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  1. 11-01-2007, 02:36 PM #1
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    Default WARNING TO ALL

    If you're selling **** on Craigslist or Ebay or wherever, and you get a buyer from Nigeria. Dont sell it to them.

    They have somehow duplicated the [email protected] email and they're able to send fake emails saying that payment has been sent and is in esgrow until shipment information is provided. They even send a fake followup email. It looks 100% legit.

    dont be fooled, make sure you contact paypal.. i almost got owned recently, it's a good thing i contacted paypal :].

    According to them Nigeria is the biggest ring of scams they're going through.
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  2. 11-01-2007, 02:40 PM #2
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    they have been pulling this scam for YEARS! they have a replica site that looks like paypal....
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    Quote Originally Posted by kayfuNk
    and is in esgrow
    Good thing I only deal with escrow. Later, QD.
    FOR MORE INFO, CLICK THE PIC!!!

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    escrow is the way to go for sure

    :hi fives QD:
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    Quote Originally Posted by thinkfast®
    escrow is the way to go for sure

    :hi fives QD:
    Later, QD.
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    man i'd love to be a scammer in nigeria lol

    scam 1 dumbass in the US and that 1000$ USD converts to 5 mansions, security gaurds, lions, college for all 18 of my kids, etc etc

    lolol when they hit, they hit BIG
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    Quote Originally Posted by RandomGuy
    man i'd love to be a scammer in nigeria lol

    scam 1 dumbass in the US and that 1000$ USD converts to 5 mansions, security gaurds, lions, college for all 18 of my kids, etc etc

    lolol when they hit, they hit BIG
    hey hasan I saw you at lil ceasars the other day tryin to buy them 26 large 1 toppings on their $5 deal, did they sell it to you?

    the manager looked pretty pissed! I thought it was for a party but this was on like a Tuesday, whats up w/ that man
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    yea....already know about this ****...but thanks for the word up...

    btw, they sometimes will say that they are in the US, but when you ask them for their address, Nigeria comes up.....then from there, they make up an excuse like they are on vacation or some ****...
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    I'd say that 99.99% of the time it's a good idea NOT to sell to anyone in Nigeria, China, Ukraine, Etc. Nothing against any of those countries. I love Ukraine. PRIVET!
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    just lettin yall know!
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    welcome back to 1995.. AOL called.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio
    welcome back to 1995.. AOL called.
    PayPal’s history is full of successes and some controversy. Learn about about PayPal’s history since it was founded in 1999.


    you mean 1999?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kayfuNk
    PayPal’s history is full of successes and some controversy. Learn about about PayPal’s history since it was founded in 1999.


    you mean 1999?


    I careless about when Paypal Was founded... I was reffering to the Nigerian scam.. **** has been around for a long ass time.

    I know ot send and request with paypal.. I dont need to know there history..

    Btw, you were like 12 or 13 when I open my paypa account..

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    yeah i had my phone for sale on ebay and i got the nigeria bite saying her name was blah blah blah but she needed it shipped to nigeria for her son in school... she wanted me to ship it then she would transfer the money once the tracking showed it had shipped... ***** had me going but i wouldn't ship it without seeing some money on my account and i never did so i never shipped it. eventually she just quit emailing me and i emailed ebay to get back my money for the listing.

    revenge on the nigerian scammers ------------> http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/index.html ::VERY FUNNY::

    CLIFF NOTES
    these guys were selling an apple powerbook and found out they were getting scammed. well he got a binder notebook and taped some keys on it and shipped it with the declared value at like $2000 dollars or something so that the duties and taxes would be ridiculous and shipped it hahahaha... the reciever HAS to pay for that **** and the scammers thought they were going to get a free powerbook and payed the $200 or so fee to get their powerbook and BAM got nothing but a notebook that said F*** YOU on the front haha. they have pictures of the whole process. they actually found people overseas who were familiar with the address at where it was shipping to, so they did reconnaissance sh*t and took pictures haha
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    LOL @ PRE-PUBESCENT KAYFUNK
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    Quote Originally Posted by clean_dodge
    revenge on the nigerian scammers ------------> http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/index.html ::VERY FUNNY::
    lmfao.....read the whole story..**** was funny....we need to do that to some nigerian scammer...
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    Quote Originally Posted by kpc2593
    lmfao.....read the whole story..**** was funny....we need to do that to some nigerian scammer...
    hellz yeah but i wanna go for declared value of 3-4000 haha, imma sell em a new macbook pro
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nittanys1
    they have been pulling this scam for YEARS! they have a replica site that looks like paypal....
    yeah they have I only do FTF transactions
    View the world through a dogs eyes, if you can't screw it or eat it, pi$$ on it and walk away.
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    i remember some guy hacked my ebay and jacked it up with 500 dollars in listing fees. got 100's of questions about fake classical cars i was "selling". but ebay being the mac they is caught it before i even noticed and refunded it all
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