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Old 08-11-2006, 01:38 AM   #1
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Default scammer bought my xbox on ebay
Great. Now that I finally thought it was sold, I get an email from the buyer who has no feedback and has made it private:

Hello ,
Season's Greetings to you.I am Mark Smith from Orlando, Fl ,US.I'm
contacting you concerning your item on Ebay which i eventually became
the winning bidder for your item.Morever i'm presently serving our
beloved nation here in with the United Nation and i intend sending
this item to my son who works with the American Embassy in Nigeria as
a visa Officer.So i will like you Ship the package via Global Express
Guaranteed Non-Document or USPS 2-5 DAYS POSTAL SERVICE Shipping to
Nigeria and I will like you to go know the Shipping cost and calculate
the shipping cost and the item for Payment get back with the amount i
will be paying immediately..I will be sending you my payment via
PayPal,So kindly send me your (PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS) So as to
immediately make out my payment.Make sure you get the package ready
for immediate or next day shipment okay?.Expecting your reply so as to
immediately make out my payment.
Regards
Mark Smith



fricken nigeria scam !@@#@$#%#%#%. [cursing]

So I'm trying to contact ebay about it. This is definitely not what I need to be dealing with this weekend.
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Old 08-11-2006, 01:39 AM   #2
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same thing bought mine too

"
I'm Pleased to be a winner of your auction.I live in USA but presently on official assignment to sweden.I'm relatively new to Ebay as you can see,I have never bought on this site before .I heard it's very easy and convinient thats why i'm trying it now. This item is a gift for my Son who is studying cultural agriculture at premier university of nigeria in Ibadan nigeria I'm buying it for him as he requested for this and to show him i care about him despite the distance between us...............................
I will be paying you from my paypal account....and i will be paying you 100 USD for shipping of this items to ibadan nigeria where he reside. Meanwhile, I will like you to get back to me with your paypal email address, and get it posted to him through the USPS Global Express delivery to the below address.

Ayoola Kazeem
No 1 Ajobo Close Elewura Challenge,
Ibadan,
Oyo state
Nigeria
23402"

i said **** it, disputed it through ebay, and since the user no longer existed, they issued me a refund
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Old 08-11-2006, 01:53 AM   #3
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Can you explicitly state on your auction that you will not ship to another address, that you will only accept sale as is, no third party delivery and upon any request pertaining to such an action the auction will be immediately cancelled?
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Old 08-11-2006, 01:53 AM   #4
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I've had that happen to me twice when I tried selling a phone. Very annoying indeed. One even tried to send me a fake paypal e-mail telling me i'd get the funds when I issue a shipment tracking number.

Fat chance more like. [rolleyes]
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Old 08-11-2006, 01:57 AM   #5
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Can you explicitly state on your auction that you will not ship to another address, that you will only accept sale as is, no third party delivery and upon any request pertaining to such an action the auction will be immediately cancelled?
They registered the account in the U.S. I think it's stolen. In any case, I required that buyers have >-1 feedback, have a paypal account, and be in the U.S.

This account is located in the U.S. so I think it's stolen? But my god, it's so damn hard to find where you need to go to report this to ebay. They make it so easy to sell, but when things go wrong you gotta wade through pages and pages of info. [thumbdown]
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Old 08-11-2006, 03:15 AM   #6
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I think eBay need to seriously do something to stop these scammers.

I don't know what they could do - but it does ruin the experience for genuine eBayers.
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Old 08-11-2006, 03:36 AM   #7
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They've sent me an email saying they've paid me and to ship the item. I also found in my inbox, a doctored paypal reciept with numbers that don't match. [rolleyes]

People like this piss me off to no end. [thumbdown]
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Old 08-11-2006, 04:24 AM   #8
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I got banned from ebay last year for reporting one of them Nigerian scammers.
The reason I got banned was because they said I was the scammer that I reported.
I had perfect 100% feedback ,sent my details of to ebay to prove I wasn't the scammer that was trying to scam myself & they still didn't give me my account back.

