scam email addresses

patrickm · Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 2 Location: EDINBURGH

hi i thought i would leave these scam email addresses i have receved eg send item to my son/daughter or some kind of Relative in Africa or Nigeria with ending i will be paying you via Paypal or Nochex postal money order.

shannon.bethel556@yahoo.co.uk
amandawilliamson24@yahoo.co.uk
nina_fred@yahoo.com
all of the above have sent me these kind of scam messages

Mike check · Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 4

I am seriously losing all confidence in gumtree. It is really starting to piss me off AND put me off from using or even recommending gumtree to a friend.

here are 3 i have just received

geomiller@operamail.com

Thanks for your respond. I want the item ship to my Son in Africa .Am out of you UK , to Washington on a business trip and i can't makeit available to he . I wiil love you to give me the cost of shipping. My terms of payment is through Pay Pal or Nochex Postal Order.
Love to hear back from you ASAP.

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Shannon Bethel (shannon.bethel556@yahoo.co.uk)

I am buying this item for my Relative in West Africa, i will be offering you £410 including the postage cost and i will be paying you via Paypal or Nochex postal money order.

Thanks,Shannon.

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Diego John (j.diego440@yahoo.com)

Thanks for your quick response,i will want you to kindly get back to me with your item final asking price including the postage via Royal Mail International Signed For the item, to my friend who has just been posted to Africa (Nigeria) on a training course as am on leave to Spain soon and won't be able to receive the item here in UK... do get back to me with the total cost and your paypal e-mail so i can make payment straight away.

Here it is my friend details to post the item for him...

Name: Mustapha Olaleye
Address: Block A Flat 5B Akerele Extension Shitta,
City: surulere,
State: Lagos 23401
Country: Nigeria.

You can also ring me on phone my # is 7024010318
Thanks you for your help and support.
God Bless You.
John.

patrickm · Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 2 Location: EDINBURGH

lol koks like that shannon guy is getting about
here is another for the list
peter.skull28@live.com

Mike check · Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 4

here is another i got this morning
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Hiya,thanks for your swift response about this item, i'm purchasing it for a friend who is presently having a training course in Africa as a surprise birthday gift,i would have loved to handle the postage myself but i'm a very busy man, so i will be offering you £200 for the shipping cost to W/Africa via Royal Mail Intl Signed For(Post office).

So please if you are interested in selling this item to me kindly send me your Full Name and your PayPal Email address or send me a PayPal Money Request,so that I can send out payment immediately.

kindly send an invoice for the total cost of the item and postage cost to Lagos,Nigeria via paypal and i'll make the payments asap...

Your urgent response will be highly appreciated.

Any Question call me on:+447031869231
Mr Wayne

montyzuma · Community Moderator Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 7556

Mike, what does it have to do with Gumtree?
What control do they have, over who responds to your ad?

The same could happen with an ad in a newagents window

Mike check · Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 4

what does it have to do with Gumtree ?
The fact that 95% of the people who have shown interest in my sale have been scammers.
It isn't gumtree's fault that these individuals are operating on here, but it strongly discourages me from wanting to use this service again.

It also reflects poorly on gumtree that there are so many people using their service to exploit others.
Only the other day through using this site did i receive a totally legitamate looking payment from paypal. If it wasn't for being savvy, i would have been done up like a kipper there and then.

So what does it have to do with gumtree ? Quite alot, especially if they care about their reputation

MIke

montyzuma · Community Moderator Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 7556

I am an unpaid forum mod and my thoughts are my own

Gumtree, craigs list et all are providing a free platform for you to sell stuff, I cant for the life of me see how they could police the people who contact you to find out if they are scammers.

if comet have an ad on the sky and someone plays with a dodgy credit card, is it sky's fault?

gumtree have warnings on the site telling you its about local trading and how to stay safe, i am at a loss knowing what else you are looking for.

chris1502 · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:35 pm Post subject: Re: scam email addresses

dicky_21 · Joined: 14 Apr 2009 Posts: 25 Location: London

Hi guys. i have started a list on another thread so would be great if we kept it all under the same one. Ive added all of these to it and hope you can do the same with any more you get.

The thread is - scammers list so far

Regards, Rich

Miso Soup · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 209

Fake E-mail accounts can be made really easily. There's not much Gumtree can do to block the message being sent to you.

If they choose to block messages all you fools will come running to the forums wondering why you can't send messages...

loucee · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 10

personalshopper@live.co.uk

nickreeve · Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 1

Another one to watch out for is ron.suntry@hotmail.com. Said he lived in Italy and wanted to rent out his flat in Kensington, unbelievably cheap with all bills included but wouldn't come over to let us view the flat until he was sure of renting it, then wanted 2 months' rent in advance via Western Union transfer - a big no-no as Gumtree warns against such transfers. A typical example of something being too good to be true!

bobby-b · Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 169

theres a website that lets you see where emails come from...the country aswell... ip2location.com i've tried it an it showed the email i got was from nigeria...its good

master2601 · Joined: 28 Oct 2009 Posts: 1 Location: nl

rosesmith5ive36

JasonB · Joined: 09 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

I answered to a few ads in the dating section, i was pleased when i saw replies from those ads. They seemed genuine but at the end of each e-mail there was something like "click below for pics of me that gumtree couldn't let me post" and links to adult sites at the end of the message.