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Email from bidpay through consultant.com legit?

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Techie333

Platinum Member
I am selling an item on ebay and the winner is a guy that wants it shipped to Nigeria. Now he claims he is sending me a western union money order through bidpay after hassling him a little. I get an email from bidpay_for_customers@consultant.com and it reads as follows:
Dear Amal Patel

This is to notify you that Western Union® Auction Payments (Bidpay®)has received an order placed by the buyer of your auction item to have a Western Union® branded Money OrderSM from Tessy Stone to inform you of the order sent to you as payment for the auction item: Nokia 3120 GSM Color Cell Phone UNLOCKED cingular w SIM , the order is currently being processed.
The details of the transaction are stated below:
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AUCTION SITE : Ebay
AUCTION ITEM : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ITEM NUMBER : 579344xxxx

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FINANCIAL DETAILS*
(NOTE: All amounts are in £)
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AUCTION AMOUN :US $88.00
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TOTAL : US $88.00
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Once the order is processed successfully, you will receive another email from Bidpay® informing you that the order has been approved and then a Western Union® branded Money OrderSM will be sent directly to you once payment has been finally confirmed.

The Money OrderSM will be delivered to the address below, Please verify that the name and address (As entered by the buyer)are correct:








xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




You can register if you are new to Bidpay® or you can update your profile if you are already a registered user.

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PLEASE NOTE: This is only a notification informing you that the buyer has made payment to Bidpay®, The payment is currently being processed and so it is regarded as PENDING as it is still subject to APPROVAL after being successfully processed.

Bidpay® hereby advises you NOT to ship the merchandise until you have received another message from Bidpay® stating that the order has been APPROVED,Please exercise some patience as the process usually takes between 6 and 24 hours.

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*CUSTOMER SUPPORT*
A Bidpay Customer Support Representative has been assigned to this particular order and He/She will contact you soon. You can ask Him or Her any questions as regards this order or any of our services. For more information, you can simply visit the and read through the
FAQs.

Thank you for using Western Union® Auction Payments.We look forward to serving your online auction payment needs better in the future.


Bidpay Team,
Western Union Auction Payments
Bidpay Agent
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Is this legit?!?!?
 
:roll: of course it is legit. But you'll need to send the buyer your bank account number and PIN to complete the transaction.
 
Originally posted by: Techie333
Is it possible to receive a bidpay notice from that email address?
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Of course, all billion-dollar companies use free email sites for sending their correspondence.
 
Originally posted by: Techie333
Is it possible to receive a bidpay notice from that email address?
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I will bet $1,000 that you are going to be scammed, and I don't know squat about bidpay. I'm supremely confident I'm right, because you mentioned the word "Nigeria".
 
Originally posted by: Techie333
Is it possible to receive a bidpay notice from that email address?
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If you're honestly asking this question, then you deserve to get scammed.

--Mark
 
anything that even says the word nigera is a scam..thats why in all my auctions i put that i will only ship to lower 48 states in the USA, no canada and foreign shipments...not only that, you can block people that arent registered in your shipping area from bidding or even viewing it so you wont have this problem. (forget Alaska and hawaii.)
 
Man, I'm not going to be scammed because I will not ship until I see the money, however, it's fair to say this is a scam. Goddamit, wasting my time, now I will have to relist on ebay.
 
Relist = better than being out $88 and whatever you shipped out.

Even if they did pay you and the funds showed up into the account, it might be a week or two before your bank tries to pull the funds from the original account and find that it doesn't exist. Then they withdrawl the funds from your account and you are left to battle out the money from your buyer.
 
Originally posted by: jamesbond007
Relist = better than being out $88 and whatever you shipped out.

Even if they did pay you and the funds showed up into the account, it might be a week or two before your bank tries to pull the funds from the original account and find that it doesn't exist. Then they withdrawl the funds from your account and you are left to battle out the money from your buyer.
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They can do that!?!??! I thought once it showed up in your account, you are good to go.
 
Originally posted by: Techie333
Originally posted by: jamesbond007
Relist = better than being out $88 and whatever you shipped out.

Even if they did pay you and the funds showed up into the account, it might be a week or two before your bank tries to pull the funds from the original account and find that it doesn't exist. Then they withdrawl the funds from your account and you are left to battle out the money from your buyer.
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They can do that!?!??! I thought once it showed up in your account, you are good to go.
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Since they are forged money orders I'm guessing it would show up right away due to the nature of money orders (they are supposed to available immediately). It would only be after the bank tries to collect the money from Western Union that the money order would be proven fraudulent. I doubt any bank would want to take that hit.

But I have no idea if that really happens, this is just what I would think would happen with a fake money order.
 
Originally posted by: Techie333
Originally posted by: jamesbond007
Relist = better than being out $88 and whatever you shipped out.

Even if they did pay you and the funds showed up into the account, it might be a week or two before your bank tries to pull the funds from the original account and find that it doesn't exist. Then they withdrawl the funds from your account and you are left to battle out the money from your buyer.
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They can do that!?!??! I thought once it showed up in your account, you are good to go.
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Look, if you're asked to ship to Nigeria, and someone showed up at your door to pay you in cash before you ship, you can rest assured that somehow, some way, you're being STILL going to be scammed.

Reminds me of that quote from Guys and Dolls: "Son, someday a man is going to walk up to you with a sealed deck of cards fresh from the factory, and say, 'I bet I can make the jack of spades jump out of this deck and squirt cider in your ear.' Son, when you meet this man, do not take his bet. For as sure as the sun rises every morning, if you do take the bet, the jack of spades will jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear.' "

They are professional scammers. They are going to make sure you don't get your money. So even if you THINK you got the money, you didn't.
 
Originally posted by: Techie333
Originally posted by: jamesbond007
Relist = better than being out $88 and whatever you shipped out.

Even if they did pay you and the funds showed up into the account, it might be a week or two before your bank tries to pull the funds from the original account and find that it doesn't exist. Then they withdrawl the funds from your account and you are left to battle out the money from your buyer.
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They can do that!?!??! I thought once it showed up in your account, you are good to go.
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Yes, yes they can. They're going to give you "free money" if they can't collect it from the source.

--Mark
 
Originally posted by: Techie333
Originally posted by: jamesbond007
Relist = better than being out $88 and whatever you shipped out.

Even if they did pay you and the funds showed up into the account, it might be a week or two before your bank tries to pull the funds from the original account and find that it doesn't exist. Then they withdrawl the funds from your account and you are left to battle out the money from your buyer.
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They can do that!?!??! I thought once it showed up in your account, you are good to go.
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yes they can...beware...it might mess up your feedback but beware.
 
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