Marktplaats Paypal scam

Here's a fool that trusted the "nice" man who wanted to buy what we had to sell on a Dutch (Ebay-like) site.

Below a following email from the guy and also the fake paypal email;

Introduced himself with the next emailadres; Randon Morris <[email protected]

i will like to tell you that I have made the payment of €300,00 EUR to your Paypal account and you will received a payment confirmation from Paypal as soon as you receive the payment confirmation get the item ship and back to me... here is the shipping address below i paid €300,00 EUR with the shipping so kindly make the shipment and get back to me thanks please send it IN TNT/TPG POST FOR SHIPPING 6-10days

Name:Tayo Olamilokun
Address:No:5 adewale house
City:Iree
State:osun
Zipcode:231008
Country:Nigeria

so kindly get back to me immediately you made the shipment ok

And this is the Paypal mail;

This is to inform you that we have received your payment of € 300,00 EUR from Mrs Randy for an Marktplaats.nl items ( x)purchased from you via Marktplaats.nl online advert.The money has now been deducted from the buyer's account and is ready to be deposited into your paypal account. It will be debited into your PayPal([email protected]) account as soon as we receive the shipment receipt scanned copy or tracking number from you.
The shipment receipt scanned copy or tracking number is to be sent to PayPal online customer service on: ([email protected])

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PAYMENT WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE "PENDING" TAB IN YOUR ACCOUNT UNTIL YOU SEND THE SHIPMENT REFERENCE NUMBER OR RECEIPT SCANNED COPY TO US.

This is due to new policies at PayPal to protect both the buyer and the seller in the face of the growing number of fraudulent activities perpetrated via the internet. Your payment is intact. You are encouraged to complete this transaction.
Here at PayPal you can be assured that your security and safety is our topmost concern.

If you have questions about this payment for your sold item or service, please contact PayPal directly by replying to this email. Your query will be answered promptly.

We hope to hear from you soon.
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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NEVER give your password to anyone, including PayPal employees.

I'm sorry to hear you were scammed. Sadly, you are not alone.

If the item has not been delivered, contact the shipping company you used immediately to see if the shipment can be stopped. If it has, unfortunately you have very little recourse, but you should still report the crime to the authorities and to paypal. You will not get your money or your item, but the authorities need to be aware of the extent of these crimes, and Paypal needs to be aware so they can ensure their information and warnings are up to date.

Thanx for your response Dotti.

I allready took all the necessary steps to warn both Marktplaats and Paypal.
Paypal was allready aware of these false emails and it bothered me that they did not provide me with this information when i openend the account.
They are still investigating but these scammers are busy a long time now so in my opinion Paypal should have payed more attention by informing new customers upfront concerning these scammers!

However i will not report to the police because i provided my name and adress to the scammers and i do not trust the police to make me feel save if they should find out that i reported a file against them!

So the only thing for me to do is to warn others.

it's up to you of course but there's no risk. The police will just make a report for statistical reasons. They have no way of finding and dealing with an anonymous criminal in Nigeria or wherever. The scammer knows that too, and doesn't care if victims go to the police or not.

Welcome justasiam. I'm sorry to hear you were scammed. Please do consider reporting this to the police. While they aren't likely able to find this particular scammer, scams are very under-reported and one of the reasons why the scope of the problem is somewhat unknown/not receiving as much attention as it needs. If you are located in the US, please also report it to the FBI's internet crime complaint center, here: http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

Law enforcement will not give your information to the scammer, nor the fact that the crime was reported.

Our lawinforcement is not that keen on looking into these type of scams!
In many cases the police refused to take a filereport on these sort of scams because it takes up their time and they know that they can do little about it so instead they hope that the reporters get discouraged to file a report!

So i'll leave the reporting part to big companies like Paypal and Marktplaats because they are in the end more influential than a single person who is not likely to be heard. These big companies however can make a difference by combining all the false reports that they received so that the police has to look into the case because it happens on a large scale.

It's not that the police doesn't know, they just don't know how to deal with it.
In Holland we have a large Nigerian crowd in Amsterdam, they don't just operate from their homeland so it comes close and i don't want to piss of these guys because they can be dangerous!
I don't care for material things as much as for my life so again...if i see that the police deals with these people strictly and firm i will consider filing a report but as long as they let them be...i do not feel save that the law will be of good help!

Law isn't what is used to be...

Hi all!

