Selling on trading post

[marko66]

Hi All

Put the 110 on the trading post about 4 this after noon the eighteenth and so far I have had five enquires :mad::twisted:

All are from offshore workers who want to pay me immedietely on paypal and then their courier will come and pick it up - all their mobile numbers don't work - surprise surprise.

Any fun and games to be had here???

Regards Mark

[Cliffy]

From Sean Hankel??

Nigerian scammers....

[marko66]

Hi Cliffy

I have a Bradley Smith, Steven Collins, Don Clench, Edward Hills, Gee Brooks, and Leeanne Kruege . They all work offshore on a rig, all the rigs have broken phones and most of them want to buy the vehicle for their fathers

What they all want is my paypal account name and the physical address so maybe this enables them to then change the password

Regards Mark

[gromit]

I had the same when selling the wife's car recently.

I set up a Yahoo account just for the sale so used this to play with them for a while. They all started off " have you sold your ride...", I replied by email "no I haven't sold my ride", after the next email I asked them "which ride as I have 15 vehicles for sale at the moment ..."
My Yahoo email was bogussale@yahoo.com.au and they didn't pick up on this.

Eventually someone AULRO suggested signing them up for free porn downloads which I did. Their email address may be only transient but it made me feel better because they had to create another one.....

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-chat/133312-car-site-scammers.html



Colin

[digger]

Tell him you work for a telecommunications firm that is cintracted to keep contacts and TV etc working on the rigs, ask him which one he is on....

theyre nothing if not persistant!..

(maybe I can get a solicitor I have in Nigeria look into it for you... I just sent him a few grand to get my multi billion dollar inheritance..)

[roverfan]

Keep them going with fake details, hopefully by wasting their time with you and they don't get some poor sucker.

[Sleepy]

You could also drop an email to the trading post. I am sure they are aware of these scams. Perhaps they, and ebay, should be helping by posting warnings on their site????? They could also take more effective action than us punters.

Or perhaps they dont wish to scare real customers away;)

[loanrangie]

Tell him you work for a telecommunications firm that is cintracted to keep contacts and TV etc working on the rigs, ask him which one he is on....

theyre nothing if not persistant!..

(maybe I can get a solicitor I have in Nigeria look into it for you... I just sent him a few grand to get my multi billion dollar inheritance..)

I'll take your solicitor and raise you a Nigerian Prince :p, ah the circles i mix in.

[cal415]

Gromit, its amazing how they miss things like that, i responded to a SMS i got from someone who was buying my car from england apparently as they had planned to relocate out here, i sent them my email address contact as eat****anddie@go****yourself.com they replied to the SMS after a few days saying that it had bounced back and asked me to check it was correct.....

[Cliffy]

Yep, I get them all the time when advertising.
They are not phased even when you tell them they have been reported to FEDPOL.

[pfillery]

You could also drop an email to the trading post. I am sure they are aware of these scams. Perhaps they, and ebay, should be helping by posting warnings on their site????? They could also take more effective action than us punters.

Or perhaps they dont wish to scare real customers away;)

I reported a similar issue to a similar online sales outlet when I sold a car a while back. I was met with complete and total denial that anything was sourced from their site and I must be mistaken, we have sophisticated measures to stop scammers from emailing you etc etc. Don't see how they could control it when all they have is my email address on display for buyers to contact directly. But they refused to do anything about it.

[gromit]

When I advertised the wife's car I had scammers from the Cars Guide advert but none from Car Sales.

Colin

[afro-landrover]

When I advertised the wife's car I had scammers from the Cars Guide advert but none from Car Sales.

Colini had some sms from carsales and some phone calls

[SuperMono]

If you have the time to wind some of these characters up a bit and at least waste their time, go for it.

One resource for some ideas is: 419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet! (http://www.419eater.com/)

I had about a month of email to and fro with a dodgy D3 sale recently, I am one of those with a dodgy email address that is used specifically for this purpose.

[Sleepy]

If you have the time to wind some of these characters up a bit and at least waste their time, go for it.

One resource for some ideas is: 419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet! (http://www.419eater.com/)

I had about a month of email to and fro with a dodgy D3 sale recently, I am one of those with a dodgy email address that is used specifically for this purpose.

Love your work SuperM. Perhaps we should start a collective. The ANTI SCAMMERS Society (ASS).:cool: Dedicated to delaying, confusing and annoying the hell out of these lowelife scum.:mad: We could also have a sub-unit of the "ASS" that deals with telephone marketers. :angel:

[Mick_Marsh]

I love the idea of signing them up for porn.
Or perhaps introducing them to one of those Russian chics.

[flagg]

I love the idea of signing them up for porn.
Or perhaps introducing them to one of those Russian chics.

Feel free to sign me up as well :lol:

[Sleepy]

Feel free to sign me up as well :lol:

Done! She will be calling you soon.


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[sheerluck]

Done! She will be calling you soon.


http://frankmelvinbraden.com/images/russia/russia%20lady%20copy.jpg



HEY! Where did you get a picture of my Mum?!

[Sleepy]

Found it on the interweb.............must have been sheerluck:Thump:

[blitz]

Ages ago when the nigerian scammers first started I go one, realised it was bull before I had even finished reading it. then thought I would have some fun so I wrote back "I have put a lot of thought into this and as you have indicated that you prayed (preyed) that I am an honest person I thought I would pray to god for guidance, and was I suprised when she answered me She said you are a very very evil person and that she has already told Satan that you are going to hell and that she has made sure that Satan has a special spot set aside for you, your children, your parents, your brothers and sisters, in fact every one that you know because you are so evil"

I then went on to say "I really think you should repent , join a monestry give all your money to charity and live in a cave for the rest of your life begging forgiveness from God as she is very very angry with you"

He replied almost instantly and I must have hit a cord with him as he was unbelieveably rude and colourful in his reply, particulary about God being a "she" I strung him along for about a month before I got bored with all of it my final relpy to him was "and just so you realise, by being tied up with insulting me for the last month you have been to busy to pull your pathetic scam on anyone else, rot in hell you piece of vomit. I never got a relpy.

[Barney2803]

If I may.... I actually know someone who got busted by a Nigerian scam.

He ran a very successful business consultancy firm and thought God was providing for him to help his local church blah blah blah. He Took $100,000AUD on a plan to Nigeria as the deposit for gazillions from them. My brother heard the news reports of these scams on the radio and happenned to mention it to his business partner as just idle chit-chat and then it all fell into place as the scams were very very new back then. His partner and him Realized it was a scam when he was boarding his last leg of like 30hours of flying and he just had time to walk off the plane. He took the next flight back to safe territory and within minutes of him not getting on the plane for the last leg from Frankfurt to somewhere in Nigeria, the scammers were on the phone to his partners sydney number asking what happened. He said his partner had pulled out and things got a little messy on the phone. He was very close to losing everything and from all reports since, he probably would have been kidnapped and held hostage for a ransom, that his consultancy business would have had to pay to free him.

It was a very chilling story he told us one night that went for hours and hours and he was saved only due to my brothers random comment to his business partner about these " new" Nigerian scams. That was in the early 90's.

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