Camera question

The Birdman

Hi,
I'm trying to sell a Canon 400D and I get this strange mail she is offering to pay through Paypal and pay extra for P&P and when I asked where she is living she sent me this response:

"The extra money is to cover the postage and packaging as I am currently on duty inside a ship at the sea in UK as a naval officer.
I am actually buying the item for my son who is currently working with a company abroad

My son Address is
Monday Osagie.
7 Logudu Road 15, Elere Area,
Ibadan, Oyo State,
23402, Nigeria.,

He is presently an Electrical Engineer in one Telecommunication Company over there.
Kindly ship the Item directly to him via registered post. Mark the package as a gift item with the note "A GIFT FROM YOUR MUM" boldly written on the body of the package"

This is when I got suspicious! Should I be!!

The birdman

amdgilmore

Do you really need us to tell you?

mayo.mick

Seems legit :rolleyes:

pete4130

scam scam scam.

google nigeria scam or nigeria 49 scam. have a look on the motors forum for scams too....more common there.

pete4130

just type his address into google....it'll answer all your questions

The Birdman

I know I know! Just thought I'd check:(

The Birdman

So how do they get money off me through Paypal..... ?

pixbyjohn

The Birdman wrote: »

So how do they get money off me through Paypal..... ?

If you go along with the sale you will have sold your camera for zero return. Thats how they get the money from you, google it as said above.

DaireQuinlan

The Birdman wrote: »

So how do they get money off me through Paypal..... ?

They never pay you. You get some bogus official looking email saying that the funds will be released when you mail the parcel and send them the tracking number. Paypal doesn't work like that.

The Birdman

pixbyjohn wrote: »

If you go along with the sale you will have sold your camera for zero return. Thats how they get the money from you, google it as said above.

Obviously I would not let the camera go until I had the money in my Paypal account I was just wondering how they did it. I've just been hit by another one and the give away is "thank you for the fast reply" when I had left it 4 hours to reply!:rolleyes:

The Birdman

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

They never pay you. You get some bogus official looking email saying that the funds will be released when you mail the parcel and send them the tracking number. Paypal doesn't work like that.

Yea I'm used to using Paypal so I would never fall for that. Unless Paypal could tell me that the funds were secure. Thanks "DaireQuinlan" I was just wondering how they were doing it.

AnCatDubh

mayo.mick wrote: »

Seems legit :rolleyes:

pullandbang

No it is legit, Monday Osagie is related to the wife of the former Minister of the Economy who has over $80,000,000,000,0000 in an account which is being transferred to mine as soon as I send my bank details.

So go ahead, you'll have no problems with the sale.........

humberklog

Send him a "gift from your bum" and explain that something must have got lost in translation.:)

The Birdman

humberklog wrote: »

Send him a "gift from your bum" and explain that something must have got lost in translation.:)

I did already!!:D

dinneenp

Do what I did...reply and say "OMG, my cousin will be in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria on holidays in a few weeks.
I've given him your address and he'll call into you in person and you can pay him cash.

The Birdman

Nice one. I'll try that!;)

Nforce

The Birdman wrote: »

Hi,
I'm trying to sell a Canon 400D and I get this strange mail she is offering to pay through Paypal and pay extra for P&P and when I asked where she is living she sent me this response:

"The extra money is to cover the postage and packaging as I am currently on duty inside a ship at the sea in UK as a naval officer.
I am actually buying the item for my son who is currently working with a company abroad

My son Address is
Monday Osagie.
7 Logudu Road 15, Elere Area,
Ibadan, Oyo State,
23402, Nigeria.,

He is presently an Electrical Engineer in one Telecommunication Company over there.
Kindly ship the Item directly to him via registered post. Mark the package as a gift item with the note "A GIFT FROM YOUR MUM" boldly written on the body of the package"

This is when I got suspicious! Should I be!!

The birdman

Mike Litoris

humberklog wrote: »

a "gift from your bum" .:)

Man that's brilliant!!:P

kelvicmam

This is a total scam.
PayPal do not operate in Nigeria. This has been reported to PayPal and the person blocked.

Effects

Nice work Kelvicmam. Glad to see you're on the ball and got this sorted out for the original poster in record time. How come nobody else could see it was a scam?

kevc2

You should check out scambaiting, some hilarious stuff!

Westlifegurl1

Never ever ever send anything to nigeria the place is full of scammers no matter what they offer you or what position they put you under

peterk675

Stay well away.

dinneenp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ng7PDjTTw