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Help me please? is this an ebay scam?

  • alrite, well i've never used my tmobile sidekick so i figured i'd put it up on EBAY starting at $75 to see if it gets any bidders. Today I got an email from someone who saw it.. tell me if this sounds fishy: Hello Seller, I saw your item listed on Ebay and I am interested in buying it for my son who studies abroad as his birthday gift.Due to the matter of urgency,I am willing to offer you the sum of $500 for the cost of the item and shipping cuz this item will be shipped directly from you to my son's address via INTERNATIONAL EXPRESS MAIL(EMS).For Payment purpose:Just log on to www.PayPal.com and sign up with them and get back to me with your PayPal email.PayPal is a method of payment used by both buyers and sellers make and receive payments on auction and classified sites.PayPal is 100% free,safe,secure and reliable.Kindly get back at me asap with the present condition of this item and your PayPal email so that i can proceed to make payments.You can as well add me to your yahoo messenger so we can chat.Hope you are a honest and reliable seller. Take care and hope to hear back from you soonest Thanks Cole Anderson now.....i dont know too much about paypal so I don't really know if this guy has something in mind and i want to make sure w.e i do is safe, ya know?..... idk.. any thoughts/opinions are welcomed.. tell me what u think I spoke to him earlier, he sayss: cole.anderson98: I offered you that amount cuz I dont know the exact amount for the shipping i asked where it will be shipped to and he says: cole.anderson98: My son is in Nigeria for his Agricultural Research project practical at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria(CRIN) so he cah have more lnowledge of the local farming

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    SOUNDS SUSPICIOUS. PAy pay is a real website and people usually do business through their. Just make sure you don't give him any information about your account like your password. But this does seem very suspicious. I've never knew people did that on ebay. If you feel weird about it then don't do it. He probably wants you to send the item and pay for it with fake money and then next thing you know when you try to get the money its gone or never existed. GOOD EYE! Plus I love how he uses the son excuse and uses reverse psychology talking about he "hopes your an honest and reliable buyer". Means I'm not.

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Yes it is a scam.

cutiehoney242

SCAM SCAM SCAM Anyone offering to pay more for anything and you send money back will end up costing you that total amount! They send a counterfeit check, you sen the real money, a month or so later their check is returned and the bank holds you responsible for all of it.

knowitall

its a scam. when you sell it to them, they pay via paypal. but they can break into your paypal and get your credit card numbers. DONT DO IT!!!!

The Situation

DONT SELL IT THEY ARE SCAMMING YOU I LOST MY IPOD BECAUSE I SOLD IT TO A NIGERIAN DONT DO IT

alex

That is definitly a scam. My friend had the same thing with his laptop, he was offered 300 for shipping. The shipping cost him 97, and guess what he lost his laptop and never got his money.

Fuzzy Sixx

I'm afraid so. If the email came from an unknown sender, and you did not place a bid, do NOT fall for it.

CrazyChick13

Sounds funny to me. Just remember the old saying: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Trav

I don't see how you can go wrong in all this (get scammed if you know what I mean) but the whole thing just sounds so so so fishy. idk Don't you have a paypal account? ebay makes you have one these days doesn't it? I know I had to make one when i was selling some dvds EDIT* You can pay for things via paypal using an ECheque, it's like a regular cheque but on thje internet, even if they do pay like this you don't send the item unless the money clears

L

Yes a scam - and a very common one these days. Don't even think about it.

Judy

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