Name that Scam
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I posted an ad on craigslist to sell 2 ps2 gutiar hero guitars (I was only asking for $10) and got this reply from a woman in Nigeria:
i am so much interested in your listed on Craigslist , i want the stuff urgently for my daughter as a birthday gift i will pay you the sum of $200 USD for the shipping cost via the Usps Global Express Mail International 3-5 Days (EMS)to oversea and i also want to know how many of picese of these you have for sale i will pay you via paypal so do reply me with your paypal email as soon as possible.ThankS
How was I going to get scammed if she was putting money in my Paypal account first?
- Carl_Weathers0
She's legit. Racist.
- harlequino0
All your listed so much belong to us.
- lvl_130
welcome to the internet.
- kirshar120
Funny....
My gf and I have been looking to rent a new place and found a listing on craigslist from an Army soldier stationed in Africa with his family. Further emails uncovered that he was currently staying in a hospital in Nigeria due to a leg injury involving a bomb.
Along with all the red flags this guy's story threw up from his emails, we learned the real story when we visited the home in question and met the actual owner, looking to sell, not rent, and told us that other couples had been by with the same info from the same guy, whom she didn't know.........
- ********0
perhaps say her paypal verification limit has ran out offer to pay even more and then try to make you use one of those money transfer things they scam through
- Milan0
tell her that you just inherited $1,000,000 and are looking for someone overseas with a paypal account to transfer the money to and that there is a 10% reward.
- Arvizu0
I can't help thinking about the unfortunate people in Nigeria who really are just trying to conduct business online but can't get any retailers/customers to take them serious! "No really, I just want to sell some books—I'm not trying to scam you!"
Must be a nightmare... plus the whole political instability, corruption, inadequate infrastructure, and poor macroeconomic management thing too.
- robotron3k0
Here is a Nigerian businessman with his pet hyena
