mrs Sharon Williams from
NY,USA.I'm contacting you concerning your item #6885459992 on Ebay which i eventually became the winning bidder for your item.Morever i am in UK for a church programme and i intend sending this item to my daughter who works in the United States Embassy in lagos and i will handle the shipment expenses.You shouldn't worry about the shipping fees to her okay;I'll take care of it with my Personal
FedEx Account # after payment so you won't need to pay any money when mailing it to her over there.I will be making my payment to you via PayPal.
So get the package ready for shipment immediately today.Make sure you send me your Paypal Email Address, so i can immediately make out my payment to you for
this item purchase and you will receive the payment confirmation from Paypal.You are to mail it out today,immediately you get the confirmation mail from PayPal.Mail me back it's urgent.
Regards.
Sharon Williams |
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| InterMilan31 |
dont do that its a scam
alot of the scammers sound great but they always use a religous or chairty group in their messages.
so yea reply YOU no really notify ebay ASAP |
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| PlayerLac |
| I have a feeling that if I were to reply with my PayPal email address they would spoof an email from PayPal saying I received the money from her haha. Or some BS like that. Yeah so I emailed Ebay, I guess I'll just wait for their response. |
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| DJ Eco |
| for someone named Sharon Williams, her English is pretty awkward, especially stuff regarding money or companies from Lagos, there's a lot of internet fraud that originates or refers to Lagos, the capital of Nigeria... don't do it |
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| Piet |
lot of people have been scamming ebay scammers like the one who appears to have contacted you.
What they do is fill a box with broken pc parts and old sandwiches and heavy worthless junk and like the scammer said he pays for shipping. You might end up paying like 25 dollars for ups to come pick it up or something but the scammer pays like 150 for shipment to UK or wherever. The scammer ends up never paying you the money for the laptop but you do get to laugh a lot when you get an angry angry email when he opens it lol.
let me see if i can find some examples of people doing this, hmm here is one old one: http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/ (long)
there are others i dont know if i can find the links anymore |
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| Choobak |
| quote: | Originally posted by Piet
lot of people have been scamming ebay scammers like the one who appears to have contacted you.
What they do is fill a box with broken pc parts and old sandwiches and heavy worthless junk and like the scammer said he pays for shipping. You might end up paying like 25 dollars for ups to come pick it up or something but the scammer pays like 150 for shipment to UK or wherever. The scammer ends up never paying you the money for the laptop but you do get to laugh a lot when you get an angry angry email when he opens it lol.
let me see if i can find some examples of people doing this, hmm here is one old one: http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/ (long)
there are others i dont know if i can find the links anymore |
That p-p-p-powerbook scammer scam is classic. Apparently there are plenty of stupid people who fall for these scams. I remember seeing something about a 14 year old nigerian scammers who makes millions...
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fort...78124/index.htm |
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| EtherealSL |
| omg, the zug site is priceless |
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