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Hello everyone!
One of the greatest strengths consumers possess against fraud and phishing is education and collaboration. To help support your safety online, I'm going to open this special thread up for you. Here, you can post examples of what you believe to be attempts by individuals to defraud you or others of their hard earned valuables and money.
Before we begin, a few housekeeping points:
- We will be using this as a "master thread," so if we find an example in other areas of the boards, we may merge the post into this one.
- For everyone's safety, please remove any last names or contact information (including email addresses) from your examples. In many instances, the names provided by fraudsters are fake or may actually be the name of someone they already defrauded.
- On that same note, please don't ever attempt to confront a fraudster or attempt to track them down. Instead, turn the information you do have over to your local authorities.
- Please also remove any links from your posts, as these could potentially go to spoofed or phishing websites.
Other than that, we only ask that you keep it productive and stay within the Forum Decorum and posting guidelines. I'll be stopping in on a regular basis to clean house and comment on posts, so don't be surprised if you see my mug - or another moderator - stopping in to say hello!
With that said, I'm going to start moving posts in, so you might see some older examples mixed in with the new posts. I hope this thread becomes a great resource for everyone!
Stay safe,
Adrian
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The same **bleep** happened to me just now. I sent off my camera and never got my payment. I got all these fake emails from paypal and it had my full name and all. I reported them to the FBI. I felt something fishy whenever i get something from people in africa or Nigeria. They are the biggest scammers. I got an email from "Paypal" saying that i have a limit on my paypal and the person sending the money needed to send extra money in order for me to receive my full funds. I called paypal to see about this limit and they said they sent no such payment. I had no paypal insurance on my item i shipped off and i couldnt stop it from being delivered once it left the states. I wont say what email or the persons name cause i want them to get caught but my money and camera is gone. I wish torcher, bad health and thief on these peoples lives and i want my camera and money back. Never will never again send anything to nigiera. They will scam you every time. Even those who come on FB wanting to be your friend. They pretend to like and "love" you then tell you about some sob story for you to send them money. Scammers!!! I hope they get beat, burned and die. Honest people like me dont need this, i worked too hard to get anything stolen from me. I hope the FBI can find them and make them give me my stuff back.
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The FBI does not have any jurisdiction out of your own country and certainly not in Nigeria.
Secondly they use hijacked or throwaway email addresses and fake names and work out of anonymous internet cafes normally.
However just be aware >>
Paypal NEVER tell you to send an item before the payment is showing in your paypal account.
Paypal do not tell you to send trackable, they advise it for selling protection but it is not compulsory.
Paypal NEVER expect you to use a rival money transfer service eg Moneygram or Western Union etc.
Advice is voluntary.
Kudos / Solution appreciated.
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I just got myself in the same situation... and realized this person has the zip code 23401. After reading all these comments, i realized I was caught in a scam. I only got as far as the email for the money to be deposited to me. I am selling a prom dress and was asked to ship to Surelere, Lagos Nigeria. I have only recieved the paypal transaction email to my personal email from the purchaser. Am i safe? Or have they already hacked my account.
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