by chahlii
Sat Feb 07, 2015 8:08 pm
Hi fellow ScamWarner members. I don't know if this is the right place or not but I just needed to vent out. I've never been duped so hard in my life until this happened to me. I was selling a laptop on eBay and on the first day, I lowered my price to lower the competition. The next day I ended up getting a text from a person who was offering $100 more than what I asked for. Of course, I accepted the offer. I was told to send the user a money request on PayPal, and I did. After waiting for the money, it has been pending and still is today, I kept asking the person to send the money before I ship off the package. She told me that she did and later I got 3 emails from "Service@paypal®.com <[email protected]>" and it looked pretty legitimate to me. However, I did not realize the ® symbol...
It looked a little convincing to me. When I was selling my merchandise, I clicked the option "no international buyers" and after I read the email, I found out that the location was in Nigeria.
This is a snip from the same email, it claims that I have to send the tracking number to the specified email so that I may receive my credits. It also claimed that the money already came out of the buyer's account. Of course, I believed the email as I thought it was from the official PayPal.
And this last image was the last email I received from the fake PayPal. I waited 4 days and still nothing was on my account. I called USPS to try and intercept the package but it was too late. I was told that they could not do that as it was already on transit. The entire time I did exactly what they wanted me to do. They made me wait so that it was already too late for me to claim anything back. I called PayPal and they confirmed that nobody paid me anything. I called eBay and was told that I could not receive a refund and that in the future, at least now I know not to ship something out before receiving payment. But I was SCAMMED. What can I do about that?! How was I supposed to know that the entire time I was following the directions of a scammer? It's my first time selling something on eBay and I don't get any assurance? Other people get refunds for the most silly reasons and yet I have nothing to receive as compensation from eBay? I really hope these scammers rot in hell
. It was my mom's laptop that she did not want anymore and it was still in the condition of almost brand new. I feel stupid for being scammed the way I did. They even included my name in the email, even though most fake PayPal emails will usually say "Dear PayPal User." I hope nobody else falls for the same trick as I have. Even before I shipped the item off, the man at the post office even said Nigeria is a big fraud country... And now I found this website.
The phone number the scammer used to text me is +16233491416. If anybody could do the honors to find out what area code this number came from that would be greatly appreciated
. This person claimed the laptop was for her daughter and the address led to Nigeria, so I don't know how an international number would be texting me. 
She goes by the name "Rose Wilson." She never mentioned to me anything about Nigeria or anybody else and the person the shipment is going to goes by the name "Scott Amechi," who again, was never mentioned.
That ends my vent, I'm sorry for leaving such a long post.
It looked a little convincing to me. When I was selling my merchandise, I clicked the option "no international buyers" and after I read the email, I found out that the location was in Nigeria.
This is a snip from the same email, it claims that I have to send the tracking number to the specified email so that I may receive my credits. It also claimed that the money already came out of the buyer's account. Of course, I believed the email as I thought it was from the official PayPal.
And this last image was the last email I received from the fake PayPal. I waited 4 days and still nothing was on my account. I called USPS to try and intercept the package but it was too late. I was told that they could not do that as it was already on transit. The entire time I did exactly what they wanted me to do. They made me wait so that it was already too late for me to claim anything back. I called PayPal and they confirmed that nobody paid me anything. I called eBay and was told that I could not receive a refund and that in the future, at least now I know not to ship something out before receiving payment. But I was SCAMMED. What can I do about that?! How was I supposed to know that the entire time I was following the directions of a scammer? It's my first time selling something on eBay and I don't get any assurance? Other people get refunds for the most silly reasons and yet I have nothing to receive as compensation from eBay? I really hope these scammers rot in hell
. It was my mom's laptop that she did not want anymore and it was still in the condition of almost brand new. I feel stupid for being scammed the way I did. They even included my name in the email, even though most fake PayPal emails will usually say "Dear PayPal User." I hope nobody else falls for the same trick as I have. Even before I shipped the item off, the man at the post office even said Nigeria is a big fraud country... And now I found this website. The phone number the scammer used to text me is +16233491416. If anybody could do the honors to find out what area code this number came from that would be greatly appreciated
. This person claimed the laptop was for her daughter and the address led to Nigeria, so I don't know how an international number would be texting me. She goes by the name "Rose Wilson." She never mentioned to me anything about Nigeria or anybody else and the person the shipment is going to goes by the name "Scott Amechi," who again, was never mentioned.That ends my vent, I'm sorry for leaving such a long post.
. I guess the only good thing is that i'm not the only one in this situation although that's not a good thing at all. Thanks for posting you guys!