Nigerian Scammer Who Sent Fake PayPal Payment Receipt Demands Justice!

[mandy]

Here's a cautionary tale for all those eBayers among you: if a Nigerian contacts you claiming to have stumped up for a successful auction bid and demands that you ship goods forthwith to Lagos, you'd better jump to it.

Otherwise, you might end up on the Metropolitan Police's "most wanted fugitives of the week" list, with your name shamefully plastered across the UK press. Our correspondent explains:

    Just thought I had to share this one with you - a scammer won an ebay auction and then sent me a fake paypal receipt to try and get me to send the goods to Nigeria; I ignored them, obviously...but now they've got the police onto me!...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/09/police_ebayer/

[stardust]

Too funny!!  ;D ;D