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Some noob is trying to scam me...thinking of shipping him...

daneoni

daneoni

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Mar 24, 2006
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...a nice big rock with the note 'Here's your iPhone...A s s h o l e!'. Too much?
 
What scam is he trying to pull? The fake paypal message? The dear sir or madam? The money order scheme?
 
amd4me said:
What scam is he trying to pull? The fake paypal message? The dear sir or madam? The money order scheme?
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He placed a ridiculoud bid on my auction forcing others out. When the auction ended ebay kicked him off the site. He then faked an ebay apology email saying he was wrongly kicked off and that i should infact carry out the transaction

Following that, he fakes a PayPal payment email and promptly sends me his address in nice big bold letters. He lives in Dagenham
 
daneoni said:
He placed a ridiculoud bid on my auction forcing others out. When the auction ended ebay kicked him off the site. He then faked an ebay apology email saying he was wrongly kicked off and that i should infact carry out the transaction

Following that he fakes a PayPal payment email and promptly sends me his address in nice big bold letters. He lives in Dagenham
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send it to him...
 
If you want to go through with it, the next step is for you to setup a Paypal account that all of us can send you a buck in order to cover the shipping charges. Not that I've ever contributed to such nonsense in the past or anything...

:D
 
In all seriousness, I'd just forget it... you can get yourself into a lot of trouble shipping certain things across state lines. Not to mention, even if all you send is a rock or a brick, a scammer isn't exactly the sort of person you want to put in a position to make any "claims" based on your failure to send him the advertised item... or worse/weirder/etc. I'd rather just keep my distance. Know what I mean?
 
Give it a few days for a payment to clear. Transfer the payment to your account then send him what he fairly paid for.

IF he doesnt clear the payment, send him iPhone inserts or if you're as extreme as me, try to get your hands on a broken iPhone, break it up even more by smashing the screen, then disassemble it and send it to him in pieces. :)

Or you could get your hands on an old Nokia cellphone and just mail that over to him. :)
 
Maclver said:
LOL thats rich
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its a long story..but I am amazed it worked. Haha, Kinda cool he was able to get spies where the scammer lived--hehe. To bad an iphone isnt worth more than a grand or you could get the spammer to pay a lot for a box--lol
 
ryanvalle said:
Give it a few days for a payment to clear. Transfer the payment to your account then send him what he fairly paid for.

IF he doesnt clear the payment, send him iPhone inserts or if you're as extreme as me, try to get your hands on a broken iPhone, break it up even more by smashing the screen, then disassemble it and send it to him in pieces. :)

Or you could get your hands on an old Nokia cellphone and just mail that over to him. :)
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Thats just it there was NO payment of any kind. He only fabricated emails.
 
notjustgc said:
In all seriousness, I'd just forget it... you can get yourself into a lot of trouble shipping certain things across state lines. Not to mention, even if all you send is a rock or a brick, a scammer isn't exactly the sort of person you want to put in a position to make any "claims" based on your failure to send him the advertised item... or worse/weirder/etc. I'd rather just keep my distance. Know what I mean?
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Its the same city. He has no claim to ANYTHING because he didn't pay for anything
 
Go buy an iPhone case (make sure it comes with an iPhone insert) and then you have a case and the scammer has a iFake
 
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