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ebay and nigeria
graememk - 3/7/08 at 12:53 PM

just sold 4 shop soiled laptops on ebay, and noticed they have all been bought by some guy from nigeria who joined ebay this morning.

anyway i sent a invoice with £500 postage on each and its just been paid into my paypal account, so i've just called my bank canceled my card that connected to my account, have also emailed paypal and ebay.

anyone knows what happends next ?


donut - 3/7/08 at 01:00 PM

oooooh lets think....hmmmm

they tried to take ALL your money out including what sin your account?

So have you got there money now? hope so!! he he that would teach them!


mookaloid - 3/7/08 at 01:00 PM

Have you kept the money?


graememk - 3/7/08 at 01:06 PM

money is in my account
4x£500 delivery
2x£205 laptops
2X£235

nearly £3k but trouble is it wont be there money, it will be someother poor blokes account


eznfrank - 3/7/08 at 01:18 PM

Don't be tempted to move the money anywhere. Moving £ which you have reason to believe may be the "proceeds fo crime" is an offence!

That being said, any other funds in there which are not from this transaction i'd shift out and do whatever else you can to protect yourself and then just sit tight.

Has he sent any postal details yet?

Also could call Ebay as email may be in a queue.


graememk - 3/7/08 at 01:26 PM

moved all my money out of the account already just that transaction in there


big_wasa - 3/7/08 at 02:46 PM

I think the scam is you send the lapies and he will get his money back from paypal and you loose both


graememk - 3/7/08 at 02:50 PM

got to be a scam as he's paid me £2000 in postage lol


mookaloid - 3/7/08 at 09:46 PM

Send him some crappy old worthless lappys then you can get proof of delivery