are all ebay people from nigeria scammers?

[imthebadguy]

survey says.....YES

 

[Schadenfreude]

In a word . . . well, let's play a game.

It's a three-letter word, starts with the letter "Y", ands with the letter "S", and the middle letter is "E".

Can you guess?

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Nigeria doesn't even exist. It's just a country invented by the scammers

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Jesus, Mo0o, they have maps now. Those rat bastards think of everything.

They've got their scamming hands on everything!

Indeed! They're up to their silly tricks again.

 

[mzkhadir]

YES

 

[yonjun]

can anyone explain how bidpay / western union scam works?
I'm trying sell a few things in local classified and still attracted by those nigeria scams.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: yonjun
can anyone explain how bidpay / western union scam works?
I'm trying sell a few things in local classified and still attracted by those nigeria scams.

Because a lot of local classified listings are published online. Other companies sell the service to smaller local papers; they list for multiple papers. Pretty accessible to anyone.

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: dpopiz
I've been trying to sell a laptop for a while on craigslist, and it still hasn't sold. so I put it up on ebay and instantly got bombarded with lots of OBVIOUS scams from nigeria (you know, the classic nigeria western union scam). well anyway, then today I got a buy it now. but the buyer wants it shipped to nigeria, so I'm suspicious.

here's the msg from him:
I would like to pay for this item via CHECK, you know my
address is in USA,but right now i'm in nigeria,i was sent there
on a church mission,and i want to give it to the head pastor as a
gift, so i will like to know if you can ship it to nigeria,i dont
mind paying any amount for the shipping cost,pls if you can do this
for me i'll be very grateful.if you accept kindly send your full name
and address which am going to send the check to. Here's the shipping
address.
<address in nigeria>


should I ship it? and if I don't, is there an easy way to get ebay to refund my $7 for lisiting? (sure $7 isn't much, but just in case this happens the next time I list it)

Now think about this very varefully, "Did I really need to ask?".

 

[C'DaleRider]

Originally posted by: mcvickj
Good luck selling that. I tried selling my laptop 5 different times on eBay. Each time it ended up being some person with 0 feed back and some type of scam. Listing it on Craigslist also attracted the same jerks. I finally managed to sell it on AT FS/FT.

You can get eBay to credit the fees. Just report a Unpaid Item (its under Services) Tell em what happened. They will look into it and give you an answer within 48 hours. They will give you a Final Fee Value credit.

I believe there is a way where you have to approve each bid before they actually become the highest bidder. I really wish there was a better way to filter who bids on my auctions. In my auction I clearly stated I would not ship out of US but that didn't matter. Don't even bother using Buy It Now. That just makes things worse.

Actually, there is a way to set seller's preference filters. You can set your auctions so they block people with frequent non-paying bidder, block bidders not in country you ship to, block bidders below a zero feedback....you cannot block just zero feedback, unfortunately. Or you can set your preferences to make each bidder get approved to bid before they can actually place a bid.

 

[Brackis]

In case any of you are interested in how the scams work and the many types, plus people who fvck with these scammers:
http://thescambaiter.com

 

[imported_Kensai]

Isn't it just a little obvious?

 

[mwmorph]

well, a lot of scams seem to come from china now.
<--chinaman so i know their tricks.

 

[Blazin Trav]

yes.