Posts Tagged ‘email’

Ebay PayPal Buyer from Nigeria Email Scam – Be Warned

Saturday, January 9th, 2010



Be warned, there is a scam on eBay and PayPal being operated by criminals based in Nigeria, they target people selling small electrical items either as Buy it Now or Auction on eBay, here’s what happened to me.

I recently listed my sons PSP on eBay, right at the very end of the auction a new bid was received from a UK eBay user who had no feedback and had only been a member of eBay for a day.

Within a few minutes I had an e-mail from PayPal saying the buyers payment had been made but PayPal were holding the money until I confirmed the item had been sent and provided the shipping number and details, although the e-mail display name gave the impression it was from PayPal, the actual email was sent from this address: customercarescentre@post.com, clearly nothing to do with PayPal.

The other tell tale sign something dodgy was going on were the spelling and grammar errors contained within the e-mails I received.

(more…)