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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/13/2006, 8:28 AM
AAAHHHH HA HA HA HA, I've been getting offer after offer from africa that want's to buy a PSP for their son for a graduation gift $400, $500, you name it. LOL, scammers, they're so funny, what makes them think that I would ever be that gullable
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/13/2006, 10:04 AM
is that why you put the (fraud) in your subjet?

ditch the reserve.... I'll take it for $25. :)
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/13/2006, 10:49 AM
yea, that's why i put the Fraud on the subject line. I just thought it was too funny, but I didn't want to go posting several times on the forums here about my PSP for sale on ebay. Reserve is pretty modest it's only at 120, so if it goes poorly you can pick it up at a quite a steal.

some schmuck is trying to sell the same thing with a new PSP for 289 - LOL!!!

Anyway, if it doesn't go above the reserve on the sale and you want it, let me know I'll just sell it outright to you.

Dave
corug7 wrote on 10/13/2006, 11:28 AM
Dave,

If you give me your PSP, I'll send you the fax I got from Professor Dr. Mumbojumbo, Secretary of the Interior of Defense of the First Bank of Nigeria. My 13.7 million US dollar inheritance is YOURS. Just wire him 17,486 for processing fees (you'll get it all back).

Corey
riredale wrote on 10/13/2006, 5:24 PM
Just last week I got this in my email:

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Dear PayPal Member,

This email confirms that you have paid LWP ELECTRONICS (sales@lwpelectronics.com) $274.99 USD using PayPal.

This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL LWPELECTRONICS*".


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PayPal Shopping Cart Contents

Item Name: BRAND NEW NOKIA 6600 CELL PHONE
Quantity: 1

Total: $274.99 USD



Cart Subtotal: $254.99 USD
Shipping Charge: $20.00 USD
Cart Total: $274.99 USD

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The point is that I never bought any camera. The actual email look completely legit and had links to go to to verify and/or dispute the purchase. The linked sites also looked completely legitimate, and--of course--required that I give them my password to get in to dispute the sale. So anyone getting this email and disputing the purchase would be giving someone their PayPal password.

I knew that I had not purchased the camera and paid for it because I logged into PayPay separately from the email message, and, sure enough,there was no record of any camera purchase.

So I guess the moral of the story is to never use the links provided on an email, if it involves money or passwords.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/13/2006, 6:09 PM
always log in to your e-bay/paypal to confirm if you need to. I do. Hove your mouse over the link. They're getting good, but they ALWAYS use bad links.
riredale wrote on 10/13/2006, 6:26 PM
Ah, but remember that even the website addresses look completely legitimate. I posted last year about getting a notice from Bank of the West (a regional bank here in the Pacific NW) about being locked out "for security reasons, please verify a few things" kind of thing. First tipoff?--I don't have an account with them.

The website was www.bankoffhewest.com. The legit website is www.bankofthewest.com. See any difference?

The fake website address is: www.bank off he west.com.
The real website address Is: www.bank of the west.com. Pretty clever, I thought.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/13/2006, 7:29 PM
i was going to say "the first one has to many "f"'s" but you already did. :)

a really good way to see "evil" links is that a lot of times they have much more garbage after the website then normal. IE it wouldn't just be "paypal.com" it would be "paypal.com/blah/?blah.blah.blah???.blah"
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/13/2006, 7:31 PM
i can't get it for what you want right now... I just pre-ordered a Wii @ GameStop for christmas (hopefully i'll get one before then. The sold all their preorders within the first few minutes of ordering. I got a "reserved" one). a PSP would be fun to play with though. It wouldn't replace the DS for games but I'd probley put my own videos on it.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/13/2006, 9:09 PM
OP!!, Looks like you've been OUT BID!!! MUAAHHAAHAAHAAHAA!! :P

Better luck next time :D

Dave
goshep wrote on 10/13/2006, 10:00 PM
At one point I had a ready-to-use paypal scamming kit that I stole right off some losers website. I received the usual paypal phishing email but traced back the ip to the culprits host directory. There for all the world to access was a folder full of phony paypal pages, complete with all the usual bells and whistles. Does anyone know a way to write to these directories? I'd love to leave a calling card for the host!