The perfect Craigslist Nigeria Scam, they getting smarter
The perfect Craigslist Nigeria Scam, they getting smarter and they
coming for your money….
Well, This Scam is state of the art, it is elite, it is the top of the line scam and I’m impressed that I have to do a post on it. Only if these Nigerian scam arties put all that scamming energy towards something positive, I think they would make a big difference in this world.
I’m selling a Macbook Pro 17″ for $1,795 which cost me $2,800, below is the
conversation with the scammer…
First the scammer ask if the item still for sale, here we go….the Scammer
is Deborah Smith.
Scammer Deborah Smith:
Is the item still up for sale?
Seller Anthony:
Item is still for sale…
Scammer Deborah Smith: Reply
Hi
Thanks alot for the reply,i very much appreciate your reply and i
believe that the item is in its best condition? and can be presented
as a brithday gift? i will pay $1895 and please note that am shipping
the item to an overseas partner so i will include $200 shipping fee,i
will arrange for the payment of the item via paypal cos i believe its
the best to make an online transaction,so send me your paypal email
address or request for a payment so that i can proceed with the
payment of the item
asap.
Thank you very much hope to hear from you soon.
Seller Anthony:
At this point I knew its a Scam but I’m curious to know
if they will actually send the money to my PayPal account, This would be
something new so I play along and send the reply below
Please send payment to sales@XXXXXX.com, I will ship the item when
payment is received.
Anthony,
Scammer Deborah Smith: Reply
ok…i’ll send the payment to your account now and i’ll mail you as
soon as i send the payment with the shipping address……i really
want to buy this item and i’ll be happy if you can delete this item
off from craiglist,cos i will not want you to sell this item for
anothere person…….Thank you very much for understand…..
Get back to you soon……
Seller Anthony:
I checked my mail and I received a payment confirmation with all the graphics logo and all the authentication that PayPal
would used, but one thing was missing, no money was in my PayPal account. Read
the scammer payment confirmation below.
Dear Valued Customer (sales@XXXXXX.com),
You have an Instant Payment of $2,095.00 USD from
Deborah Smith (dbora.smith@googlemail.com)
Deborah Smith is a Verified Buyer.
| Purchased From : sales@XXXXXX.com |
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Transaction ID:
 75848272WC001670H |
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Shipping & Handling via
USPS Priority Mail to 368XX (includes any seller handling fees) |
$200.00 USD
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Shipping Insurance (not offered):
|
–
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 |
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Total:
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$2,095.00 USD
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For security purposes,
PayPal
payment has been deducted from the buyer’s account and has been ”
APPROVED ” but will not be
credited to your account until the shipment reference/tracking number is
sent to us for shipment verification so as to secure both the buyer and the
seller. Below are the necessary information requested before your account
will be credited. Send tracking number to us or email us through this mail
shippment.information@accountant.com
and our customer service care
will attend to you. As soon as you send us the shipment’s tracking number to
us for security purposes and the safety of the buyer and the seller,the
money will be credited to your account.
**PLEASE NOTE**
Once shipment has been verified and the tracking number has been sent to
us, You will receive a “CONFIRMATION Email” from PayPal informing you that
the Money has been credited to your
PayPal account.
Second email from scammer below:
You have a payment pending
made by “Deborah Smith”
to your PayPal
account.The payment has been successfully made but due to security
reasons,so not until you send to us the shipment tracking,your money will
remain in our
ESCROW.
both Seller and Buyers against fraudulent activities.Once you have ship the
item,send the shipment tracking number to PayPal
Customer Service Department
:
shippment.information@accountant.com
**PLEASE NOTE**
Once shipment has been verified and the tracking number sent to
us,You will receive a “CONFIRMATION Email” from PayPal informing you that
the Money has been credited.
