What Kind of Scam is This?

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: randay
Compliment of the season to you. I am a 1337 PH1SH3R from Nigeria and I have recently stolen some paypal and fedex accounts. If you would be so kind to ship the item to Nigeria I will send you stolen money immediately to your paypal account. I away you PAYPAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION so that I can send the money and you can ship the item to me immediately. Once I get your PAYPAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION I will immediately send money and then you can immediately ship your laptop to me in Nigeria. Please give me your PAYPAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION quickly so that I can immediately send the money and you will recieve it then you will immediately ship your laptop to me in Nigeria. Immediately. PAYPAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION. money. Nigeria. ship. Immediately.

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[AbsolutDealage]

BTW OP: You may want to consider mailing some bricks or rocks... or something else creative to the scammer (ala p-p-p-powerbook) 😉

(Assuming they give you a valid fedex shipping account).

 

[QED]

Yeah, the way this scam usually works is they spoof an official look e-mail from PayPal stating that the buyer sent you a payment. That is why he wants you to have it boxed and ready to ship now-- that way, by the time you think to actually log in to Paypal and verify he really did send the money, your laptop is already half-way around the world.