Pick your brains

bcmf

I am selling a slightly damaged fone on Guntree. I got a reply from someone asking a price.
I told them the price €100 and they agreed and offered €120 to cover postage. see copy of e-mail below of course numbers and names deleted

'hello there,
thank you for the fast reply.
i am willing to proceed with the transaction now and pay you 120€ which include p&p.kindly login to your paypal account and select the request money button located at the top of your paypal account homepage and send the money request directly to my paypal account id which is XYZXYZ@yahoo.co.uk so that i can submit payment to you via paypal right now as paypal is safe, fast and easy to send and receive money online.

If you dont have a paypal account just logon to www.paypal.com and set up your paypal account, after setting up your paypal account you locate the request money button located at the top of your paypal account home page, use it to request money directly from my paypal account which is XYZZYX@yahoo.co.uk once I receive your money request from paypal, I will submit payment to you immediately via paypal asap.
You can also call me on 123456789

Get back asap.'

Now something in the back of my mind smells a rat. From what I know the fone number suppplied seems to be a UK mobile number.
Thoughts

ttm

Try google I found ......

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/070359848464

Edit> and this has lots of comments....

http://jakebillo.com/apparently-you-can-get-scammed-using-paypal-and-gmail/

JJ

I smell a scam. Usually when someone offers more than you're selling for, they'll send you a spoof PayPal email to make you think that you received payment.

bcmf

I asked for an address and he came back with a Nigerian addy. Thanks but no Thanks.

bcmf

ttm wrote: »

Try google I found ......

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/070359848464

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Ha that is exactly the same phone number in my email.

ttm

bcmf wrote: »

Ha that is exactly the same phone number in my email.

:cool: :cool: :cool:

What did you expect from one of the classic Nigerean scams

The std reply is to say that your PayPal address is something like fcukuscammer@scamalot.com

JJ

That would probably go over his head but you could have a bit of fun with this scammer. Keep stringing him along, you'd be doing the internet world a service.

bcmf

JJ wrote: »

That would probably go over his head but you could have a bit of fun with this scammer. Keep stringing him along, you'd be doing the internet world a service.

I'm game. Tell me more.

JJ

I'd recommend checking out this site for tips:

http://www.419eater.com

Happy scam baiting!