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I recently put up my PSP and all the fixins up on eBay to make a couple extra bucks. Set up a BIN of $275 and figured I'd make a hundred or so. I get the always funny "will you ship this to my son in Nigeria" question which happens with every bodies auction anymore. I of course say no to him and think nothing more of it. Next morning and to my surprise someone used the BIN function! So I'm freaking hopping up and down in my chair when I log in and such to send him his invoice.

Huh? Wait...Why is it saying he's unregistered? I check the name of the unregistered winner....It's the same guy who asked if I would ship to his son.... So I'm thinking ok maybe something happened that caused him to close his account....And then the emails came.

Read the quote headings to see who sent what to who.

Read below:

First email: wrote:Re: You Won eBay Item: Sony Playstation Portable PSP Games, case and more! (120105707153)
Hi,

Compliment of the Season,I am Mr. scorehius Martins from wyandotte MI,but am presently i am in United Kindom(London) for a bussiness trip.I saw your item below and i will like to buy it for my child in Africa which will be starting a science course in University of Unsuka Nigeria this week .Do not worry about the shipping , i will pay up with the shipping charges ..i would have prefer to send you a cheque but simply because i want you to ship the item out as soon as posible..i will be sending you payment via PayPal,so make sure you pack up the item for shipment ..Am off to work as soon as i get back from work i will mail out your payment ...And kinly send me your PayPal Email Address .so i can make out your Payment ..You can ship the item as soon as you recieve the PayPal confirmation....here is my phone number +4339902232 ..have a lovely day
scorehius

My Response: wrote:Sir. You didn't win my auction. You used BIN and unregistered. Therefore there would be no reason for you to send payment or for me to ship anything to you.

Next email (They keep getting better): wrote:Hello,
Thanks for the bussiness ..Sorry for the dellay.I have mail out your Payment for the item Purchase.I also mail out an Extral $150.00 to Cover the shipping Cost to my son in Nigeria.So you can afford to shipped out the item to my son with the courier service *USPS Global Express (US Postal service ) 3-5 days Delivery.Cause i notice Shipping International cost alot with other Courier.So check your mail for Confirmation mail from PayPal and get back to me as soon as posible.Below is my son shipping address..Feel free to mail me if you have any problem with the shipping cost..And dont forget to send the shipment tracking number to paypal at (verificationclearx@earthling.net) for shipment tracking verification as soon as they verifies that the item as been ship out your account will be credited...Nice doing Bussiness with you,have a nice day
Shipping Address.
Name......willson Martins
Address...... No 6 oluwalogbon close off toyin stNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
City..............ikeja
State..................Lagos
Country..........Nigeria
Zip code...........23401

My response: wrote:Sir. You are not understanding me. You used the Buy It Now function on ebay and then canceled your account. I will not accept any outside ebay deals or sales. If you send me money I will immediatly refund it back to you. If you want to purchase something from me, then reregister on eBay and buy my item through there. If these terms are not acceptable then I have nothing else to say to you.

And finally the best email ever:

From Pay.Pal.Com (Yeah you read that right) wrote:
Dear TheMuffin
Thanks for using PayPal®, your money is US $475.00 ,for ebay item #120105707153, reason for payment and the money is paid in by willson Martins. Due to the fact that most sellers don't send the item despite the fact that buyers have paid for the item, so we made the policy that sellers must ship out items within 48 hours of payment and send us the tracking number for verification.
You are not expected in any circumstances to send the tracking number to the buyer.
Below is your PayPal details.if the information is correct pls mail us back.
The money will be transfer into your account immediately we recieve the shipment tracki ng number.

When you are not covered by the Seller's Protection Policy, shipping to a buyer's Confirmed Address helps to reduce your risk of dealing with a fraudulent buyer. Since Confirmed Addresses are checked against the billing address maintained by the buyer's credit card company, shipping to a Confirmed Address reduces the risk that your buyer is using a stolen credit card. Confirmed Addresses must be in the name of the account holder, and those Gift Addresses in someone else's name can never be confirmed. Note: Worldwide addresses can be confirmed at this time.

Order Details
Paypal confirmation number: 0881-3272-9349-6732-4215
*******************************************************
Item Tittle Sony Playstation Portable PSP Games
Auction Item Amount US $275.00
Includes shipping of auction item.
Service Fees: US $200.00

Shipment Fees: US $00.00
Upon approval, a postal order delivered via
First Class® Mail will be received in
approximately 3-4 business days.

