I recently got an update from a man named Collins Bill, wanting to purchase a Play station console, this is what he wrote to me:
Thanks for getting back to me ... Am from UK and i want you to know i
am buying this item for my Daughter studying agriculture in Nigeria as
a birthday gift and am ready to offer you 115 pounds including the
shipment fees to my Daughter address, So you're hereby to let me know
if you're OK with my price and you can confirm the shipment fees...
Payment will go via bank transfer and i also attached the shipping
address and also the bank rel="nofollow">http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2672/collinsbill1...
Hi,
How are you? I really understand you but i want you to know that am
a Cristian man and i hate lie as am not here to fool you because i
have my own daughter, So you dont need to doubt about this
transaction. Moreso i want you to find the attach file it contain my
British Passport with my pics that i take now but please i want you to
keep it very well because you know that is my life and you know you
can rich me with my passport number when you get to the British
Embassy in any country so you're hereby to get back to me now with the
bank details for me to made the payment and let me know if you're OK
with my price 115 pounds including the shipment too i hope you
understand and get back to me with your bank details...
Considering the amount of people that claim to have been scammed using Quickr or other site to sell things, should i go on with this transaction? Should i trust this guy?
Answers & Comments
Verified answer
100% scam.
There is no buyer. There is only a scammer trying to steal your Playstation console.
YES, that fake passport scan is photoshopped. NO, you should NOT trust that guy.
The scammer isn't interested in your identity or bank account only in convincing you to ship your possession to him without him sending you a penny. He will continue to send urgent and harassing emails demanding that you send the item asap. Ignore this fake buyer.
The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be your "bank" saying "kindly send the tracking number and we will release the funds".
Banks do NOT send such emails, ever. Banks do NOT have escrow or money holding services like that scammer describes. Banks do NOT demand you send a tracking number before money is transferred. EVER. No exceptions.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of being the perfect buyer, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
If you google "cragislist buyer scam", "fake paypal email scam", "ebay bank escrow fraud" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near victims of this type of scam.
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