Someone tried to pull a scam on me on eBay. The buyer claimed to be from the UK and want to pay me with bill pay. He stated that he would send shipping labels from his Fed Ex account to cover shipping charges. I received an email from what appeared to be billpay saying that I would receive a money order for the price of the item and that I could proceed with shipping. As if I would ship a Computer worth $1000 before I had the money in my possession. I then noticed some spelling errors in the email and decided to look into this a bit more. The return email address was billpayorders.com instead of billpay.com. I did a whois lookup on billpayorders.com and found that this domain wasn't registered to billpay or Western Union. I then received an email from the buyer with fed ex shipping labels attached but was addressed to a Nigeria address. I did some Google searches and found this to be a known scam and reported this to billpay.com and eBay. I then replied to this guy saying I new what he was up to and the proof I had. I told him I hope he is caught and rots in jail. He replied with this:
"Thanks dude...guess you realy smart..bravo..but i cannot get caught nanananananannaa"

What sucks is now I have to relist the item and go through the hassle of getting eBay to relist the computer free of charge.

The bad thing is this person probably will never get caught and will screw some honest people that don't know any better.

Just had to vent a bit...this really pissed me off.

 

that's sux man. i've already got ripped from ebay. bidded on a trango shif kit and it was already used when i got it...

 

I get that sh*t every time i list somthing on C'slist too.
The most irritating part about it is he's right!

I can not believe people fall for that scam, and others like it.

 

Someone hit "Buy It Now" on one of my items and it turned out to be a 'Nigeria scam' like yours. He registered a Yahoo email address the same day he purchased my item, and then I got an email from 'PayPal' saying that he paid for the item, but....well, here is what it said:

Then he sent me this email:

Thanks goodness he was willing to help me with all my stress!

Same BS for me, having to relist. Sometimes I wonder if EBay allows this because they get more listing fees this way.

 

IM a dumbass that would get screwed on somethin glike that I am not internet savvy to look up domains and all that when I sell soemthing Ill be sure and list it up here to make sure its legit. Naked that email he sent is funny though I wouldnt send nothin till I got the money sittin in my bank account

 

something's got to be done... i get prank emails from false paypal and false ebay ALL THE TIME... i'm going to estimate probably 2 from each per day.

A lot of times it will say "Paypal Account Limited Access" or "Ebay account restricted"

I know this isnt the same situation as you... but i'm glad you caught it before you started to pay him for it. ALWAYS check that email address... you can just put your cursor over the link and at the bottom of your IE explorer the web address will come up and its usually an IP address followed by "paypal.com"... or a weird looking address with paypal somewhere in the wording