Seems a bit dodgy to me...

CyberWaste

Alright so I put my xbox 360 on sale on gumtree with all the games and stuff with it. Now today ive got 2 offers, one of which says they will offer me 800€ for it and want me to ship through fast fed ex to Nigeria as her husbands sister is working in africa.
The mailer is from America, and she said she will pay the shipping costs and the xbox 360 through paypal immediately. Can anything happen to me, I.E. if its a fake address I wont loose money will I, as in like no one will collect it.
Just Ive never done a deal like this before. Also, will paypal take a big chunk of that money, like a percentage of it?
Thanks any help welcome.

dudara

Moved to Online Buying & Auctions

dudara

WIZE

this is the second one i seen today
check this thread out it might help you out

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=295930

Its a scam

CyberWaste

Yeah, the thing that really made me wonder, was the fact that BOTH emails asked me to send by express delivery, and qoute them the shipping charges. Neither cared about the cost and neither tried to bargain with me. No offence, but when I saw Nigeria mentioned, from waht ive heard, theres many scams there.

rubadub

You should cut & paste the entire email here. Or just select a few words and put in inverted commas in google.

e.g.

"her husbands sister is working in africa"

This will show results for that exact phrase. Often scammers are lazy and cut & paste the same thing over and over. You might find other websites with people asking or warning about the exact same person.

BTW I would be 99% sure this is a scam, in fact 100%!

EDIT: Found this.
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:Ari-QeqrB2AJ:forum.kijiji.ca/about6769053-0-asc-30.html+%22working+in+africa%22+%2Bpaypal+%2Bhusband&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

Hello ,
Thank you for responding fast, i would have love to come and pick up this item and pay you cash but i am presently in Australia for a conference, so i will be shipping this item to my husband that went on a missionary trip to Nigeria, and i will be sending you an instant payment via PayPal , so do get back to me with the final cost plus shipping to the following address to pastor Femi,
20 Ekundayo cres, ijapo
City:Akure
State:Ondo
23434 Nigeria,
so do get back to me with the final cost plus shipping and also send me your paypal id so that i can transfer the fund for you ,
Thanks.

PS- her e-mail is eyeameileen@gmail.com... be wary!

Seems popular, look at these hits
http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&safe=off&num=30&q=%22working+in+africa%22+%2Bpaypal+%2Bhusband&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

CyberWaste

These are the 2 emails I got, directly copied and pasted:

Hi Mate
My name is Mrs Susan Larry Carlos a Doctor in United State Located at
Texas. i want to buy this item as a gift for my Husband sister who
is currently working on her project in Africa.
I want you to use Anpost Air Shipping OR FedEx Express Mail
Service For Delivery. due
to the matter of urgency as i want the package to get there very
fast and reliable.I'll offer you €760.00 EUR for item plus the
shipping fees.email address (susan.larrycarlos@gmail.com)
send me your paypal money request for the payment and your full name.
this is the shipping address

Olawale Martins
1B Omoniyi street
Itire/Ijesha
Lagos 23401
Nigeria

Thanks

Email: Mrs Susan Larry Carlos (susan.larrycarlos@googlemail.com)

i am here for a course i will be back ending of the year...never mind i will be paying you extra cash for shipping this item..so email me the total cost.and pay pal money request details and i will arrange your money immediately...thank you!

Email: Jason Born (ann.chinedu@yahoo.com)

Both emails came within 5 minutes of each other, and funny both are on courses in the countries :rolleyes:

I have sent them back emails saying I will accept bank Lodgements just to see what they say.

WIZE

There seems to be alot of this at the moment .
But im sure alot of people will fall for it .
I think if Nigeria is involved dont waste your time

calex71

Oh how i lol'd at the fact she needed to tell you she was a doctor

She knew about An Post too ha ha ha


You were right to be suspicious op

Mimikyu

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madmik

loads of ways,think about it for awhile

rubadub

The Nigeria Scam Help Page

When searching text in emails it is best to pick some with no punctuation or symbols or words which might change, like name or descriptions. Look for odd combinations of words

"i want the package to get there very fast and reliable"
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22i+want+the+package+to+get+there+very+fast+and+reliable%22&btnG=Search&meta=

"due to the matter of urgency"
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22due+to+the+matter+of+urgency%22&btnG=Search&meta=

dez_warlock

LOL at "Jason Born"!

jor el

You got an email from Jason Born in Nigeria, and you're wondering if it's a scam? Duh!

