Buying and selling

We've been sent an email from a customer who has been trying to sell his PC online. A nice chap from Nigeria has offered to purchase it for 800euro's.

From Nigeria

Dear Seller,
I am so Happy been the winning buyer of this lovely item,i am intrested in buying this item for my Son as a gift who is working with the British America tobbaco Nigeria company. I need to get it as a matter of urgency since I have promised to get the item down to him soon.So i will be so Glad if the item can be posted by Post Express for Fast Delivery.I will like to know the condition of the item.I will be
offering you EURO 800.00 for the cost of the item including shipping cost to him via Post Express .Send me your bank detail so that i can make the payment asap.

kindly get back to me asap.

Many Thanks.

Customer reply

Dear sir,

can you inform me about the delivery address so I have an idea about the shipping costs involved.

The item is in excellent working condition and is still under waranty.

Are you in Belgium, perhaps we can have a meeting during which I can show you the item ?

Brgds

Reply from Nigeria

Hello Mate,Below is the address where item should be posted to and as soon as item.

Thompson Smith
32 Abati-george avenue
Lawanson
Surulere
Lagos
23401
Nigeria.

Send me your bank detail so that i can make the payment asap.

Hope to read from you soon.

Thanks.

Our reply

Hi Thompson

Why do you need my bank details, could you not just send me a cheque?

Regards

B rgds

Reply from Nigeria

Send me your bank detail so that i can make the payment asap.

Our reply

Hi Thompson

You don't need my bank details to send me a cheque, but here they are anyway.

Name: B************

Account: 3438****

Sort code: 10-**-**

Bank: Nat West

Regards

brgds

A fake bank account

From Nigeria

Sorry for the late response,and thanks for your mail,i will like to inform you that payment has been made,and its has been approved by Nochex Bank Plc,all you have to do now is send the item before they can transfer your money to you,they made this policy due to the fact that most sellers get money from buyers and never send item,i hope you understand what am trying to say,they made the policy due
to fake seller am not and i will not say you are a fake seller,just try to understand,all you have to do is send the item and forward the tracking number to them so that they will transfer your money to you soon.

Please make sure you send the item via post Express Internaional......

Many Thanks

From Nochex

Dear B**********,

Your 800.00 payment for item from Mr Goor has been approved .. Your payment is issued and will be sent by the close of the next business day after we receive the shipment tracking number from you. We are going to send the money to your name and bank information below as soon as you have shipped the item.
Please do not send the tracking number to the Buyer. .

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Payment Details

Item Title Quantity Price Subtotal
HP pentium D 1 570.00 € 570.00 €
Postage & Packing via Express POST to b23XX:
(includes any seller packing fees) 230.00 €
Seller discounts (-) or charges (+): 0.00 €

Total: 800.00 €

If we do not hear from you as soon as expected the payment will be returned back to the buyer.. We will be awaiting you to ship the item and mail us the shipment tracking or reference number so that we can send out your payment.With this no buyer can stop payment with a false claim that there is no longer any transaction between the two of you after you might have shipped.We are you mediator,we stand between both the buyer and the seller because we have our name to protect.

Note: The links provided in the email, for customer service, contact us and FAQ's etc, are all unobtainable.

Our reply to Nochex

I've posted the parcel, what happens next?

Regards

B

Our reply to Nigeria

Dear Mr Goor

I've posted the item and look forward to the money being received.

Regards

B

This type of scam is very commonplace and doesn't always originate from Nigeria. If you're a seller, never send an item until payment has been received first. Although you may feel the transaction is safe, due to the fact that you have the sellers address, it isn't.

If we were to send this PC to Nigeria, we would never receive the money, we would never see the PC again and wouldn't be able to trace the buyer.

If in doubt, contact Scambusters@uk.tiscali.com before entering into any type of dubious online transaction.

Reply from Nigeria

Hello Mate,

Thanks for the pacy response, i will like to let you know that your money is safe nadsecured with Nochex. Below is the address where item should be posted to and as soon as item has been shipped,kindly email the tracking number to nochex ok.

Our reply

Hello matey

Shipping number? What is a shipping number? I posted the PC via first class post at my local post office and don't have a shipping number.

I do have a library card with a number on it, but I'm not sure if that's of any use?

Regards

B

Reply from Nigeria

As soon as you have sent the item get back to us with the shipment tracking number so that your money can be credited into your account.

Reply from Nochex

You are always welcome to our service,regarding the last e-mail you sent to us,We will like to inform you that as soon as you have sent the item and get back to us with the shipment tracking number your money will be credited into your account.We made the policy of sellers should send out item before money goes into the sellers acount because most sellers will get money from buyers and will not send out the item,We have encountered so many situations like that so we will not allow that to happen to us again.

We hope you understand what we are trying to say.

As soon as you have sent the item get back to us with the shipment tracking number so that your money can be credited into your account.

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