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fubar42o · 05-09-2008, 07:38 AM

Hehe, I almost learned the hard way a long time ago. When I had first set up an eBay account a couple of years ago, I put my first PSP up for acution. I got the same kind of message saying that if I would end the auction now, they would pay $800 for my modded PSP plus another $150 or so for shipping. I had no idea what a West African Scammer was, and so I had actually agreed to send it to him/her. The person offered to send the payment via MoneyGram. I have never heard of Moneygram so I Googled it and the first two or three pages of search-returns were all about how these scammers used fake MoneyGram accounts/checks to get people from the UK and US to send these West Africans their expensive electronics. It was a very good thing that I had Googled it because I was going to ship my PSP out to them the very next day. I reported the scammer to ebay Security and left a negative comment. The scammer in turn left me a negative comment saying that he had sent me $1000 (which he didn't) and never got the item. It was a big hassle, but luckily after a couple of weeks, ebay banned the user and removed all of the feedback that he/she had left.

In conclusion, just as mentioned beforehand by other people; if it's too good to be true, guess what?

05-09-2008, 07:38 AM	#9 (permalink)
fubar42o Senior Member PSP Elite Hacker Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fresno, Ca (USA) Posts: 1,252 Firmware Installed: Sold my PSP =[	Scam ?? Need quick answer! Hehe, I almost learned the hard way a long time ago. When I had first set up an eBay account a couple of years ago, I put my first PSP up for acution. I got the same kind of message saying that if I would end the auction now, they would pay $800 for my modded PSP plus another $150 or so for shipping. I had no idea what a West African Scammer was, and so I had actually agreed to send it to him/her. The person offered to send the payment via MoneyGram. I have never heard of Moneygram so I Googled it and the first two or three pages of search-returns were all about how these scammers used fake MoneyGram accounts/checks to get people from the UK and US to send these West Africans their expensive electronics. It was a very good thing that I had Googled it because I was going to ship my PSP out to them the very next day. I reported the scammer to ebay Security and left a negative comment. The scammer in turn left me a negative comment saying that he had sent me $1000 (which he didn't) and never got the item. It was a big hassle, but luckily after a couple of weeks, ebay banned the user and removed all of the feedback that he/she had left. In conclusion, just as mentioned beforehand by other people; if it's too good to be true, guess what? __________________ 10k Gamerpoints Achieved 8/16/08 Last edited by fubar42o : 05-09-2008 at 07:48 AM.