Ebay question

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

Currently got a phone advertised on ebay and I recieved this question...

Q: Hi, I have interest in your item you listed for sale on ebay and I will like to buy the item to my friend as Gift in Africa and i will like to pay through electronic secure online payment (Paypal). So please if you are interested in selling this item for me, kindly send me your your Paypal ID or send me paypal payment request with your item number and ebay id through my email (sinjing@operamail.com) to secure this transaction and I will be able to send out the money immediately via Paypal.Please i will like to offer you £210 Pounds for the last price with the shipping charges to Africa Via Royal Express Mail and i will make the payment as soon as you provide me your paypal email address or send me paypal payment request with item number and ebay id to secure the transaction through paypal. Thanks, Eberle lovvver101@yahoo.com 070318371**

I feel like having some fun but my auction ends at 11ish pm tonight so havent got much time.

[SiM]

Play along, get the address and then send a piece of poo in the post...

[Merson]

Protip: All Africans on ebay are scammers.

Have fun

[TAKTAK]

ooh er, sounds dodgey

@SiM..........

[Emirzan]

I gave up selling phones on ebay because about 80% of my items were subject to scams or scam attempts like this, never lost any money, it just got very irritating.

A very elaborate prank in a similar situation << worth a read, quite amusing.

SiM - Sadly international laws regarding shipping biological items are very strict. Doubt that'd get through. Would be f***ing deserved though.

[pow4]

Yes I was thinking of selling my new phone, but all these scams aroung worrry me

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

Play along, get the address and then send a piece of poo in the post...

haha, something along the lines if it was a uk address.

Protip: All Africans on ebay are scammers.

Have fun

Already know that

ooh er, sounds dodgey

@SiM..........

Getting offered £210 for a phone worth roughly £100, it sure is.

I gave up selling phones on ebay because about 80% of my items were subject to scams or scam attempts like this, never lost any money, it just got very irritating.

A very elaborate prank in a similar situation << worth a read, quite amusing.

SiM - Sadly international laws regarding shipping biological items are very strict. Doubt that'd get through. Would be f***ing deserved though.

I've read that before, awesome prank but he went missing didn't he?

[Emirzan]

pow4 - I wouldn't let it put you off for one sale. As long as you are careful, follow the ebay rules (which are there for a reason), don't accept transactions regarding the phone outside of ebay and most of all don't respond to questions like the one in this thread you will be fine.

Honestly, all the scams I encountered were so easy to spot they might as well have headed their messages with a foot high banner reading 'FRAUD'

OV3RCLOCK3R - Though you might have, it is 5 years old after all, still good in my opinion! And yes, I think' Jeff' did vanish after that. Although hopefully only in terms of internet life and not real life. Because that would just be scary.

[PeterStoba]

I've had this from computers advertised on Loot, GumTree and Craiglist

They email you from payment@whatever.com pretending to be paypal, but at the bottom of the email it says before you recieve the payment you must reply with a trackign number

Once i emailed them a citylink tracking number from a past order from Aria and they asked for a receipt as they couldn't work it

[Merson]

That powerbook scam was mint, glad he got done over

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

My reply was

Dear sinjin4131,

How about noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?

- assassin-786

Then I got this reply

Was not me…thank you for not taking this person up on their offer…they clearly had hijacked my account…it's fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience.



Sinjin (the real me…)

[TAKTAK]

so it ends nicely for all partys (part from the scum)

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

so it ends nicely for all partys (part from the scum)

Yup