Total Charges: US $475.00
*******************************************************
Shipping Address.

Name......willson Martins

Address...... No 6 oluwalogbon close off toyin stNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

City..............ikeja

State..................Lagos

Country..........Nigeria

Zip code...........23401

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Once we recive the Tracking number and confirm it your payment will be sent to you immediately
x

SIGNED:
PAYPAL ACCOUNTANT.




If we did not hear from you, the payment will be return back to the buyer,and we are waiting for you to ship the item and mail us the shipment tracking number so that we can send out your payment.
Thank you for using PayPal®. We look forward to serving you online
auction payment needs in the future.
Sincerely,
PayPal®
Send The Tracking Number to verificationclearx@earthling.net
REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS PLEASE
verificationclearx@earthling.net

Not only did they use the wrong username (I go by greenmuffin18 on eBay) but they didn't even use an official PayPal logo....Or proper grammar, punctuation and spelling.

I'm not making this **** up folks. This really did happen yesterday and today. Lucky for me eBay has given me a credit and I've gotten my PSP relisted with some tweaks to avoid this happening again. Be wary people. Friends and family who aren't as sharp on the internet could easily get sucked into this with little difficulty.[/quote]

Nightwatcher wrote:I recently put up my PSP and all the fixins up on eBay to make a couple extra bucks. Set up a BIN of $275 and figured I'd make a hundred or so. I get the always funny "will you ship this to my son in Nigeria" question which happens with every bodies auction anymore. I of course say no to him and think nothing more of it. Next morning and to my surprise someone used the BIN function! So I'm freaking hopping up and down in my chair when I log in and such to send him his invoice.

Huh? Wait...Why is it saying he's unregistered? I check the name of the unregistered winner....It's the same guy who asked if I would ship to his son.... So I'm thinking ok maybe something happened that caused him to close his account....And then the emails came.

Read the quote headings to see who sent what to who.

Read below:

First email: wrote:Re: You Won eBay Item: Sony Playstation Portable PSP Games, case and more! (120105707153)
Hi,

Compliment of the Season,I am Mr. scorehius Martins from wyandotte MI,but am presently i am in United Kindom(London) for a bussiness trip.I saw your item below and i will like to buy it for my child in Africa which will be starting a science course in University of Unsuka Nigeria this week .Do not worry about the shipping , i will pay up with the shipping charges ..i would have prefer to send you a cheque but simply because i want you to ship the item out as soon as posible..i will be sending you payment via PayPal,so make sure you pack up the item for shipment ..Am off to work as soon as i get back from work i will mail out your payment ...And kinly send me your PayPal Email Address .so i can make out your Payment ..You can ship the item as soon as you recieve the PayPal confirmation....here is my phone number +4339902232 ..have a lovely day
scorehius

My Response: wrote:Sir. You didn't win my auction. You used BIN and unregistered. Therefore there would be no reason for you to send payment or for me to ship anything to you.

Next email (They keep getting better): wrote:Hello,
Thanks for the bussiness ..Sorry for the dellay.I have mail out your Payment for the item Purchase.I also mail out an Extral $150.00 to Cover the shipping Cost to my son in Nigeria.So you can afford to shipped out the item to my son with the courier service *USPS Global Express (US Postal service ) 3-5 days Delivery.Cause i notice Shipping International cost alot with other Courier.So check your mail for Confirmation mail from PayPal and get back to me as soon as posible.Below is my son shipping address..Feel free to mail me if you have any problem with the shipping cost..And dont forget to send the shipment tracking number to paypal at (verificationclearx@earthling.net) for shipment tracking verification as soon as they verifies that the item as been ship out your account will be credited...Nice doing Bussiness with you,have a nice day
Shipping Address.
Name......willson Martins
Address...... No 6 oluwalogbon close off toyin stNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
City..............ikeja
State..................Lagos
Country..........Nigeria
Zip code...........23401

My response: wrote:Sir. You are not understanding me. You used the Buy It Now function on ebay and then canceled your account. I will not accept any outside ebay deals or sales. If you send me money I will immediatly refund it back to you. If you want to purchase something from me, then reregister on eBay and buy my item through there. If these terms are not acceptable then I have nothing else to say to you.

