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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