eBay mobile phone scam - just a quickie but still make me :)

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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:05 pm

Hello!

So this is a quick scam that happened to me a year ago or so. Situation is, I sold a mobile phone on ebay and a Nigerian scam artist won the auction and sent me this ridiculous paypal email saying that payment had been received and it was peppered with spelling mistakes etc.

So anyway - here it is. I am in bold italic.

Dear ********whiskeysystem,

Congratulations The following item just sold:

Sony Ericsson P910i - 12 mths old - inc.new facia

Sale price: �105.00
Quantity sold: 1
Subtotal: �105.00
Postage Seller's Standard Rate: �9.00

Insurance: (not offered)
Sales tax: (none)
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Compliment of the season to you. I am Anita Bush from Califonia USA,
but Presently i am leading a conventional church program in London. I
saw your item below and i will like to buy it for my daughter that will
be starting a Computer science course in University of Nigeria Next
week.after the payment so that you can ship the item to . I would have
prefer to send you a cheque but simply because i want you to ship the
item first thing tomorrow morning, i will be sending you the payment
via PayPal so make sure you get the package ready for tomorrow
shippment Via ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS EXPRESS Shipping to Nigeria and kindly send me your paypal Invoice so that i can send the paypal payment right away and you can
just ship the item immediately you recieve the paypal confirmation.
thanks, so mail me now because its urgent.So this is my daugther full
full name and her address below..
NAME....SEGUN CLEMENT
ADDRESS..49 IPODO ROAD
STATE....IKEJA LAGOS
ZIP CODE..23401
COUNTRY...NIGERIA
PHONE NO..2348038051730

The �Paypal� email�.

Dear Chris,
***ATTENTION***

You have been sent a PayPal payment of GBP 130,00 from one of our client, Mrs Anita, for a recent Ebay item bought from you.

TRANSACTION ID # 29JH7402K02L261M

STATUS : COMFIRMED

Item number: 160004850688
Item # Item Title Qty Price Subtotal: Sony Ericsson P910i - 12 mths old - inc.new facia:
GBP 130,00

Shipping & Handling:GBP 25,00
Shipping Insurance (not offered):
TOTAL:GBP 130,00

Billing Address on Credit Card :
Name : SEGUN CLEMENT
Address : 49 Ipodo Road
City : Ikeja Lagos
State : Lagos State
Country : Nigeria
Zipcode : 23401
Phone : 23408-380-517-30

This PayPal payment has been deducted from the buyer's account and has been "APPROVED" but will not be credited to your account until the shippment tracking number is send to our customers service for shippment verification so as to secure both the buyer and the seller. Below are the necessary information requested before your account will be credited.

1: Make sure you recieve the PayPal Payment comfirmation before any shippment.

2 : Make sure the approved mail contain the total amount for the item bought.

3 : Make sure you ship the item to the buyer address above immediately you recieve the approved confirmation.

4 : Make sure the shippment tracking number is send to our customers service for shippment verification so as to secure both the buyer and the seller.

5 : Make sure the shippment tracking number is send to us ONLY through
([email protected])

6: Make sure the shippment tracking number is to us ONLY and not the buyer.

You can contact our customer service care at ([email protected])

Thanks for using PayPal. We look forward in serving your online payment.Sincerely.

(LOOKS VERY OFFICIAL DOESN'T IT?!?)

Hello,
I have sent the paypal payment. So kindly check your e-mail for the
paypal confirmation mail and mail me immediately you recieve the payment
confirmation from paypal pls kindly go and ship out the item through First Class Royail Mail Express, So that it's can get there ontime. So here is my Daugther full name and the address i want you to ship out the item to..

Name : SEGUN CLEMENT
Address : 49 Ipodo Road
City : Ikeja Lagos
State : Lagos State
Country : Nigeria
Zipcode : 23401
Phone : 23408-380-517-30

I have received paypal notification of your payment and the item has been shipped- your tracking number is

GB5446238811SHI22TE-Co-CK

You should receive the item in 3-4 days please leave me feedback!

(CAN YOU SEE MY HIDDEN MESSAGE IN THE TRACKING NUMBER!?)

Hello,
I can't really understand what Tracking # is this? And pls tell me what shipping service did you used in shipping it? Pls kindly get back to me as soon as possible. Thanks.

I have shipped the item using Royal Mail the tracking number is the number used to track the item. Have you got a nutmeg device with which to find the syntax?

(HAHAHAHA)

Have a look at the tracking # you sent to me GB5446238811SHI22TE-Co-CK . And i try to track it but i doesn't track what is really going on? Are you sure this is the correct tracking #.

Well it won't track will it?

I need you to understand that this has been sent via Nigerian special delivery the tracking numbers all like jesus.

Can you see it now?

I then got some death threats etc which I sadly didn't save.. I still love hiding the words shite and cock into tracking numbers though....

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