Ebay "warning"

[TWR]

I put some furniture on EBay for the sum of £130 on Sat, got an email from this person called "Jasmin Morgan" there was something about the wording that give me "WARNING BELLS" the person would pay me the asking price ASAP, Asked for me Paypal email & payment, I WAS going to contact paypal this morning with this unusal wriiten Email, & as you may have guessed, "FRAUD" If I am allowed to warn persons out there with this persons Email, I will soon find out if I'm not, so here it is.

[email protected] I checked this email out & it was genuine by from " Nigeria.

"BE WARNED EBAYERS"

[factor-fiction]

Did you get an email directly to your email account? If so, I'm not sure how he got it.
Or was it a message sent to you via ebay which you read on your ebay account?

[EDDIE51]

If you have the same email for paypal as for normal use all he had to do was click on 'pay now' and he would get your paypal email address to make the payment.
then just use the email address to send a message simple!

[boxtops]

Report it to eBay and PayPal straight away, TWR - [email protected]

They need to know if people are spamming your accounts.

In any case, what this person was doing would have been against eBay rules, asking to pay you direct off eBay - that could have got you into trouble with eBay (if you'd not been alert to the scam).

Out of interest, how could you tell that the gmail account came from Nigeria?

[TWR]

Already been done Boxy, My email is my account, I've checked no payment, OH forgot to say, they said that THEY WOULD PAY the Shipping costs, very good of them.

[TWR]

Again Boxy, I ask what area they are from, this person sent FULL DETAILS of her so-called address.

[jake-the-peg]

Chewn


It's spam - they're spelling is to try to evade junk mail filters.

The person you're getting it from may even have had malware infect their computer and that is what is sending the e-mails

Chances are too there's a web link in that mail and visiting the web page will most likely run an exploit that will try to infect your computer if it's not well patched.

[TWR]

To Add,

Their so-called address

J.M.Boyle, 3 Western Street, Ibadan, Oyo State, 23402, Nigeria

Have a nice day you lot.

[Peter Pedant]

thanks
I still use cheques but there is something wrong with me

[wolf63]

Peter - is that a leading question?