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Ifti

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Scammer......
« on: July 18, 2010, 07:59:57 pm »
Im selling a Camcorder (which you can find in the 'For Sale' section), which I also listed on Gumtree - not that Ive ever sold anything through there, buts its free so I thought why not!

Item is listed at £350.

Received this from some scammer a few hours back.....

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hello there,
   thanks for the fast response,i am actually buying the item for my
husband who is on a
diplomatic mission abroad and i will add you 100GBP to the sale price
of the item for the
cost of the shipment abroad through Royal Mail International Delivery
Signed For,so kindly
send me a request from paypal for the total cost of the item and
including postage so that
i could be able to complete the payment and also do get the item off
the site and if you
don't have a paypal account to receive payment for the item..pls
kindly get register on
www.paypal.co.uk because of safety and security purpose as i have
already made a very good offer for this item,pls kindly act fast and
get back to me as soon as you done so..i await
your fast response....thanks

I was going to ignore it, but thought, what the hell - lets send a money request!

I've sent a money request for £500! lol
What should i do next?!
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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2010, 08:06:40 pm »
You did not click on her link did you !!!!


usually these are diverted to there site that gets your password !


if you did change your password ASAP


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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2010, 08:14:29 pm »
If it feels wrong, it usually is. There's a reason why people don't just buy these things in a normal way, and it isn't usually a good reason. Why the hell can't she buy it normally & then ship it to here husband, who by the sounds of it is either filming the next James Bond film or crawling around the Tora Bora caves looking for bad people....

Change your password and walk away is my advice.
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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2010, 09:18:53 pm »
Im not that stupid - I work in IT!!

I went to PayPal directly myself and sent an invoice for £500  :signLOL:

Will see what happens  :wink:
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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2010, 09:20:31 pm »
 :fighting2: :fighting2:

I hope this happens to them !


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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2010, 09:43:23 pm »
Quote from: Britishlion on July 18, 2010, 09:20:31 pm
:fighting2: :fighting2:

I hope this happens to them !




A bit worse than that I'd say ,when its your hard earned thats on the line!!! :fighting:
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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2010, 09:46:19 pm »
You'll get your money into your paypal account

you will send the item off

buyer will issue a chargeback on the credit card used to fund paypal

paypal will remove the money from your account

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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2010, 09:51:51 pm »
If they pay u just keep the item!!! See if they take it up with paypal  :grin:
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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2010, 10:04:35 pm »
Quote from: ILoveTuna on July 18, 2010, 09:51:51 pm
If they pay u just keep the item!!! See if they take it up with paypal  :grin:

Exactly my intention. There's no way Im sending the item off. I'll let them pay and keep delaying the person and see how long I can keep the money in my PayPal! lol  :wink:
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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2010, 10:05:15 pm »
Give em some greif I'd say :evilgrin:
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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2010, 10:07:01 pm »
Quote from: Ifti on July 18, 2010, 10:04:35 pm
Quote from: ILoveTuna on July 18, 2010, 09:51:51 pm
If they pay u just keep the item!!! See if they take it up with paypal  :grin:

Exactly my intention. There's no way Im sending the item off. I'll let them pay and keep delaying the person and see how long I can keep the money in my PayPal! lol  :wink:

Love it let us know what happens...  :happy2:
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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2010, 10:35:22 pm »
Once saw a website, whereby people had a bit of fum with these Nigerian Scammers who used to send you "my dead uncle has a shedload of cash in a british bank account" scam email

Trick was to string them along as long as possible!
















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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2010, 10:36:35 pm »
419eater
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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2010, 11:37:57 pm »
419Eater is hilarious... spent a week reading the whole site back in 2005 and was in stitches all the way through...  :grin: :grin:
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Re: Scammer......
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2010, 01:12:56 pm »
419Eater got a dude killed  :scared: they persuaded a scammer that they were a dying priest in Somalia with a chest full of cash so scammer sent his son there, the first son died so then he and his second son went and were never heard from again  :scared:
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