We thank you
for your prompt attention to this matter.Please understand that this is a
security measure intended
to help protect you and your account.We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
PayPal verification Department
—————————————————————-
PayPal Email ID PP638
Third Email from Scammer:
Seller Anthony:
At this point I was like wow and starting to think how much money these people scam daily and free merchandise they received. If I was
new to the internet or even some people I think could be trick with a scam like
this, it seems very convincing. At this point, I was saying to myself, why not
try trick and outsmart the scammer. So I send the reply below.
Seller Anthony: Reply
Hello,
I received payment information of $2,095, but I need $150 now to pay for
express shipping fee, can you please release that amount….?
Anthony,
Scammer Deborah Smith: Reply
i not the one….but i’ll advice you to borrow the money to shipped
the item out…and they will credit the money to your account as soon
as you shipped the item out….so get the money fast…..that is
it….
Get back to me as soon as you shipped the item out…
End of Scam story…
Craigslist is loaded with scammer and I received about 10 scammer email each day
since I list that laptop on Craiglist. I would advice anyone selling anything on
Craiglist or any other classified marketplace to complete the transaction in
person if its a big ticket item. The Scammer are getting smarter buy the
hour and they are coming up with some ingenious way to get your money or product
for free. By the time I complete this post, I received a typical scam
email which I post below.
Hello,
Thanks for your mail, I am glad to hear that the item is still for sale, Because
i have been looking for this type for long now, I hope is as stated in your
address, Because i am buyiong it as a gift to my son, I will be paying you
through Paypal which i believe is 100% safe for online transaction, Kindly
provide me with your paypal account for the immediate payment, Incase if you
don’t have account with paypal, You can provide me with your Full Name and Home
address for the payment to be sent through Money order Which i believe is also
secure for online transaction. I will want you to consider the item as sold and
stop receiving any other offer from others because i will be sending out the
payment immediately i receive the requested information for the payment. I will
take care of whatever the shipment will cost, so you don’t need to bother
yourself regarding the shipping tax. I will be adding extra fee for the shipment
when sending the payment.
I am waiting to hear from you soon.
mark.
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I hate these dam Nigerian Monkey fucker, why they dont go to Hell or go lie down in some bush and let some monkey fuck them in the ASS.
I cant list nothing on Craigslist without been pest by some dam Nigerian scam.
Craigslist is a dam feeding ground for low life Nigerian scum…
I got scammed by this same person. SAME exact story! bRithday gift and everything. I for some reason got the nerve to google the email address and found your listing here. THANK YOU!!!
Brittany, Glad I could help, did you actually ship the merchandise to these heartless people? I don’t know why these Nigerian so thief and it seems they getting more bold and aggressive with the scams.
One other trick you have to watch out for is that they will get someone in your area to hand delivered the check that will bounce after a few days leaving you owing the bank and lost of your merchandise.
Some of these Nigerian fraud and scams work out of an office with dozen of computer, and they are well trained to Scam others out of they money.
They now know you know Nigerian are scammer and you most likely wont ship to Nigeria, so what they doing now is have you ship to a US address which that address will reship to Nigeria.
The person from the US address don’t know they involved in a scam, they think they got a legit work at home job shipping storing and shipping merchandise to a Nigerian company who don’t have a US address.
The payment trick is that they will try to fool you that PayPal got an escrow system, so you will received a PayPal payment but the money will not release to you utile you provide tracking number.
I don’t know where this person comes from but if you refuse to ship, they will try to intimidate you by telling you that they will report you to PayPal FBI department. LOL
They working on a numbers game, the more people they try to scam the better the chance of scamming someone who has no idea about this Nigerian scammer.
That’s awesome how you messed with those idiots. I’m about to do the same thing now…it should be fun.
They trying hard to have me ship my laptop by sending me some fake PayPay email which stated its a escrow payment which funds will release once I provide tracking number to them.
Right off the back I know that Paypal dont have an escrow service, and PayPal have a dispute service just in case buyer and seller having a problem.
