Thread: Selling on trading post

From Sean Hankel??

Nigerian scammers....

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

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-ch...-scammers.html



Colin

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..)

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

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

Originally Posted by 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..)

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

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.....