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Scammers, scammers, scammers...


JackyBoi

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I thought scammers were meant to be smarter nowadays? This is perhaps the most far-fetched scam attempt I've ever witnessed... To contextualize the situation, I'm selling a car, and this 'buyer' thought this would work:

 

"I was just about to pay when i had this problem with the pick up, my pick up

agent says i will need to pay for the pick up before they can schedule a

pick up time, they charged me £350 for pick up and delivery, and

payments or pick up made through them is made to their corporate

international headquarters which is in the West Africa and the

payments is made through western union money transfer, i will add the

£400 to the money i will send through paypal as soon as i have made

the payments, i will email you and let you know and please i will need

you to help me send the money to my pick up

agent HQ in the West Africa through western union money transfer, this can

be done from any post office ,there is always western union money

transfer section in most post offices...,i would have done it myself

but we cant bring

some of our personal effects

along, i am a little incapacitated.....I will appreciate your help here"

 

Or is this legit...? :D

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Coincidentally I got scammed this week by some Finnish kid on PayPal. How much you ask? $37.

 

People are actually willing to risk legal trouble for £24...

 

Needless to say I reported that as an unauthorised transaction, got his account banned and he has been reported to his local police force. Scum.

 

Oh and I got my 37 bucks back!!

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Coincidentally I got scammed this week by some Finnish kid on PayPal. How much you ask? $37.

 

People are actually willing to risk legal trouble for £24...

 

Needless to say I reported that as an unauthorised transaction, got his account banned and he has been reported to his local police force. Scum.

 

Oh and I got my 37 bucks back!!

 

He seemed like a nice, genuine guy (apart from his poor grammar), that was until he whipped out the whole West Africa thing I just had to laugh.

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