[ejazbmw]

kinda confused here I've sold things on ebay and never felt like i was being scammed but I put my phone up for sale in craigslist and got a few people interested but this guy came to me first. I haven't sold it to him yet but he sent me this when asking if the phone was still for sale

Thanks for the mail,i will like to come and meet you and pay cash for
the item but am presently in Australia for a business trip and i want
to buy this item for my son as gift for his up coming birthday
ceremony who is schooling in west Africa so just get back to me with
final price of this item including shipping cost Via usps {EMS}
Express mail to him and i will like to pay you Via PayPal OR Bank to
Bank transfer get back to me asap to know what next to
do...Thanks god bless you.Hope to read from you soon.


now i would make him pay me via paypal first but for some reason when i read the Africa part i felt like this was shaddy stuff. what do you guys think?

[FStop7]

hahahahaha

sure, go for it, it'll work out just fine.


ahahahahahah

[alpine335i]

Now thats a run on sentence if i have ever seen one. If you have to ask if your being scammed then your being scammed. DON'T DO IT. NExt hes gunna tell you he going to send you $1,000,000, take what the phones worth and send him back the rest.

[ACZakka325i]

Yes, avoid!

[ejazbmw]

Originally Posted by alpine335i

Now thats a run on sentence if i have ever seen one. If you have to ask if your being scammed then your being scammed. DON'T DO IT. NExt hes gunna tell you he going to send you $1,000,000, take what the phones worth and send him back the rest.

lol my bad i was typing on my phone its kinda hard to write properly on it

[Razzy]

that a scam. ive gotten the exact same thing.

[Rawhide]

No such country as "West Africa" and note the "OR bank to bank transfer" - he's after your bank acct number.

[ejazbmw]

crap thanks guys i never really encountered anything like this haha

[ejazbmw]

how do you make sure its not a scam then? i have a few other people interested, ebay was so much easier lol

[xxballinboi786]

I'm not too sure how it works with Craigslist, but this same exact scam has been tried on me in the past on ebay. It was my first time selling something as expensive as a phone (p910i = $600). It was used so I was hoping to sell it for around $500. Then, the day before the auction ends, I get a message from a member offering to bid $600 if I could ship the item to his son in Indonesia. I was like WHY THE HELL NOT!? He sends me the money and the next day I box the item and send him an email saying that I shipped the item. Thank god when I got to the post office it was closed, so I waited until the next day to ship. Right before I left for the post office, I double checked the address on paypal and to my surprise my account balance was $0.00. I had also received a notification that someone had "hacked" this buyers account and made the purchase. Needless to say I left a blatantly obvious "scammer alert!" feedback on his account, which he closed days later.

[xxballinboi786]

Originally Posted by ejazbmw

how do you make sure its not a scam then? i have a few other people interested, ebay was so much easier lol

Are any of them in your area? I'd say to take that route if you wanna be safe. Personally I would stick to ebay. Best of luck!

[ejazbmw]

Originally Posted by xxballinboi786

Are any of them in your area? I'd say to take that route if you wanna be safe. Personally I would stick to ebay. Best of luck!

yeah the second person is near by so i just sent her a email, btw do you want a lg dare i'll trade it for your lambo lol

[ejazbmw]

Originally Posted by Markoni

Just because he said "west Africa" doesn't mean he's saying it's a country. He clearly said "west Africa" with a lower-case "w" and everyone knows what that means.

Anyway, my basic rule of thumb is never trust anyone who uses the term "birthday ceremony".

yeah the end of his email made me think of scam who says god bless you lol

[Nezo86]

Originally Posted by ejazbmw

kinda confused here I've sold things on ebay and never felt like i was being scammed but I put my phone up for sale in craigslist and got a few people interested but this guy came to me first. I haven't sold it to him yet but he sent me this when asking if the phone was still for sale

Thanks for the mail,i will like to come and meet you and pay cash for
the item but am presently in Australia for a business trip and i want
to buy this item for my son as gift for his up coming birthday
ceremony who is schooling in west Africa so just get back to me with
final price of this item including shipping cost Via usps {EMS}
Express mail to him and i will like to pay you Via PayPal OR Bank to
Bank transfer get back to me asap to know what next to
do...Thanks god bless you.Hope to read from you soon.


now i would make him pay me via paypal first but for some reason when i read the Africa part i felt like this was shaddy stuff. what do you guys think?

haha my friend fell for this lost his phone and money...

[BaLLzZz]

Def a scam but if you got the money then who cares. If you dont have the money beat it. The god bless thing threw a really red flag lOl

[ejazbmw]

Originally Posted by BaLLzZz

Def a scam but if you got the money then who cares. If you dont have the money beat it. The god bless thing threw a really red flag lOl

thats what i was thinking you know if he paypal'd the money i wouldn't give shit but something seems fishy

[ejazbmw]

Originally Posted by cars4lyfe

Why do you think Africa is mostly poor? No one wants to do business with Africans b/c a lot (not everyone of course) are hard to deal with. I know, I deal with them on a daily basis. A lot of them always get on the "why don't you give me a discount? is it b/c I'm black?" ...I'm like yeah it's b/c you're black, it's not cause I want to make money but it's cause you're black, that makes perfect sense. Of course there are nice Africans-not all are like that. But I'd say 85% are very difficult to deal with. In Manhattan, they're known to steal UPS account #'s and rack up next day air shipments on a stolen account. They also are notorious for fake money orders and selling stolen goods. Ahhhh I can't wait to hit the lotto or find another line of work.

wow least you got to vent ahaha i serious don't like CL but ebay gets annoying with stupid people lol

[Spool]

Sounds like a scam for sure...tell him to pay you by pay pal, and don't ship anything out until the money clears...

[Explorer3253]

When dealing with Craigslist, I only deal with in person transactions. There are too many scams out there...Heck, I thought paypal was safe but now with people getting thier accounts hacked, I stopped accepting paypal. Now its in person cash or no deal.

[darkphantom]

Dude, you got my PM on craigslist???

Yeah so it's for some guy in australia and I need to give to my friend but don't pay pal it is because it takes too many fees and also I need you to give me your bank account # so I wire transfer you the money and please ship it over I will give you a cashiers check and my cousin in nigeria needs 10 of them please ship asap I will give you all my money A++++ RECOMMENDED....

[Cyber]

Watch the channel vid and tell me what you REALLY THINK NOW lol

http://www.youtube.com/user/lazydoginc

[xxballinboi786]

Originally Posted by Spool

Sounds like a scam for sure...tell him to pay you by pay pal, and don't ship anything out until the money clears...

I don't think money clearing is the problem. You also have to make sure that you ship to the person's confirmed address, and not their brother/sister/friend's address. That way, they can email paypal and say someone hacked their account and had the item delivered elsewhere and get a refund.