eBayer Louis Taylor thought he had been paid for his Blackberry when he mailed it to Nigeria. He was wrong. (Picture by Adrian Miller)
AT LEAST six islanders have fallen victim to an online scam.
They received spoof emails appearing to be from eBay’s payment service, PayPal, telling them that the buyer had paid for goods the islanders had agreed to sell.
The items were posted to Nigerian addresses before the vendors discovered that no money had been sent. Grammar School sixth former Louis Taylor sold a Blackberry for £150 and paid £40 to post it. ‘The buyer sent me an email telling me to send her an invoice, which I did,’ he said.
He then received what he thought was payment confirmation from PayPal and sent the Blackberry. It was dispatched by recorded post in the morning and Mr Taylor discovered the scam that evening.
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3 Article Comments
eBay does not care about anything other than fees. millions have been spammed because of eBay, use Paypal and you are guaranteed spam emails for every transaction! with all of their billions you’d think that spam would never occur after using their services. not.
our boycott is not spam related however we are uniting because of all of eBay and Paypal’s current policy changes. it makes spam look like a holiday card.
eBay has lost their integrity a long time ago, in life and business they are basic requirements. we can see the wizard behind the curtain, hopefully the stockholders will too.
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Great response Greta couldn’t agree with you more.
Karen
I have just received a email from someone asking for my paypal details, to make payment for a product that they where interested in.
So being a business we then forwarded them the payment instructions.
About a day after this, we then received an email which first appeared to be from the Paypal U.K division. The email stated that payment was made and had cleared into our account and to send items to an address in Nigeria.
So when we checked if it was there…clearly nothing had been deposited.
After this I decide to Google Nigeria and Scams and found the article….Thank god…I would have sent them anything anyway until the payment cleared (the nerve of them, what they think where that stupid!)At least now about them and can report it and stay clear of their emails.
Inregards to Greta’s article, yeah Ebay will not do anything about this scams.
The ones you need to see are;
Australian High Tech Crime Centre http://www.ahtcc.gov.au (Australia)
The High Tech Crime Institute http://www.gohtci.com (Global)