Just sharing what happen to me...sold,(thought I sold) a laptop on ebay..got the official "your item sold" from ebay..got the official "payment awaiting deposit" from paypal..but it was all a spoof..and those alerts looked "exactly" like it came from ebay and paypal..what gave it away was the personal email I got from the knuckehead, he said he was an American in England on business, and the computer was a gift for his son in Nigeria..he even sent an extra $150 for shipping to sweeten the deal...yea ok...I was born at night but not last night...so took a couple of hours to clear it up with paypal and ebay but they have dealt with that exact scam before..if not for the email I would never have known..just a head's up..
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Without that e-mail this would have been a hard one to see at first glance. Glad you caught it.
There was nothing obvious at first..what's tricky is paypal will not release your money until you ship your item and they get notified that it was shipped..so I could of easily shipped then started calling paypal asking for my money when they never would of gotten the money in the first place..I'd be out a computer and no money..so it would of eventually been found out, but, it would have been too late, I'd become a statistic..
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With all the scams coming out of Nigeria I pitty the poor guy that actually has real business to do from there.
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On a related note, why is it always Nigeria? Or South Africa? It's never Ireland, Germany, Australia, etc. Is there some actual reason? I see Nigeria and I immediately go SCAM, even if the poorly worded craptacular email somehow slipped by my radar.
I don't know but here's the copy of the one I got:
Hello,
Greetings to you.I am Kelly James from US.I'm contacting you concerning your item on EBay,I'm presently in London on a business trip and intend sending this item to my son who works with the United Kingdom Embassy in Nigeria as a gift, I checked through USPS(WWW.USPS.com) website and found out that the postage cost to Nigeria is $150, so i have just made a swift payment to you via PayPal and I hope that you have gotten it there? .I have paid for both item and the postage cost via PayPal, so I will like you to go and check your email and see if you have gotten the confirmation mail from PayPal okay.Below is my son's address
Name...............Seun James
Address...........19 Unity Road
City..................Ojota
State.................Lagos State
Zip code...........23401
Country...........Nigeria
and I will like to inform you once again that you will have to post this item via USPS Express Mail International 8days
PS.due to how urgent need as a GIFT, i decided to pay you $150 for postageof the item ok,so make sure you post it out today to him then you getback to me asap. If you are having any problem please make sure youkeep me posted.
Best Regards...
Kelly
Hello,
Greetings to you.I am Kelly James from US.I'm contacting you concerning your item on EBay,I'm presently in London on a business trip and intend sending this item to my son who works with the United Kingdom Embassy in Nigeria as a gift, I checked through USPS(WWW.USPS.com) website and found out that the postage cost to Nigeria is $150, so i have just made a swift payment to you via PayPal and I hope that you have gotten it there? .I have paid for both item and the postage cost via PayPal, so I will like you to go and check your email and see if you have gotten the confirmation mail from PayPal okay.Below is my son's address
Name...............Seun James
Address...........19 Unity Road
City..................Ojota
State.................Lagos State
Zip code...........23401
Country...........Nigeria
and I will like to inform you once again that you will have to post this item via USPS Express Mail International 8days
PS.due to how urgent need as a GIFT, i decided to pay you $150 for postageof the item ok,so make sure you post it out today to him then you getback to me asap. If you are having any problem please make sure youkeep me posted.
Best Regards...
Kelly
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Because in Ireland, Germany, Australia, etc they would be prosecuted.
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I just had one of these emails. I saved it as a pdf to show clients. His email address was member@member.com.
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Your saying that the money doesn't actually hit your account until the item is shipped? I have never done this and have used paypal I don't ship until I get payment.
Well you are getting the payment in a sense; you get an alert from paypal that the member has paid paypal, but there is a caveat; you get an alert from paypal saying the member has paid and it is in your account. But you can't actually get the money released to you until you ship your item. Obviously, that's to prevent someone getting paid then never ship the item.
Then PayPal will take the hold off of the money in your paypal account or deposit it into your bank account...This scam had an identical web page alert sent to me, looks exactly like the page from paypal saying paypal had received his payment and it was in my account. But it was a forge and there was no money sent to paypal.
Then PayPal will take the hold off of the money in your paypal account or deposit it into your bank account...This scam had an identical web page alert sent to me, looks exactly like the page from paypal saying paypal had received his payment and it was in my account. But it was a forge and there was no money sent to paypal.
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I have always had access to the money once it hit my paypal either this is new since I last used it or an option. Paypal can still reverse a payment if the payer elevates it to claim that it was not shipped and you would need proof.
Ok we must be dealing with different circumstances..because I've talked to PayPal about this because I have a separate account at the bank just for PayPal transactions and I have to "request" the money to be released once a sale is made thru PayPal or it just sits there..I wasn't getting paid and called them to ask why and that's when they told me about the having to verify it was shipped policy..don't know why situations are different..
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hmm the email is what got your attention? The easiest way to check if you actually sold anything is to log into your "My eBay" account and check. Scandalous emails are so easy to spot because the englsh is always english by the book and improper use of misplaced words.
LOL check this video out and laugh it off
LOL check this video out and laugh it off
No I got a notification from Ebay indicating the item was sold and it was off of the list of items to sell..this guy was good..so he must of bought it off of ebay then took of his name from the registration because he was no longer a registered member of ebay..ebay refunded my listing fee and then relisted it for sale..could not have caught him that way..
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