scams

Scams

When selling an item on Ebay there does seemto be numerous scammers that try to scam you into sending them the item without paying for it. They do this in a number of ways such as sending you emails claiming to be PayPal but it is crucial that you never fall for these scams and never send your item away until the money has reached your account.

Listed below are a couple of emails that were sent to me by scammers! Just ignore these emails and never reply to them!

"DEAR SELLER,

I am very happy that i won your item which took me more time to search for what excalty i was looking for and bid a steep on the item because am a very busy business man and am not to use to shopping at store but online and i was told by my daughter to get her your item that will be her companion for her final research program's.she is my adopted girl but was posted to Africa as exchange student by her research organization for studies of different ethnic i would have love you to ship the item to me but am currently not in the country and time is not really on her sides.because she want the item for her final year party which will take place soon.so i will be paying you extra GBP 40 for ROYAL MAIL pls make it REGISTERED POST ONLY to her address.will be paying immediately with pay pal ASAP. have my words.

this is her confirmed shipping address and name pls notify me if there is any problem.

Name:....

Address:.....

City:.....

State:....

Country:Nigeria

ZIPCODE:......

my regards"

"DEAR,

have made the payment through paypal hope you have receive notification of payment from paypal and paypal explain that the transaction is international and it will takes new procedure.just let me through reply and pls send me confirmation of shipping status so i will be able to know the status of my item.thank you and very nice doing business with you.and your funds had being deducted from my account and have never heard anything from you,and everything is now left for you and pay pal. ok dear reply me and i hope you can still help me to ship out her item today and hope we can still do more business in your the future like buying and selling and i will be leaving positive feedback to you after the completion of the transaction. pls reply

Name:....

Address:....

City:...

State:.....

Country:Nigeria

ZIPCODE:....

Thanks"

Hi seller,

i have made the payment and pay pal sent me mail that your money has been deducted from my account and it will be credited into your account as soon as you send them the shipping information(tracking number)And i have called my daughter that i will be sending something for her research project finals that is coming soon.As you can see that my money is under pending in pay pal cos they are waiting for you to send them the prove of shipment. Here is pay pal E-mail paypalonlinecareverification@auctionfan.net pls reply me soon

NOTE:Here is my daughter's address

Name:.....

Address:.....

City:......

State:.....

Country:Nigeria

ZIPCODE:....

Thanks

hello sir,

thank you for your urgent reply and have already contacted pay pal on your behalf about your fund and the explain that they are taking new procedure for international transaction in order to secure but buyer and seller against fraud and they just introduce the new system for international transaction only and your have been deducted from my account already and i await you to complete the transaction.I hope you would have been contacted by pay pal now for confirmation of payment.

thank you and pls reply if you have any question.

so this is the confirm shipping address below

Name:.....

Address:.....

City:.....

State:

Country:Nigeria

ZIPCODE:.....

Once again i did not reply to any of these emails and neither should you! If you are unsure whether an email is from a scammer or not then forward the email onto PayPal and they will let you know if it is or not!

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