ebay scams

[tris-]

whats the latest ones going around?
i put an item up for sale yesterday with a buy it now.
check this morning and someone from germany has used the buy it now and requested an invoice.
ther bitch who bought it lives in germany.
their rep is private and they only registered yesterday.

scam?

 

[tris-]

ok looks like it is a scam as i just reciebed this email

Hello seller,
It's my pleasure to inform you that your item i bought off ebay has been paid for by the paypal...... the payment has been made including the shipment cost to my son's address because i want this to be sent to my son in Nigeria under the below address....

NAME.............OLAMIDE GBOYEGA
ADDRESS........67, IJU ROAD
AGEGE
LAGOS STATE
NIGERIA 23401

Please as soon the payment has been sent to from the paypal, i will like you to get the item ship as soon as possible and get to me so i can know what to do about this....
Many Thanks and God bless
Laura


what action do i take now with ebay?

 

[Tootz]

Yep its a scam. As soon as you hear Nigeria you should run a mile. You can find a pretty good info page about it all here:

http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=redalligator1

Don't bother contacting the buyer either as this will give them your email address.

 

[tris-]

Yep its a scam. As soon as you hear Nigeria you should run a mile. You can find a pretty good info page about it all here:

eBay View About Me for redalligator1

Don't bother contacting the buyer either as this will give them your email address.

they already have it as they sent an email directly to me from their yahoo account. thanks, i will report it to them then.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I wonder how people in nigeria ever get anything actually done

No, don't post that nigerian prince video, yes we know about it

 

[BloodOmen]

Only ebay scams that I know for 100% is the nigerian ones, someone will offer to buy an item from you for more than your selling it with a sob story like "Its a present for my son that lives in nigeria" and give you a nigerian address to send it to... once you've sent it they take whatever money was paid back via paypal I asume feeding paypal some sort of lame story. If that happens to you just contact ebay and explain with a link to the thread and you don't get charged for the item post.

Dunno about germany ones tho.

 

[Congax]

Only ebay scams that I know for 100% is the nigerian ones, someone will offer to buy an item from you for more than your selling it with a sob story like "Its a present for my son that lives in nigeria" and give you a nigerian address to send it to... once you've sent it they take whatever money was paid back via paypal I asume feeding paypal some sort of lame story. If that happens to you just contact ebay and explain with a link to the thread and you don't get charged for the item post.

Dunno about germany ones tho.

Somehow I get the feeling you didn't read the rest of the topic

 

[Hawkwind]

Nigeria, Lagos is crime central for scams shortly followed by Mumbai, India. For Credit Card Fraud Dubai is up and comming scam central. Fake machines and even recently tampered real machines with data loggers inside!

 

[Himse]

Nigeria, we have internetz, but no food.

 

[Maeloch]

Dunno about scams, but was looking to buy a mountain bike earlier this year and the amount for sale obviously nicked is nuts: seller with near 0 rep shifting multiple bikes, photos always taken at night up some alley wall, lot of shill bidders with near 0 rep, price starts at nothing, seller obviously knows nothing about the bike, etc).

eBay policy is not to remove stuff from auction unless reported to them as stolen by a law enforcement officer and would think the police have better things to do than follow up suspicions of buyers so seems quite a merry little trade.

 

[Ezteq]

I wonder how people in nigeria ever get anything actually done

rofl im just imagining an emergegy call

"help, police im being mugged and raped and i think im about to be murdered heeeelp!!"

"where are you calling from please sir?"

"33 acasia street, nigeria"

"nigeria eh?...."

*dial tone*

"hello? hello? aargh, umph ouch aaaaaaaaaaarrgh!!"