Thanks for your guys!!! I almost get sacmmed by the person called "jean joy" from Nigeria. I am selling a Jewlery on Gumtree last week. Yesterday I received a text from this number: 1-516-200-2704, asked me to reply to her private email, she also asked me the final price. I reply to this email and I gave her my final price, but she changed her mind wantsto pay me full price plus shipping cost. That's a bit odd, my alarm arose as I offered free P&P. She claims she bought the jewlery as a gift for her son who is in Nigeria. This morning I got an email from her claiming she had made a payment into my Paypal account, it's a pending payment, need a tracking number to release the fund. As I feel the whole selling thing is a bit fishy, so I went to check my payapl account, and found out there isn't any pending payments at all. then I google and find out there is whole lot of Nigeria Scammers on Gumtree and eBay. WOW I have been targeted been nearly scammed by these Bloody Nigeria Scammers, what a relief. My advice: if the buyer contact you by text, and ask you to reply to their private email, that's not right, be alarmed; if they use text, should always use text; otherwise, stay within the Gum tree email facility don't give them your private email. and most important of all, do not shipping your item before you actually received the payment.
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