Suspicious Email From Nigeria Regarding My Item

velkks
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Last week I got an email from J*** Ta***m regarding my item which was supposed to be uploaded to pet****roughpl.com but didn't load. He asked me whether the item is still for sale and then for the price just like a normal customer. Then he sent this message:

 

Thanks for your response..I'm quite satisfied with the condition and
price,and I need you to understand that i am willing and ready to
purchase it right away, end the advert, consider me as your favorite
buyer. I will be paying the PayPal charges (3.4%) from my account and
will be paying directly into your PayPal account without any delay,
and I hope you have a paypal account. If you have one already, just
send me the address to send it to, which is the email address you use
for it or you can send me a paypal money request, so once i receive
the details i will go ahead with the payment through PayPal and then I
will contact my shipping company after you get the payment. I will
need your home address for it to be Picked Up by the Shipping
Company..

Regard

 

I couldn't help myself and found this extremely suspicious. That is not what I normally get from my customers. 2 days after that he sent this:

 

I have made the payment now as promised. You will be receiving the
payment confirmation message from  Paypal regarding the payment,
check your paypal (*****@**.**)  INBOX or SPAM or
JUNK folder if the message does not show in INBOX.

The shipping company wants  £100 for pick up and deliverer. So I made
total payment of  £170 so £100 for the shipping
company, and £10  for whatever Western Union will be charging you to
send the money to my shipper and charges for this transaction. Please
let me know as soon as you send them the money and also get back to me
with your home address so that i can forward it to them and they will
arrange for pickup date.

Bellow is the shipping courier company agent information who will come for the
Pick Up and where to send the £100 . thank you. so here is the
agent western union address for the payment below....

Name: Fre*****k Ade****
City: Ibadan,
State: Oyo.
Country : Nigeria
Post code: 2***2


I will be waiting to here from you soon

 

Nigeria? Why would someone from Nigeria want item like the one I had for sale? I'm pretty sure no one in Nigeria talks in Polish. My item was advertised in UK and on a Polish site. Yes he could've translated it but apparently people of Nigeria can't have paypal accounts. 

This is another message from him that made me question this all over again..

 

Thanks for your mail..Am sorry i should have inform you about this
before making the payment,i don't have access to western union at the
moment due to the nature of work,am in a ship right now at
Bermuda.That is the reason why i add the money to your payment so that
 you can help me transfer the £100 to  the shipping agent when
the payment is complete into your account. so i urge you to try as
much and seek this £100 and get it send to the agent giving
address as soon as possible and get back to paypal with the western
union details so that they can verify and for them to confirm if truly
you have send this money after they might have confirm the western
union details it is then they will now fully activate your account
with the total sum of £170 . once again am very sorry for any
inconvenience i may be putting you through .

 

By the looks of it he's really keen on getting his money. If he's in a ship at Bermuda then how can he sent mails to me right after I reply?

 

Yesterday I checked my other email that I gave to him and found a message from paypal. They said that If I don't go ahead and click link below during 12 hours and accept the transaction they'll suspend my paypal account AND legal actions will be taken.

 

I told John about the problem and he replied to me saying that he reported the case to INTERPOL.

 

 

I really need help with this. I don't know whether I should trust him.

Thank you.

 

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kernowlass
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THIS IS A TYPICAL PAYPAL SCAM.

They encourage you to use paypal and often ask you to send the item as a gift to a relative somewhere often Nigeria.

You will get/got a "fake" email that looks as though it is from paypal.....it isn't.

It will say the buyer has paid ...you won't have been paid.

They will tell you that the payment is released when you provide paypal with a tracking/shipping number......this won't happen.

Or if the item requires shipping they will tell you that they will pay you extra and you must pay the agent via western union / moneygram BEFORE the funds are released to you.

 

They are not interested in the item, they just want the western union etc funds and you will never see money in your paypal balance.

They also threaten legal action...have a laugh at that one and ignore it as its rubbish.

Paypal NEVER tell you to send trackable, they advise it for seller protection etc but it is not compulsory.

Paypal NEVER tell you to send an item before the payment is showing in your paypal account.

Paypal NEVER expect you to use a rival money transfer service.

Delete any emails and ignore the scammers.


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velkks
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Thank you so much for your reply! :')

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kernowlass
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Your welcome, if my advice helped maybe you would mark one of my replies as a solution?


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mayophish
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Just had dealings with this guy through gumtree for a pram.. Exactly the same email wordings as above. Suspicions arose when he stipulated PayPal only. Eventually acquiesced until a Nigerian shipping address and an overpayment of £500 for WU charges became mentioned. A quick google soon revealed his scam. Can't believe I'm not allowed to publicise his name and emails by PayPal, that bastion of secure financial processing.. Stay safe people
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kernowlass
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@mayophish

 

You can't say his name and email addy because these scammers use hijacked ebay etc accounts with other peoples names and hijacked email addresses.

 

So you may be stating an innocent account holders name on a public board.


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