Selling my PS3, guy wants me to send it to Nigeria lol.

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This is wonderful, but clearly a scam. If they'd wanted to be more professional about it they would have...........er.............well that's for me to know.

Thing is, for $444 ASD, couldn't they just buy a new PS3? I know mine sure as hell cost less than that.

Don't string it out, don't play with these guys. There's nothing you will gain from it apart from a few laughs.

These guys are obviously scammers, and in Nigeria if you're smart enough to out-smart some fool you'll not be prosecuted.

Look, I'm the least dishonest person I know but if I wasn't I could orchestrate scams a plenty, all it takes is a bit of out-side-of-the-box thinking and you've found a way to part someone with their cash/property.

Drop it, let them get involved with some other unwitting person and mind you're own business before it bites you in the backside.
 
Begin scambaiting right now. It's really fun and keeps the lad away from any potential victims when he awaits for money from you that you are never giving to him.
 
If he is offering to use paypal then he may not be a scam. We have been wanting to sell a kart engine and any scammer who contacts us will run a mile if you mention paypal.

Its very difficult to scam using paypal. While I would still be very dubious about him, I do feel sorry for him if he is a real person who gets this all the time because he is from Nigeria.

He still however seems very strange. You shouldn't have a problem selling the item however so I probably would avoid him.
 
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lbsf1
If he is offering to use paypal then he may not be a scam. We have been wanting to sell a kart engine and any scammer who contacts us will run a mile if you mention paypal.

Its very difficult to scam using paypal. While I would still be very dubious about him, I do feel sorry for him if he is a real person who gets this all the time because he is from Nigeria.

He still however seems very strange. You shouldn't have a problem selling the item however so I probably would avoid him.
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It's so clearly a scam that it hurts though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud

There's only a million easy to find examples after a quick Google search of people that receive the exact same e-mail with only the names and items changed. It is always worded about the same, stems from "Ibadan" and asks for the same vital information.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=nigeria+paypal+scam&go=&qs=n&sk=&sc=8-11&form=QBRE <-Countless accounts of the Nigerian PayPal scam.
 
tezster
Think of it this way, what if there's an actual well-meaning, law-abiding Nigerian trying to to buy something overseas? It must suck that there's immediate suspicion that he's some type of scammer.

I'm not saying that's the case in this instance, just throwing out some food for thought.
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You know, I was thinking the same thing. It must really suck if you genuinely trying to buy something and you happen to be Nigerian or from that part of the world because its automatically treated with the utmost suspicion. However they don't seem to be helping themselves by writing stuff which sounds just like a scam.
 
lbsf1
If he is offering to use paypal then he may not be a scam. We have been wanting to sell a kart engine and any scammer who contacts us will run a mile if you mention paypal.

Its very difficult to scam using paypal. While I would still be very dubious about him, I do feel sorry for him if he is a real person who gets this all the time because he is from Nigeria.

He still however seems very strange. You shouldn't have a problem selling the item however so I probably would avoid him.
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This is what will happen via PayPal:
- Scammer sends money.
- You recieve the money and send the item.
- Scammer recieve's the item and contacts PayPal saying the item did not arrive/is damaged/not as discribed.
- Scammer gets his money back.

Just ignore him. If you go through with it (letting him send you money), you'll eventually have PayPal bugging you.
 
Kievit
This is what will happen via PayPal:
- Scammer sends money.
- You recieve the money and send the item.
- Scammer recieve's the item and contacts PayPal saying the item did not arrive/is damaged/not as discribed.
- Scammer gets his money back.
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This exact thing happened to me with a PSP I was selling on eBay. 🤬 said he never got it, PayPal refunded his money, now I'm out the cost of the PSP, the money I sold it for, AND the shipping.

Then PayPal goes and puts a hold on my account for being a "risky seller".

Screw PayPal.
 
R1600Turbo
This exact thing happened to me with a PSP I was selling on eBay. 🤬 said he never got it, PayPal refunded his money, now I'm out the cost of the PSP, the money I sold it for, AND the shipping.

Then PayPal goes and puts a hold on my account for being a "risky seller".

Screw PayPal.
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That's frustrating. You can't withdraw the money before the other party lodges the complaint? What system does PP use to verify the legitimacy of these claims?

EDIT: I also despise PayPal, and eBay recently has been stupid enough to require a PP account in order to sell things through it, despite not contacting account holders with positive outstanding balances prior. Not only have they lost a frequent customer (me), but they face legal action if I'm not refunded the full amount I deposited with them.
 
Son, we here in Scotland have terrible education. I want to send you to Nigeria to expand your knowledge in school:

nigeria_18Education.jpg


Nigeria-soldiers-in-truck-file1.jpg
 
boiltheocean
I'm fully aware of that, I'm questioning his picture choices.
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You really have to ask that? The first picture shows a heavily overcrowded classroom with extremely basic computers (note that those particular models, I believe, are only distributed to impoverished nations in an effort to improve access to modern teaching materials). The second shows a truck with a few young adults who could be in higher education but instead have been militarised. More importantly, however, it shows the lack of civility and danger present in the country that would make studying difficult, if not impossible.
 
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Too bad the OP is banned. I thought this was very funny:

wikipedia
Various groups and individuals have engaged against "419" frauds by making scammers lose their time or some amount of money. One widely propagated report of such a scam baiting involved an American who identified himself as "James T. Kirk" to a Nigerian completely unaware of the Star Trek television series.
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:lol:
 

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