And finally the best email ever:

From Pay.Pal.Com (Yeah you read that right) wrote:
Dear TheMuffin
Thanks for using PayPal®, your money is US $475.00 ,for ebay item #120105707153, reason for payment and the money is paid in by willson Martins. Due to the fact that most sellers don't send the item despite the fact that buyers have paid for the item, so we made the policy that sellers must ship out items within 48 hours of payment and send us the tracking number for verification.
You are not expected in any circumstances to send the tracking number to the buyer.
Below is your PayPal details.if the information is correct pls mail us back.
The money will be transfer into your account immediately we recieve the shipment tracki ng number.

When you are not covered by the Seller's Protection Policy, shipping to a buyer's Confirmed Address helps to reduce your risk of dealing with a fraudulent buyer. Since Confirmed Addresses are checked against the billing address maintained by the buyer's credit card company, shipping to a Confirmed Address reduces the risk that your buyer is using a stolen credit card. Confirmed Addresses must be in the name of the account holder, and those Gift Addresses in someone else's name can never be confirmed. Note: Worldwide addresses can be confirmed at this time.

Order Details
Paypal confirmation number: 0881-3272-9349-6732-4215
*******************************************************
Item Tittle Sony Playstation Portable PSP Games
Auction Item Amount US $275.00
Includes shipping of auction item.
Service Fees: US $200.00

Shipment Fees: US $00.00
Upon approval, a postal order delivered via
First Class® Mail will be received in
approximately 3-4 business days.

Total Charges: US $475.00
*******************************************************
Shipping Address.

Name......willson Martins

Address...... No 6 oluwalogbon close off toyin stNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

City..............ikeja

State..................Lagos

Country..........Nigeria

Zip code...........23401

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Once we recive the Tracking number and confirm it your payment will be sent to you immediately
x

SIGNED:
PAYPAL ACCOUNTANT.




If we did not hear from you, the payment will be return back to the buyer,and we are waiting for you to ship the item and mail us the shipment tracking number so that we can send out your payment.
Thank you for using PayPal®. We look forward to serving you online
auction payment needs in the future.
Sincerely,
PayPal®
Send The Tracking Number to verificationclearx@earthling.net
REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS PLEASE
verificationclearx@earthling.net

Not only did they use the wrong username (I go by greenmuffin18 on eBay) but they didn't even use an official PayPal logo....Or proper grammar, punctuation and spelling.

I'm not making this **** up folks. This really did happen yesterday and today. Lucky for me eBay has given me a credit and I've gotten my PSP relisted with some tweaks to avoid this happening again. Be wary people. Friends and family who aren't as sharp on the internet could easily get sucked into this with little difficulty.

[/quote]
That's funny. More so since I am on my friends computer in Wyandotte right now. hahahaha

you caught me...... you caught the tater....... see kiddies this is why i say no to ebay

What is with Nigeria?
I have access to one of my dads email accounts
and read a letter from the Office of the President of Nigeria.
No kidding. It said he had been contacted by scam artists in Nigeria and he should cooperate with the government and no one else. It had a list of about 10 names that could have been used.
Then I found the letter the 'Presidents' office had referred to. It basically stated my father had owed them money and
they could work something out for less than what he owed them.
He was instructed to give them access to his bank and the account so they could resolve the matter. Only the email account was basically for spam and a dummy account in case he or I didn't want to offer up our real email address. After I told him to find it and read it(there are over 100,000 unread emails in this account) he had a real good laugh.

LOL, I get those letters in my email all the time. When you have 10 different people in Nigeria tryng to give you a hundred million for no work, ya kinda notice that its a scam, lol.

Nightwatcher, that is some funny ****. I was dieing laughing. Reminded me of the old Diablo 2 days when people would go out of their way to work scams, lol.

This is hilarious and quite weird at the same time. About 6 months ago I tried selling my PSP on ebay, mainly because there were no good games coming out, and I had the same type of stuff happen to me.

I love how they tried to send out an offical looking PayPal e-mail and still can't spell. I get phony e-mails like that about once a month or so. Some of them are pretty funny.

I get the phony paypal emails all the time. My favorite is the one telling me I was going to be sued for not sending computer to a “buyer” in Europe.

Cads! It's a dangerous world.