I just love phishing!

[Wyldkat]

Selling my bike through trade it and got this email just now - seems legit though

Thanks for the email, do let me know how much you are willing to sell
to me and you need to assure that it is in perfect condition and i
would love to see any pictures if you have. I will be paying with my
paypal account which is the safest online payment mode. So please do
reply me asap with your paypal account or send me a payment request
from your paypal account so i can effect payment to you rightaway. You
can easily open an account with paypal if you don't have one at
www.paypal.co.uk. its safe, simple and reliable also do get back to me
so we can arrange for pick up as i will like it to be picked by my
pick up agent, so no shipping included. I await your reply. Hope to
hear from you soon


Thanks

Dicks!
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Oldie - 1987 Suzuki GP100 SOLD!
Current (as of 12/7/12) 2001 Honda Varadero 125

[Wave2k]

p.s can you ship to Nigeria ?
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Ducati 1299 Panigale
2009 Corvette C6 z51
RS125->CBR400->RXS100->GSXR750K2->Ducati749S->CBR600RR5->TL1000R->DRz400->RSVR1000->Honda VTR SP1->CBR400->GSXR1000K6->Honda H100->CBR600RR3->Ducati1299

[-bandit]

What's that long number on that plastic card of yours?

[Knightsy]

Yep. Legit indeed. There's so many scammers out there, cunts use every opportunity to rip you off.
Can you contact them back to set up a meeting with that "agent" with the location being a police station?
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09' Versys 650 | 07' FJR1300A

[bikertomm]

Meh, fuck it, reply saying your interested for the lolz

Then tell them you hope they all die.
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07' Honda Hornet now full powaah! My guide on performing an oil change!

[Ayrton]

I love how he keeps mentioning how safe paypal is to use

[anthony_r6]

Note to Nigerian Scammers : Find a Fluent English-Speaking Person and ask them to right a realistic "I'm interested in your bike" letter, plus a couple of other possible responses. Get a crib sheet and go from there, you'll have much more luck.
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Ted : "Maybe he's agoraphobic."
Dougal : "Jack scared of fighting? I don't think so, Ted."

[jonna]

Reply with a link to something truly vile, you're only limited by your imagination!

[kernow24]

[jonna]

Reply with a link to something truly vile, you're only limited by your imagination!

[tbourner]

Reply telling him you only accept cash or Moneybookers, and "You can easily open an account with moneybookers if you don't have one at www.moneybookers.com. its safe, simple and reliable also do get back to me so we can arrange for pick up"
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Trev, now a biker?
Looking for first big bike.

[the_quick]

Had same type of emails, 2 of them.

Both type I work on a boat somewhere in middle of ocean and agent going to collect, after I pay you with paypal - yeah right.

I replay in proper fashion - but they did not respond
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Bandit GSF600 '00

[anthony_r6]

[yuri2085]

Only got 3 reponses to my autotrader ad. One was obvious scammer, the second one I wasn't sure until a 3rd sent me the exact same stock response Does nobody want my bike!

[Derivative]

I had a fun one today.

[Knightsy]

[JonnyFoxtrot]

Call me ignorant but what's to stop you (and I'm talking in general here not particuarly for this incident) accepting the paypal money, and then letting the funds clear and surely there's no way for them to get the money back? Is paypal not safe like that anymore? Or is something going completely over my head? Probably
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'89 Honda NS125F (SOLD) -> '92 Suzuki GS500E (SOLD) -> '03 Kawasaki ZX6R B1H (SOLD) -> '96 VFR 750 RC36 (SOLD) -> '02 Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird

[anthony_r6]

[colicabcadam]

[tbourner]

It's easier than that, they just claim they didn't receive the goods and PayPal freeze your account, pay them the money back and then withdraw the amount from any of your secondary sources. They then sell your bike.
The trick is to be far enough away that when the appeals have all been dealt with (6 months to a year if you're lucky) PayPal can't find you to get the money that the seller is rightfully due. Which is why so many people now say they won't deal with people on eBay with less than xx feedback, and they now subsequently do dozens of tiny purchases (with their accomplices) to get feedback before pulling the scam.

Of course it could be the old fake account stuff but people were getting wise to that, so they do tend to be going for actually BUYING the item, then claiming their money back through eBays stupid buyer protection policies.
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Trev, now a biker?
Looking for first big bike.

[ruck bodgers]

every time i see some thing like this . the aids and one pound a month advert campaigns have less of an effect on me .

that tv show was on today about the airport security and immigration officers they were hauling out packet after packet of forged cheques ,drafts , cashier ones and all sorts that amounted to over 1 million euros all being sent to an address in the uk from africa .
they said its a regular thing for them and find themselves having to go through them every other day .
its a good job there thick as shit or they might just get away with it more often .
one of the cheques was made out for 10 million u.s dollars lol and to authenticate its legitamecy they had sent along with it a badly printed t shirt as a supposed gift that said on it something like "CRUDE OIL corporation lol there was also a large consignment of fake africans passports over 200 passports in 1 small shipment
. i cant really imagine a stupid african ,nigerian ,somalian scammer on anything other than a blue and white c90 crashing into a old lady and riding off after having pillaged her handbag . lets hope they catch aids