Just posting this so no one gets stung like i nearly did!
Basically i am selling a car on ebay and i got contacted by a guy wanting to buy the car with an email like this
'Thanks for the mail,i am buying this for my son as his gift because i would not be around to celebrate with him i am a petroleum engineer currently on a rig offshore and due to the nature of my work,phone calls making and visiting of website are restricted but i squeezed out time to check this advert and send you an email regarding it. I really want this item to be a surprise gift for my son so i wont let him know anything about the item until it gets delivered to him,i am sure he will be more than happy with the item.I will make the payment through paypal because i don't have access to my bank account online as i don't have internet banking, but i can pay from my PayPal account,as i have my bank a/c attached to it, i will need you to give me your PayPal email address so i can make the payment as soon as possible for the item and pls if you don't have PayPal account yet,it is very easy to set up, go on
www.paypal.co.uk and get it set up ,after you have set it up i will only need the e-mail address you use for registration with PayPal so as to put the money through.I have a pick up agent that will come for the pick up immediately you have receive the payment in full.please get back to me with your last price.
Jordan David'
So i got back to him and we settled on a figure and gave him my paypal account
he then emailed me this
'I was just about to pay when i had this problem with the pick up, my
pick up agent says i will need to pay for the pick up before they can
schedule a pick up time, they charged me £250 for pick up and
delivery,and payments for pick up made through them is made to their
corporate international headquarters which is in the Africa and the
payments is made through western union money transfer, i will add the
£250 to your money i will send through paypal as soon as i have made
the payments, i will email you and let you know and please i will need
you to help me send the money to my pick up agent Hq in the Africa
through western union money transfer, this can be done from any post
office ,there is always western union money transfer section in most
post offices(you can do it online as well at
(
www.westernunion.com)..., i would have done it myself but we cant/
bring some of our personal effects along, i am a little
incapacitated.....I will appreciate your help here.
Jordan.'
which i immediatly said no to but he still percisted to supposidly pay to my paypal.
This was the next one
have just made the payments now and i expect paypal to have emailed you by now,i sent £750.00 in all, To (nathan.gallo@live.com) paypal said they would be holding the funds and it will not be credited into your account because of the excess payments of £250.00 i added meant for pick up and delivery,they said they have emailed you to this effect, you will need to send the £250.00 to my pick up agent Headquarters via western union money transfer,so that paypal can credit the £750.00 into your account as soon as you have emailed the western union details to them, i added extra £50 to cover the western union charges which shouldn't be more that £20-30 but just to be sure i added £50.
Here is the pick up agent info needed to get the money sent through
western union money transfer:
EREWEMEN.A.AUGUSTINE
100 New G.R.A Road Ibadan,
Oyo state,
23402.
Nigeria.
I will need the details of the transfer once you have sent fund . . .
1.The MTCN number that is the 10 digits number on the Western Union receipt
2.Sender's name and address used in sending the money
3.Actual amount sent.
4.Question and Answer
From
Jordan
after this i had an email from a paypal which looed the same as the proper one explaining that i had to pay this agecny £250 and then they would release the £750 into my account which i said no to.
i just knew it was fishy so i typed in the guys name into internet 'EREWEMEN.A.AUGUSTINE'
Guess what
another car forum
www.gtr.co.uk has already posted the exact same thing which has happened to me lol
dirty nigerian PMSL
Hope no one actually gets caught by this