Ebay - Be Careful.

Rip_Uk

Rip_Uk

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There are people buying items and asking you to send the items to Nigeria as a gift for they're friends, they will then pay into your paypal account and either withdraw the payment while it is pending or paypal will cancel it due to there not being any funds in the person's account to pay for the transaction. If you encounter anyone do not send your item and contact ebay/paypal imediately for a refund.

Be Careful.
 
Why are you telling us this though? Has it happened to you?

Usually, I'll wait for all payments and such to clear up before shipping out. Shipment should always be of confirmed address in paypal if that was me in those shoes.
 
20 year old news.

Such scams in different forms has been around forever, the www has only made it easier.
 
Tweaker's right, my father used to get the emails like 10 years ago from Nigerian scammers claiming that he has inherited 100 million dollars, but he needs to put forth a $25k down payment to recieve it. I also almost got scammed myself when selling my PSP. They claimed they needed it in like a week due to ther son's birthday, I was all ready to sell it, but something clued me in, and i decided to write back a nasty email.

It's the second largest industry in Nigeria, the country makes so much money, so they just turn their backs on it, it's very interesting/frustrating.
 
It's called a 419 scam.

I do something called "scambaiting", where I set up an email account, and sign guestbooks which ask you to leave your email, so the mugus (the Nigerians who do the 419 scamming) harvest those emails from the guestbooks, and send you those emails asking you to help them with whatever they want (usually something like transferring $100 million of someones money to your bank account).

Once I get those emails, I basically just waste their time. I keep making bumps in the road (asking them to see multiple documents before I conduct business; once they send the documents, I tell them that these aren't the ones that I requested, so they are forced to send new ones), which wastes their time and potentially keeps them from scamming a real unknowing victim.

If you go to the site 419 eater, you can see how a professional scambaiter has been able to make some of the Nigerian scammers to carve things out of wood and send the carvings to him, along with other things.
 
computerhakk said:
Why are you telling us this though? Has it happened to you?

Usually, I'll wait for all payments and such to clear up before shipping out. Shipment should always be of confirmed address in paypal if that was me in those shoes.
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Yes on the psp I supposedly sold. The only reason I didn't send the psp is because they paid me in € and not £.

And yes, the payment cleared but paypal put it on hold and I can't use my paypal account. They sent me an email saying not to send the item if I have not already because I will lose out on the money and not the scammers.
 
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