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is there a reverse Nigerian scam? there is a woman who is very anxious to buy my last two phones (what she believes to be my only two phones)

Posted by Danger Girl (aka Andie) Oct 22 '08, 15:19

from Craigslist.

she wants to add $150 shipping.

i emailed her and said 'they are locked to rogers, if i ship them somewhere overseas, they should be unlocked first. and, i'm sure i can ship them cheaper than that!'

her reply was basically (but with very broken english/bad spelling) "my son is in Nigeria. i need these very fast. that is why i offer to pay. you give me your paypal and i pay you right now."

wtf?

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I would suspect she will "paypal you the funds", you'll mail her the phones and paypal will inform you in a couple of days that... - David Oct 22, 15:26 9
- You have to have cleared funds in your Paypal account before you can pay anybody. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 22, 15:43 6
  - Unless they have changed something recently, this is not the case. -- nm - David Oct 22, 15:45 5
    - It is marked as payment pending until it isn't. -- nm - Spawn Oct 22, 15:49
    - I've had to wait many times to pay on an ebay auction until I had money transferred into my account. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 22, 15:49 3
      - I've had a person "pay" for an auction using a "check" that later wasn't authorized. - David Oct 22, 15:50 2
        
        Hmmm... maybe it's different cause I usually just transfer from my checking account, never do the "check" thing. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 22, 15:54 1
        
        Right, I do it straight from the bank account as well but some folks use the check thing. -- nm - David Oct 22, 16:04
- yeah, i've told her that won't work. -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 22, 15:28 1
  - Isn't it strange how many Nigerians traffic Craigslist? How do they get anything done between all the online purchase attempts? -- nm - David Oct 22, 15:38
can you like recall a payment on paypal? - M Oct 22, 15:26 1
- You can pay with a check... - David Oct 22, 15:28
If she's in email contact with you, doesn't she have what she needs to paypay pay you? -- nm - sheba Oct 22, 15:22 4
- well, she has no idea what email address my paypal is set up to (it's not the one she has.) and i haven't agreed to sell her anything. -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 22, 15:23 3
  - I think paypal can send funds to any email address -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 15:33
  - Ah. It sounds odd anyway. I think I'd be afraid she was a hacker. -- nm - sheba Oct 22, 15:25 1
    - oh, i've already vetoed her, i was just puzzled. -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 22, 15:27
*sends to spam folder*. I always feel so weird selling crap on craigslist. I don't trust anyone. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 15:21 2
- it's my first time. and i've sold 2 today to perfectly nice people (who i think were ALSO nervous till we spoke.) - Danger Girl Oct 22, 15:23 1
  - Word. (I got an awesome cat tree on craigslist/usedvictoria a while back, and the people were super-generous with their time) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 15:29

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