New scam?
- By momoc
- General Shopping
- 19 Replies
It's definitely a scam, you did the right thing by forwarding the message to eBay and not engaging in a conversation with this scammer.
But I have to say, one of the things I could never understand is, why, just WHY do people write like this? Have they never read a book, any book at all, where they could learn how to use punctuation marks properly?![]()
When someone write's that way, English it likely their second language. eBay has had ongoing issues like this for years. Criminal organizations operating out of eBay with fake e-mail accounts. In some cases, they've taken over a legitimate ebay sellers accounts. Bumped into some operating out of Hungry and the scam used real photos of merchandise and requesting payment via Western Union. They couldn't produce the serial numbers and I checked the e-mail headers which changed each time. I turned them into eBay security.
The bad English may be deliberate. It's the same for those Nigerian prince scam emails / phishing emails.
The English is *deliberately* bad. The point is, they are trying to find people stupid enough. They know smart people will see through these. They don't care. They send a ton of these out and they are only looking for the most gullible people, and the bad English is a way to pick out only those who are the most gullible.
Some reference -
There's a reason Nigerian scammers are so obvious in their emails
It seems like everyone knows about Nigerian scams ... so why do they still exist? "Think Like A Freak" explains.
