I too fail to see how asking for a email address can lead to being scammed. Get his paypal email addy and contact paypal for info. Tell them your fears and have them look into it. I just fail to see how this scam can work with the little info your giving them. Especially since you can wait for the money and pull it out of paypal before shipping the hitch.
If I'm wrong can someone please explain how?
Oh, I got a new variation on the old 419 yesterday. And heard about yet another, I might as well summarize them here
Mine: The message claimed to be from FedEx courier services but the E-mail address that it came from and the reply to address where I was supposed to send my 100 bucks was not a FedEx domain (Gmail IIRC)
The E-mail address I DID reply to (Actually forwarded the message to complete with all headers) WAS a FedEx domain however
Since the spammer was using FedEx logo
The message said they had a package, or packages for me, had been trying to deliver for over a year, and that the package contained 1.3 million dollars (FedEx would have no reason to tell me what is in the package ever)
Forwarded it to Fed-Ex (the real Fed Ex) Security
The other one a friend of mine got
It purported to know that he was a victim of a prior 419 and for a fee we will help you collect what's due (NOTE: His FRAUD filters are every bit as good as (If not better than) mine, he's never bitten on a 419 and likely never will)
The fun part about both of these is they freely admit to Nigeria..
I have no doubt that both the scammers have never visited that country
I do hope FedEx can deliver a proper package to the scammer though.
I would love to see them deliver a nice pair of matched stainless steel bracelets. Manufacturer... Smith & Wesson of course
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I get them wanting to buy cabinets or displays from my company. And ANY cabinet will work for them, any size, shape or color too. They want me to use their shipping company to ship it overseas. The last one I went like this,
I gave them a price.
They wanted me to contact the shipping company about it.
Then I gave them the price with shipping.
They gave me a couple credit card numbers, which where good.
Then, this is the scam part, I am to prepay the shipping company with Western union before they will pick it up.
Keep in mind that the Credit Card charges will go thru, so it looks legit so far.
Once you send cash thru Western Union you are scammed, game over you lose.
I also contacted the banks that issued cards and told them of the scam so they deactiviated the cards for the unsuspecting card holder.
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Nigerian??? There was one on the news last week that was just like this but originated right here in Washington State. LOL, we don't want the Nigerians to have all the fun!
I think it was one of thoes You Won the Lotto and the folks actually sent the $2000 dollars to the scammers. Will someone tell me how anyone doesn't see through this stuff. If you didn't buy a ticket, why would you think you won anything
Sure it fits scam scheme, but if the guys send you money to protected PayPal account, where would be the problem?
It is not like the fake Western Union MO I am stacking from British people applying for my apartments.
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Kajtek1 wrote: Sure it fits scam scheme, but if the guys send you money to protected PayPal account, where would be the problem?
It is not like the fake Western Union MO I am stacking from British people applying for my apartments.
Because the PayPal account they are sending the money from is NOT theirs. It's stolen. Once the fraud is discovered, your item is gone, you are out the shipping, and most of the time, you don't get money from a paypal account. Once they have you "hooked", you get some sob story about how they are locked out of their account, but would like to send you a big check, and you send them the extra back. BTDT, I deal with these jerks all the time. A variation is to send you money from a stolen account, it will "accidentally" be too much, and they ask you to send the extra to yet another paypal account. If it's not about my show dogs, it's about my construction business. I have a lot of fun screwing with them, but not a penny of my money will they see.
There are so many variations of the nigerian scam, it's unbelievable. They all play on greed. You can't win a lotto you didn't buy a ticket for, no nice person is going to pay you a lot of money to help them move money out of their country, etc, etc. Bottom line is, if it smells fishy, it is.
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And for me they ALWAYS send some sort of BS overpayment by rubber check and I'm supposed to immediatly send the difference by western union...they are even nice enough to let me deduct the western union fees from what I owe....I have their checks made out to my 'business manager' Ima Domschidt or I B Skamminyew and some others I can't post here
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