Ebay scam

Im in the middle of being scammed from someone that wants me to send my video camera to nigeria (surprise surprise) for her "son in law".  i reported it thanks to some advice, and now im just chatting back and forth with the scammer as they type in all caps to SHIP OUT NOW!  MONEY HAS BEEN SENT!

its kind of funny.  im gonna be messing with this guy for a while.

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  • There's some pretty crazy nigerian scam stories on the internet
  • Nigel came through for Murray though... You should probably trust them image
  • heres a taste:Thanks for your mail....am not in the state now it will take me 1 mouth to back to home that why add $300 for the shipping the item to my son inlaw in Nigeria i will urge you to get the item ship out now and get back to me with your shipment tracking number to verify it..ok



    ^^ thats after i told him/her that i was notified by paypal that he/she was bogus
  • tell you what Robin, ignore that guy cause I have soem sweet deals from my cousin in Brazil!

    I have no idea what you are looking for, but he has it for $1000 if you paypal it to him asap.image

    To think so many people lose money on these things.... You wanna hear one that was REALLY close to home for me...

    My best frined worked at a printing company. His supervisor started asking him questions about inhertiance so he suggested that they call me (I'm an accountant). So my friend called me and wanted to know the best way to avoid taxes when inheriting large amounts of money form overseas... He never told me the situation, who had it, nothing...

    Fast forward 2 months. His supervisor pulled $230,000 of equity out of his home for 'processing fees' in order to recover the $22 million in inheritnace his son-in-law was entiltled to in a letter sent to him via EMAIL. They flew over to England to go meet the guy to sign all the necessary documentation etc... They actually had to go into a bank, but when they arrived, someone was waiting for them. He directed them to the elevator and they went up several floors to another office (at this point you have to wonder why you are no longer in the bank). They gave the guy the money they were told to bring ($230,000) and after a bunch of paper work was filled out and signed they were given a receipt for a wire transfer for $22 million and change.

    I cannot belive these 2 grown men were DUMB enough to fall for a Nigerian money scam and to fly to England to give away $230,000!!!!!!!

    Let's just say if they were straight up with me and had not hidden the details he would not have a new mortgage on his house. I would have known is 2 SECONDS flat that it was a scam. 

    This was the most stupid thing I had ever seen/heard happening this close to home for me.

  • that makes me want to cry. image
  • That's crazy maximus, I guess they do catch people every now and then. People must really be living in holes not to have heard of this stuff going on.
  • dude.. i hate these scams, you should tell that guy you are going to hunt him and cut off his arms so he can't get on the internet anymore
  • i was actually tempted to write him much worse, but i decided since i know nothing about security, he might target me for more. so for now im just gonna waste his time and write confusing/funny things to him
  • Originally posted by: Zzap

    There's some pretty crazy nigerian scam stories on the internet

    This.

    I've actually had someone try and scam me.
  • Originally posted by: Nirvana

    Originally posted by: Zzap

    There's some pretty crazy nigerian scam stories on the internet

    This.

    I've actually had someone try and scam me.



    me too.  It happened a few months back on Craigslist.  I handed it over to my uncle (who works with the fbi) and he turned it over to the right division.  I later learned that the person who tried to scam me lived on the other side of the world (not sure where).
  • You guys should check out http://www.419eater.com/

    Pretty funny website where people document there adventures in Scambaiting. Which is basically wasting the scammers time and having a bit of fun with them. There's people on there that have received busts made out of wood, cash, someone even got them to perform a skit of Monty Python and send them the DVD.
  • lol... crap i remember reading something with an apple notebook.. pretty good stuff
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