Chris Brenda [email protected]

Have had these couple of emails from this scammer today for a m/bike I am selling on Gumtree, Just playing them along to waste there time at the moment. Way too many grammer errors, which had alarm bells ringing

From: Chris Brenda <[email protected]>
To: Removed personal information. ~Bubbles
Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 21:42
Subject: Aprilia RSV 1000 - £2350

I wish to let you know that I'm satisfied with the price and the conditions and i will like to inform you that am buying the item for my Family in Thornton Heath,so i will be the one responsible for the pick up and delivery stuff.kindly get back to me with your full name and address so that i can forward it to the pick up agent to calculate the pick up fees for me.

Thanks.

2nd Reply

Thank you so much. I have forwarded the address to the shipping
company so they can calculate the pick up and delivery cost for me to
make the payment. I'm sure they will contact you soon. I would like
you to know that the payment will be made via PayPal because is fast
and secured to send and received money online, All you have to send me
is your paypal email address so I can make the payment immediately.

Hope to hear back from you asap.

Welcome to ScamWarners biker and it is great you recognized this as a scam. We do not teach or support messing with scammers here. On our sister site www.419eater.com we do teach how to safely mess with scammers.

In most cases, the scammer has personal information about you which does not make messing with them from your normal email address. Thank you for being a member here.

I am selling a boiler on Gumtree and have also had a response from Chris Brenda.
I am not sure what aroused my suspicion (poor language, repeating himself and no haggling !!) but I thought I would search his name and was obviously directed to this website!
My responses from him have been a near word for word match to the entries you have posted.

Do you mind if I ask how your sale with him concluded?
Also - at the risk of sounding naive (and stupid), if this guy pays for my goods via Paypal, what are the risks to me? That he could pick up the goods and then recall the money by pretending he had not received the items?
The only information he has from me is my private hotmail address and my Paypal email address.
Is this enough information for me to be scammed ?

Thank you

Hello BigStu78 welcome to scamwarners and thanks for posting. I am glad you spotted the scam and researched it.

What you have received is a Scam Script. The scam will have you send a Paypal Invoice / paypal email address to the Scammer he in return will send you fake Paypal notifications of payment made. He will will have some very good and believable screenshots of Paypal. Yet, they are fake. The only way to prove a payment was sent is to log into Paypal directly not through any links sent. Better yet, call PayPal once again not through any links.

The scam is that the scammer wants your item, over payment or send monies to a shipper by way of Western Union.

The script would say that you have to provide MTCN number / Tracking number in order for your money to be released. That is untrue with Paypal.

Thanks for posting. Please post the header of the email and email address used this time for Chris Brenda. It would help others when they search.

Bryon

Thank you for the advice.
I shall await for his next response!
I would never have released the goods based on some vague screenshot from Paypal, as I know how to use the service. I was more concerned with the level of fraud that could be committed with the information I had already provided -which isn't much.
He apparently wants to collect it, which will be interesting!

I will keep you updated.