Laptop buyer scam

[mztalkativey2k]

What is the name of your state? California

I sell my laptop online and i receive this email from a buyer. I don't know if this is scam or not because it's involed with shipping and western union money order payment. Please help me out...tell me weather or not should i sell my laptop.

hello
my name is janet and i reside in the uk.i am a chartered accountant
if you may know.i am interested
in your product {laptop} because i want to send it
to my nephew in africa as alittle vals gift and i want to buyit.so
i will like to know if you will be able to accept

money order for paymentand if you do i will like you to mail me back and let me know the total amount i am to pay
and i will also like you to send your contact address to
me through e mail so that i can come and pick up the
item in your address through my fedex account once the
payment has been approved by western union bid pay money
order.western union bid pay money order is safe and easy
to cash like any other means of pay mentlike pay pall and
others and you dont have to have an account with western
union bid pay money order before you can get your money.
your money will be sent to your address within 3-5
working or busines dayafter you have receive the approval
from wetern union bid pay money order
please do mail me back or reply so that i can know if you
are accepting my proposal or not, please mail me back so
that i can know if i should proceed with the payment or
not.bye fornow and hope to hear fromyou soon and please dont
forget to tell me the total amount of money iam to pay
for the item in your reply
i dont think you have to reply me if you are not satisfy with my
proposal

yours faithfull
janet dickson

I receive another email that look like this from another buyer, and here it is...

Hey Seller,

Good day to you,I saw your items diplayed on this site which attracted my imagination just like the same item I have been instructed to get across to my son that has just graduated and ready to begin his life in his own domain.I will like to know if you can ship this items to Africa ,but I really want this items to get to him before his birthday that's coming up in 2 weeks time.I will be making the payment through bidpay coz I have an account with them simply because of their newly introduced measure of their security for both buyers amd sellers.I will need ur name,address and phone number in order to make the payment asap.Lastly,I will be creating the shipment through my company's fedex account while I will only send you the shipping label which you will print out and paste on the package before droping it into any fedex delivery box or at any fedex office in your area,even if they aren't in the office,you can drop it in the front of their office once you have pasted the shipping label on it,they will pick it up.I will be expecting ur name,address and phone number asap.

Thanks and God bless.


and another one that look alike because they all want me to send my laptop to AFRICA, and here is how it goes....

"""Hello seller,
How is business? I hope all is going on smoothly. I am Steve Metton
from USA and i have interest in this item and i will like to
purchase for just olny One of it, I will like the immediate payment
of your item because i will like to present the item to my family
in West Africa,so i will be paying through money order via Western
Union Bidpay and once the payment has been approved i will schedule
a pickup myself through my own fedex account which means i will not
include the shipping money, so pls get back to me with your full
name and mailling address where the money is to be send to and let
me know the total cost for the Two item, let me know if i can
proceed with the payment as soon as possible.Thanks""""
Kind regards,
Steve"""""



How come there are three different buyers send me the same or almost alike email. I thought it was kind of strange, and so i did lots of research; i found out this website and i hope you guys can help me with this issue. thanks...

 

[MinCA]

Someone needs to slap you upside the head. These are SCAMS.

 

[mztalkativey2k]

laptop buyer scam

Thanks for the advice...but you're being kinda harsh MINCA.....i thought it was scam but i just need some advice...

 

[MinCA]

Not harsh. Scams are all over these days. You aleady though they were scams. If you think it's a scam, it is. That's common knowledge these days.

 

[Fat Tony]

NOw, I thought I was up on all the scams, but I never seen this one. Could someone explain to me what the scam is here? They want to send a money order to pay for a laptop. Wait 10 days for the money order to clear, then send the merchandise. Isnt that pretty much standard OP for e-bay anyway? Im not disagreeing here, Im just naive to this one. Could someone please explain?

 

[HomeGuru]

NOw, I thought I was up on all the scams, but I never seen this one. Could someone explain to me what the scam is here? They want to send a money order to pay for a laptop. Wait 10 days for the money order to clear, then send the merchandise. Isnt that pretty much standard OP for e-bay anyway? Im not disagreeing here, Im just naive to this one. Could someone please explain?

**A: what do you need explained? How about I send my money order 6 months ago and still have not gotten my laptop yet.

 

[Fat Tony]

what? If you are selling something, and the buyer pays by money order, isnt it pretty much standard procedure to wait 10 days for it to clear before shipping?

 

[JETX]

I just recently posted a laptop computer for sale on a well-known internet auction site. Within a few hours, I received the following emails:

"Dear Seller, Regarding your advert you placed on eBay, which I found it very interesting and I?m ready to buy it from you once you make up your mind to sell it for me. I?m willing to make an offer US$ 1400.00 for: (description omitted by me to protect ad). I want you to get back to me if this offer is okay with you, while You also provide me the cost of the shipment through USPS Global Express mail service 3-5days , because the package will be shipped to me here in Nigeria. I?m ready to make a provision for your payment once you are okay with my offer. I will be happy to make my payment to you by western Union Bid Pay Money Order, Kindly reply today as I hope to have a longer lasting business Relationship with you"
(I might add that the $1400 offered was about three times my 'buy it now' price!!)

and
"Hello, My name is Jesse. Please call me at home at 602.XXX.XXXX. I want to click buy it now, but am waiting on your response to do so. I just sold my laptop, and I ship a lot of things through USPS. I would like to pay you with Western Union Money Transfer, because I don't like pay pal. After doing so, I would like to you place the laptop in a USPS Flat Rate Priority Box. Their are 2 sizes, and their is one that will fit the laptop and all the accesories perfectly. It costs 7.88 to send, and it will arrive in 2 days guaranteed. Good deal huh? Please give me a call as soon as you recieve this and I will click buy it now. Thank you very much, (Name) 602.XXX.XXXX"

Of course, I recognized these as scams. My response to both of them was... send me the money first. Needless to say, I haven't heard back from either of them.
Don't you just love these scammers??

 

[dananjo1]

scam

when there is a scam there is an FBI web site to complain to.
www.IC3.gov I hope this helps dan
p. s. I found out the hard way not to sell or buy anything from NIGERIA. i just got scamed for $1900.00 but with a
lot of phone calls to fedex and e-mail to the nigerian embasy
and to the president of the state of Lagos i think that they
caught the package before it got thru to steve metton.