I just want to share my bad Marktplaats experience with a Nigerian scammer. Well....I advertised for a notebook and this Adrianus Gerrit ([email protected]) person emailed to show interest. He asked me to send it to his wife as surprise gift for her birthday. After we agreed on total cost, he asked for my bankaccount details and stupid me i obliged thinking he lives in NL (Adrianus' name do sound Nederlander). So when i received his next email to say where I should send the notebook to ---> I nearly choked on my boterham when I read "Nigeria"! And that he already made payments via citibank. Simultaneously, i got this email from "citibank":
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Payment Notification
Transaction code : U593G429987628B

Dear seller,

     Citibank customer Verification Department is using this medium to remind you of the transaction between you and Adrianus Gerrit about an Marktplaats item.We are yet to receive the shipment details of the transaction and your money is still in our Account Database ready to be credited into your account once we verify the shipment information (s).

      Once again the buyers shipping address has been confirmed by the buyer and Citibank is as stated below:



Shipping Information

Address:
Name :F.O Tayo
Address :No 6 Kodesho street,Arinola bookshop.Ikeja
City :Ikeja
State: Lagos
Zip code:23401
Country:Nigeria

Address Status:
Confirmed 



BUYER'S SHIPPING OPTIONS IS AS STATED BELOW :
                          
    

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                                                    ***ATTENTION***
     The order has been CONFIRMED AND APPROVED,So you can now proceed with the shipment of the item to the buyer's shipping address. You are expected to make the shipment within 48 hours AFTER receiving this shipment reminder and get back to our Customer/Technical Dept. with the Postage Evidence for Verification.

     The Shipment Tracking number should be emailed to our customer care for VERIFICATION so that your account can be credited immediately after the shipment verification.

We embark on this measure in order to protect both parties involved in this transaction and to reduce the occurrence of Scams and Fraud within Marktplaats and Citibank Community, Feel free to contact the Bank Verification department at [email protected] for any inquiry.

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Thank you for using Citibank Auction payment Transfer!
The Citibank Auction Payment team

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Post the item first before i see the money in my bankaccount...yeah right!
We then report it to citibank (the real citibank this time) and this is their reply:

Hi,
 
Thank you for forwarding this email.
 
Firstly, please be informed that the information provided on the email regarding Citibank is incorrect and you should treat it as fraudulent.
 
Citibank has nothing to do with such SCAMS, which unfortunately are very common. With the advancements in technology today, fraudsters are equipped to copy or impersonate information, such as our Logo and contact details to trick people to believe that these emails were sent from Citibank, which again is not.
 
These fraudsters use emails as a source of communication to send this information which can be very difficult to trace.
 
If you have divulged personal information in a reply to such emails we recommend that you contact your bank. If you have suffered a financial loss then please contact the police in your area.
We fully co-operate with the authorities to help with any criminal investigations that may ensue.
 
For further information on Internet scams see points 1 and 2 on: http://www.citibank.co.uk/personal/bank ... report.htm
 
Regards,
 
Citibank Customer Services
 
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So from then on---- i receive daily reminders (via email) from scammer and fake citibank but just ignored them. Unfortunately, still...Mr Adrianus just won't let up!


"Pls can i know what is going on, i made the payment that you've been
expecting me to do, and it gets approved as it is suppose to, so the
next thing i expected you to do is to make the shipment, and since the
payment was approved and the money deducted from my bank account, i
did not hear from you to know what is going on, so kindly get back to
me or my bank (Citibank Auction Payment) with the tracking number of
the package so that they can start verification on your money and your
payment can be fully transfer into your bank account.Thanks and hope
to read back from you soonest."
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Oh dear!!!!! What the world has become???!!!

Groetjes,

P.

Welcome to Scamwarners.
Unfortunately it's now impossible to advertise on the Internet without attracting scammers. Can you post the fake Citibank email address please, although I'm sure Citibank will have had it shut down.

Hi there!

Thanks for the welcome.

This is the email addy: Citibank International Money Transfer® <[email protected]

P.

[email protected]

e-mail addresses ending "europe.com" are free and disposable.

Thank you for posting it ... anyone now searching for it will be directed here.

Alright! I just have someone trying to scam me from Nigeria. It is the same information Pammy posted, but diffrent emails, both too and from. the "Citibank email" Where the transfer come from is Citibank@transfer <[email protected]>. The person that is doing the Sending hasent sent me her email, But we have spoke on the Phone, AND have been chatting through email. What do I need to do, the see they are caught? This person has no Idea I am on to her, So is there anyway I can get her busted? Email me if you want a copy of the fake email from citibank....


Mod edit: Removed email address. DJ

Welcome here ShawnL.


The best thing to do to hurt these scammers, is to post their emails here.

The newest one tried under the name Mr.Alexo Lavale.
His email is [email protected].
Same procedure; large sum offered in exchange for shipment abroad.
Hope noone gets scammed!

[AlanJones]

Hello Shakalaka and welcome to ScamWarners.

Thanks for posting this additional email address, it will help others to avoid being scammed.