So if you going to report them to ebay be careful, because they are a bunch of idiots who work there.[cursing]
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Old 08-11-2006, 04:36 AM   #9
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I think you guys are over reacting and just depriving Nigerians of the items that they have won fair and square. You guys are bias and you shouldn't, not all of the Nigerians are scammers, right? Maybe this guy's story is true, which is a 90% possibility btw, and his son is sitting thre in his dorm or in his room or what ever he happens to be doing, without a goddam XBOX! All you white people from America and Europe make me sick! Not only you ruin their culture, enslave their people, slow don't the progress of their self-sufficient independance, and now you racists are not even sending the goods that these good people of Nigeria won on Ebay? If these people were from America, you would sent the goods right away...
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Old 08-11-2006, 04:40 AM   #10
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I think you guys are over reacting and just depriving Nigerians of the items that they have won fair and square. You guys are bias and you shouldn't, not all of the Nigerians are scammers, right? Maybe this guy's story is true, which is a 90% possibility btw, and his son is sitting thre in his dorm or in his room or what ever he happens to be doing, without a goddam XBOX! All you white people from America and Europe make me sick! Not only you ruin their culture, enslave their people, slow don't the progress of their self-sufficient independance, and now you racists are not even sending the goods that these good people of Nigeria won on Ebay? If these people were from America, you would sent the goods right away...
He sent me a fake paypal reciept and asked me to ship right away. If they were from America and you sent the goods right away you'd be dumb. [thumbdown]
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Old 08-11-2006, 04:50 AM   #11
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I think you guys are over reacting and just depriving Nigerians of the items that they have won fair and square. You guys are bias and you shouldn't, not all of the Nigerians are scammers, right? Maybe this guy's story is true, which is a 90% possibility btw, and his son is sitting thre in his dorm or in his room or what ever he happens to be doing, without a goddam XBOX! All you white people from America and Europe make me sick! Not only you ruin their culture, enslave their people, slow don't the progress of their self-sufficient independance, and now you racists are not even sending the goods that these good people of Nigeria won on Ebay? If these people were from America, you would sent the goods right away...
You're the kind of person they target, the one that believes all their BS. [rofl]
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Old 08-11-2006, 04:54 AM   #12
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Send the f***** a box with road kill in it with a big sign that reads "Get AIDS and die"

I have no patience with people like this. [cursing]
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Old 08-11-2006, 04:58 AM   #13
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I think you guys are over reacting and just depriving Nigerians of the items that they have won fair and square. You guys are bias and you shouldn't, not all of the Nigerians are scammers, right? Maybe this guy's story is true, which is a 90% possibility btw, and his son is sitting thre in his dorm or in his room or what ever he happens to be doing, without a goddam XBOX! All you white people from America and Europe make me sick! Not only you ruin their culture, enslave their people, slow don't the progress of their self-sufficient independance, and now you racists are not even sending the goods that these good people of Nigeria won on Ebay? If these people were from America, you would sent the goods right away...
You gotta be kidding right, I couldn't see any white text but I can't believe anyone would seriously post this.
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Old 08-11-2006, 05:12 AM   #14
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You gotta be kidding right, I couldn't see any white text but I can't believe anyone would seriously post this.
Yeah, that plus ebay is not available to Nigerians.
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Old 08-11-2006, 05:23 AM   #15
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Yeah, lol, I wasn't serious, I just wanted to stir some ****. When this whole Nigerian scam bullshit began like 3 years ago, my mom fell for it a lost $500.
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Old 08-11-2006, 05:27 AM   #16
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Yeah, lol, I wasn't serious, I just wanted to stir some ****. When this whole Nigerian scam bullshit began like 3 years ago, my mom fell for it a lost $500.
Guess I almost fell for it [thumbup] [thumbup]
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Old 09-10-2006, 08:39 AM   #17
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The way to get around it is to only set eBay to only allow Paypal, thus only Paypal registered eBay accounts...this way, only accounts linked to a Paypal account can bid!

It stopped all Nigerian scamming on my sales!
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Old 09-10-2006, 09:40 AM   #18
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The way to get around it is to only set eBay to only allow Paypal, thus only Paypal registered eBay accounts...this way, only accounts linked to a Paypal account can bid!

It stopped all Nigerian scamming on my sales!
I did that and I thought I was safe. Didn't stop them from hijacking an account in the U.S. linked to paypal. [no]
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Old 09-10-2006, 10:47 PM   #19
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1) stipulate in the auction that you won't ship any where odd e.g. if you live in the U.S. say you won't ship out of the U.S. If you live in europe stipulate that you won't ship out of europe.

2) Don't ship until that money is in your hands. I for one would never ship on good faith alone that someone whom you've never met is just going to pay you. Make sure they do before you send the item.

problem solved.
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