If you want to know if you dealing with a scam artist, you will have a few things to look out for.
.1 extra money or more than what the item really cost.
.2 Buyer need you to delete listing right away
.3 Buyer wants to send you extra shipping or payment via check, for example, Item selling for $800 but they want to send you $1,500.00 with extra shipping and you will deposit the fake check which will clear. You will send back a money order of the amount you didnt used, say $500.00. two weeks later the bank send you a letter that the $1,500 check is no good. Now you have to find that $500.00 to give back to the bank.
.4 If you really don’t want to be scam online, just don’t ship anything to Nigeria, even if your are a Nigerian and your mother from Nigeria trying to do business or get you involve in some business, its most likely a scam.
Most eCommerce platform and payment processing will give you the option to block visitors to your websit from Nigeria, that should tell you something.
I emailed both of my scammers and told them I wanted them to send me cash “ASAP” and that it was “Urgent” that they did so, just as they kept constantly stating LOL. I also told them to not forget to include the “extra” money they promised in the mail. That was the last I heard from all of them LOL.
Thanks for your post about this…we all need to waste their time just as they waste ours by trying that crap.
-SH
Thanks for reading, I notice my post coming up on Google search for Nigerian Scam. I hope this post will prevent others from been scammed.
Nigerian’s scam nets 19-year sentence
I got this on CNN, and you have to read it….
(CNN) — A college student in Nigeria has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for scamming an Australian woman out of $47,000 online by pretending to be a widowed white businessman desperately in love with her.
A court in Ikeja in southwest Nigeria ruled that Lawal Adekunie Nurudeen will also have to pay back the 56-year-old woman, even if it meant selling the two plots of land and the Honda Prelude he bought with her money.
Nurudeen was an engineering student when he met the woman online in 2007, said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria’s anti-corruption police.
The woman lamented that she was looking for a husband but had been disappointed in the men she had met.
“The convict, who is married with three children, instantly applied and told the victim that she had met Mr. Right,” the commission said in a statement.
Nurudeen pretended to be a 57-year-old British engineer working with a multinational company in Nigeria. He told her his wife and only child had died in a road accident in Lagos, the former capital of the country.
“He sent the picture of a white man to the victim to foreclose any suspicions,” police said. The woman agreed to marry him.
A few weeks later, Nurudeen called the woman pretending to be a doctor. He told her that her fiance had been in an accident and needed money for treatment.
The woman obliged, the commission said.
Nurudeen let two weeks pass. He then called the woman again, thanking her profusely for her kindness and telling her that he would like to visit her in Australia. He asked her for airfare, cash for customs clearance and other incidentals, police said.
Authorities did not say how Nurudeen was caught. But he duped the woman of $47,000 before his arrest, the commission said.
Scammers in Nigeria have gained a reputation for using the Internet to con foreign nationals out of money. Some of the scams have earned the name “419″ after the clause in the Nigerian criminal code that deals with obtaining property under false pretens
HA!!!! i am doing the same thing to someone who wants to purchase a digital slr camera… i even have the clown thinking it was shipped!!
heck, its a friday, and im bored and looking to fill in the day, so i thought i would yank around a scammer. if he is messing with me, then he isnt spending his time actually scamming someone else.
I highly recommend this to everyone out there, its a great stress relief, and it puts a smile on your face
LOL, The scammer leap over to Facebook Marketplace. Facebook Marketplace is infested with scammer that open a new Facebook account, copay some merchandise picture from Google Image, slash a price on it and then request money order.
These days, you have to me a smart buyer, read between the lines, ask question. Its also best that you pay with PayPal or other payment service where you can dispute the transaction if anything should happen.
Next time, i think i am going to my friend house(who has 2 dachshunds) and clean up around thier favorite area, and mail that to them, then i have a real tracking number to send them. Seems thats what they are reall anxious about getting.
