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Just got this email from someone on eBay regarding a frame I'm selling - it's not just me is it? This is gonna end in a "please can you post to my doctor friend in Nigeria?".
Am I being overly cautios?
The email:-
Thanks for the quick response, can you assure me it's in good condition ??
,I need you to understand that I am willing and ready to purchase it right
away, put it off the AD site, consider me as your favorite buyer, I'm
seriously interested in buying this and due to the nature of my work,phone
calls making and visiting of website are restricted but i squeezed out time
to check this advert and send you an email regarding it.i would be glad to
pay for it as soon as possible though i will not be available to come for
an inspection due to my tight schedule.Kindly get back to me with the
following questions below:
1) What is the condition?
2) Are you the Owner?
3) Pick up Location?
4) Your PayPal Email ID to effect the payment
5) How much is your buy it now price
I would be glad to make the payment immediately through PayPal so kindly
get back to me with your PayPal ID. You need not to worry yourself about
title transfer and shipment,i will instruct the shipping company to handle
that therefore in order to complete the transaction do get back to me with
your PayPal ID and total cost so that I can make the payment asap. I will
be waiting for your reply!
Thanks and God bless
Dodgy as a dodgy thing in Dodge City.
Personally, I'd be ignoring that. If he wants it hes needs to work with the eBay way of doing things or buy from elsewhere
http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=44851
Wording seem familiar ? 😉 (see second post)
Delete or forward to ebay scam department.
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/weird-ebay-scam-i-cannot-work-out
Thanks for the quick response, can you
assure me it's in good condition ??
,I need you to understand that I am
willing and ready to purchase it right
away, put it off the AD site, consider me
as your favorite buyer, I'm seriously interested in buying this and
due to the nature of my work,phone calls making and visiting of
website are restricted but i squeezed out time to check this advert
and send you an email regarding it.i would be glad to pay for it as
soon as possible though i will not be available to come for an
inspection due to my tight schedule. Kindly get back to me with the
following questions below:
1) What is the condition?
2) Are you the Owner?
3) Pick up Location?
4) Your PayPal Email ID to effect the payment
5) How much is your buy it now price
I would be glad to make the payment
immediately through PayPal so kindly
get back to me with your PayPal ID. You
need not to worry yourself about
title transfer and shipment,i will instruct the shipping company to
handle that therefore in order to complete the transaction do get back
to me with your PayPal ID and total cost so that I can make the
payment asap. I will
be waiting for your reply!
Thanks and God bless
Thanks and God bless
Nope.
Sounds like Kobayashi from The Usual Suspects wants to buy your bike, think he died though, could be a scam.
If it's not otherwise obvious (which I think this one is as the OP rightly sniffed out), a clue on a lot of these is no specific reference to what it is you're selling - all references are to "it" - this email would be the same whether you're selling scented candles, a bike frame or a bag of secondhand porn mags
I'll take the porn mags, please send them to my doctor friend in Nigeria, thanks.
Thought so. Just to add they did state the item in the email title.
I've sent a lovely reply back.
Cheers
This crops up every week. Surely you know it's dodgy.
I've never seen it before. Tend to not use eBay so I never open the threads.
Scam.
Often got these responses from ads id placed on the gorillafirm website and others.