How can they scam you through Paypal? Well, the easiest is to use a cloned credit card, or a compromised Paypal account. The actual card/account holder will be given their money back, FROM YOU, and you'll lose the money and the console.

madmik

another lovely trick is to send you a cloned email from paypal that looks exactly like the emails paypal use

and is sent from a similar style email addresss like "paymentservice@paypal.com"

You get a typical email saying youve just recieved €500 and shoulfd ship the item to following address:

Some people will ship the item when the emaail from "paypal" tells them they have just recieved a payment

nd

Yeah if Nigeria is mentioned forget it. And be very carefull as the email "paypal" send you often looks like a very genuine paypal email. You should forward it to spoof@paypal.com


As for paypal charges on legit payments. It's I think 3.4% of the amount + 35 cent.

bernobaby

Dont Do It She Scammed Me Before Susan Larry Carlos She'l Make Eh Seem Like She Put The Money In Ur Paypal Account And Let You Send The Item Den Say Der Was A Mix Up Dat She Put More Money In N That You Have To Send Her Money Back And So On An So On!... But Dont Do It Its All A Scam Lil Tramp If I Got Me Hands On Her Id Kick Her From One End Of The Road To The Other!...But Reali She Gave Me The VERY SAME Story That Its a Birthday Present For Her Husbands Sister!

CyberWaste wrote: »

Alright so I put my xbox 360 on sale on gumtree with all the games and stuff with it. Now today ive got 2 offers, one of which says they will offer me 800€ for it and want me to ship through fast fed ex to Nigeria as her husbands sister is working in africa.
The mailer is from America, and she said she will pay the shipping costs and the xbox 360 through paypal immediately. Can anything happen to me, I.E. if its a fake address I wont loose money will I, as in like no one will collect it.
Just Ive never done a deal like this before. Also, will paypal take a big chunk of that money, like a percentage of it?
Thanks any help welcome.

kdoher

Cannnot believe what I've seen in this thread how can some people be so evil.. Just about to sell stuff on Ebay for the first time and will definitely not be offering to ship to Nigeria.. But i thought if it was me once i got the email from paypal i would immediately check my account just to be sure (And i definitely will from now). Is there any other way other than the fake email that they can try.... Things like that would worry me

Nody

They are not evil; they are scammers. My favorite one was the American lady who spent half a mil to get her inheritance from Nigeria after having the bank, the police AND her friends telling it is a scam but her insisting she was not stupid or easily fooled.

To Kdoher; don't click any links in the Paypal/Ebay mails; they can point to some interesting places if they are faked and you're better of typing in the address yourself.

Also limit your listing to only ship to Europe; this don't stop them all but it reduces the number of dummy scams they try (it is a pain to keep on relisting an item because someone hit buy out listed in UK and insist on shipping it to Nigeria as you then have to go dispute the fees with Ebay etc.).

kdoher

So if i list as only Europe will that stop them automatically bidding.. Had a incident recently as i live on the border there was an item i wanted to buy which was uk shipping only so have family in the north so usually use there address, in the last minute of bidding i put in the highest bid but automatically came up this bid did not register because my paypal address was not uk.:mad: Will this happen for me?

jor el

kdoher wrote: »

Is there any other way other than the fake email that they can try.... Things like that would worry me

With Paypal, they can use a stolen card, or compromised account. When the card owner finds out, they'll get their money back, and you'll have it taken away. You've no choice in this, and there's bog all you can do about it.

Another scam is to pay by bank draft (fake) and they send you too much. You lodge it, and return the excess (usually by Western Union), then the bank draft bounces a week later.

blooeyes

Hi. Don't post anything to Nigeria. I fell for it, more fool me!!!
My daughter sold her ipod nano on Ebay and everything looked legit!! Had an email from paypal asking for the tracking number before they would release funds into her acc.
we did this, now her ipod on way to nigeria and no money!!!! :mad:
Theey had hacked into someone's acc so we saw all the positvie feedback and thought all ok, but wasn't!!!