I yanked this guy around all weekend, and just sent him, what he thought was a receipt, but instead it was a picture of an elderly man with his middle finger up, with a comment under it asking if they really think i was that stupid.
we should start a donation fund for people that get these, to be able to send them something(like dog droppings). i looked into it, and shipping was going to be expensive.
Nice story. Yours went a lot further than mine did. It’s on my site. It ended up only being email transactions and once I told the guy I wasn’t interested, he stopped replying. He was looking to send me a larger check than what I would have been asking for.
Well, If I did have access to the eBola Virus, I would mail it. This would put a permanent end to Nigerian scam because this virus would wipe out the entire region. OK now, I know some people probably sweating now but and asking them self, What if this blogger gets a hold of this virus.
Dont worry, I wouldn’t do such thing.
once i actually found out that it was going to cost $125 to ship them stuff from the backyard, i decided not to take it that far….
Maybe if you could find a Inland Taipan Sneak in your back yard, mail it to your scamer. I think if you make an example out of one or few scammer, the scamming will slow down to a creap.
Inland Taipan is the most Venomous and poisonous snake on earth. One bite from this serpent contains enough potent toxin about 110 milligrams to kill about 100 people
Or you could send a Poison Dart Frog.
The frog’s skin contains a toxic chemcal that sickens or kills any animal that touches or eats it. Two micrograms of this deadly toxin (enough to fit on the head of a pin) will easily kill a human being or other large mammanl.
The above is just for reading fun, please dont send poisonous dart frog or Inland Taipan sneak to Nigerian Scammer.
This guy tried to ding us too:
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:12:32 -0700
Subject: Confirmation of an Instant Payment Received from Allen Smith (smithallen212@gmail.com)
From: shippment.information@accountant.com
To: xxxxx@hotmail.com
PayPal
Dear Clara McKenzie (xxxx@hotmail.com),
You have an Instant Payment of $430.00 USD from Allen Smith (smithallen212@gmail.com)
Allen Smith is a Verified Buyer.
Payment Details
Purchased From : Clara McKenzie
Transaction ID:75848272WC001670H
Item #
Item Title
Quantity
Price
Subtotal
Not Include
UNLOCKED Red Blackberry Curve
1
$340.00 USD
$340.00 USD
Shipping & Handling via USPS Priority Mail to 368XX
(includes any seller handling fees)
$90.00 USD
Shipping Insurance (not offered):
–
Total:
$430.00 USD
Shipping Information
Address:
Tunde Adewale
Sw5/10 Ogo Oluwa Oke-Bola
Ibadan,Oyo States,23402
Nigeria
Shipping Method:
Address status:
Confirmed
For security purposes,
This PayPal payment has been deducted from the buyer’s account and has been ” APPROVED ” but will not be credited to your account until the shipment reference/tracking number is sent to us for shipment verification so as to secure both the buyer and the seller. Below are the necessary information requested before your account will be credited. Send tracking number to us or email us through this mail shippment.information@accountant.com and our customer service care will attend to you. As soon as you send us the shipment’s tracking number to us for security purposes and the safety of the buyer and the seller,the money will be credited to your account.
**PLEASE NOTE**
Once shipment has been verified and the tracking number has been sent to us, You will receive a “CONFIRMATION Email” from PayPal informing you that the Money has been credited to your PayPal account.
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
PayPal Email ID PP753
——————-followed by————————-
*** You have a payment pending ***
From: arubuola5533@gmail.com on behalf of service@paypal.com (shippment.information@accountant.com)
Sent: Fri 4/03/09 12:17 PM
To: xxxxx@hotmail.com
Character set: Learn more
PayPal
You have a payment pending
Dear Clara McKenzie,
This is to Notify you about the Payment made by “Allen Smith” to your PayPal account.The payment has been successfully made but due to security reasons,so not until you send to us the shipment tracking,your money will remain in our ESCROW.
This a new measure we are taking in order to protect both Seller and Buyers against fraudulent activities.Once you have ship the item,send the shipment tracking number to PayPal Customer Service Department : shippment.information@accountant.com
**PLEASE NOTE**
Once shipment has been verified and the tracking number sent to us,You will receive a “CONFIRMATION Email” from PayPal informing you that the Money has been credited.
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account.We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
PayPal verification Department
—————————————————————-
PayPal Email ID PP638
PayPal don’t do ESCROW but some people will fall for that scam…One good thing with this blog is that each scam reported here will be searchable by Google, this way if a online seller or buyer don’t feel good about a transaction, they can do a search and that scammer may popup in the result.
Watch out for John David or David John
Once I received this email I knew something sounded fishy
This was in response to a saxophone for sale.
Dear seller,
i want to buy this item cos am in need of it urgently i want to present it as a birthday gift to my pastors daughter and i also want to inform you that i want to ship the item direct to my pastor in Ibadan.i will be paying $750.00 for the item and i also pay you $150.00 for the shipping cost am really in need of it urgently that is why i want to offer you all this amount.i will be paying you through international PayPal into your PayPal account direct. and i want you to ship the item Via ***Usps Global Express Mail International Ems..you will ship the item to my client immediately you receive my payment approval from PayPal if you agree with these term,send me your full name and you PayPal email address for immediate payment…get back to me soonest with the payment details.
Just beware!
If it sounds too good to be true on, IT IS!
Regards.
I would also suggested that you don’t do business with Nigerian or Nigeria. The Nigerian are inventing new tricks each day specially when they are busted on the old ways.
One Scam they are now using is that they will hire and pay a US resident to collect goods for them which the US resident will ship to them.
If you selling or buying merchandise on classified network, I would recommend doing business local or used PayPal Payment.
This post getting a lot of traction which informed more than 400 online shopper and also help preventing them from getting scam.
This JUST happened to me! Thank you very much for this site. I should always listen to my boyfriend!!!!!!!! He was right!
I as well got contacted by these scammers. I didnt belive them, but thanks for your post which may help other people searching google who arent smart enought to realize its a scam. Here’s the email and address below so if someone searches it in future it may lead them here. Cheers.
Hi, i just want you to know that the payment has been made, and your
money has been deducted from my account. kindly get the item shipped
to the address below:
Name: Saka Saola
Address : #3 Adeoye Tiamiyu Street Anfani
City: Ibadan
State: Oyo State
Country: Nigeria
Zip Code: 23402
You will be contacted by PayPal as soon as the payment i sent has been
confirmed and approved, so i want you to get the item shipped as soon
as you receive the payment confirmation mail from PayPal, so that we
can get this transaction completed in time because the money has been
deducted from my account. do get back to me asap
Warmest Regards,
Jimmie Coy
Adewale Jethro is one of the Nigeria scammer…so beware of this
Well, This Scam is state of the art, it is elite, it is the top of the line scam and I’m impressed that I have to do a post on it. Only if these Nigerian scam arties put all that scamming energy towards something positive, I think they would make a big difference in this world.
Shipping Information
Address: Names: Adewale Jethro.
Address: No 3, Adetoye Street,Ring Road,Ibadan
State: Oyo
Country: Nigeria
Postal Code: 23402
Status: Confirmed
——————————————————————————–
This PayPal fund has been deducted from the buyer’s account and has been “APPROVED” but will not be credited to your account until the shipment reference/tracking number is sent to us for shipment verification so as to secure both the buyer and the seller. Below are the necessary information needed for you to send the tracking details to us for verification.
Send shipment details to us through this mail: (shipping.updators@post.com) and our customer care will attend to you. As soon as you send us the shipment’s tracking details for security purposes and the safety of the buyer and the seller, the money will be credited to your account.
**PLEASE NOTE**
Once the tracking number has been sent to us and verified. You will receive a “CONFIRMATION EMAIL” from PayPal informing you that the Money has been credited .
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal team
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