I posted it on ebay UK and got a bid. The bidder sent a question saying if he won could I post it as soon as I could because he had just moved house and they did not have anything. That was fine with me. He wins the bid but only then did I realise he was bidding from the Netherlands. I thought that was a reasonable place to post something to so still no alarm bells. I could never get why for every email I received when I clicked reply service@paypal.com came up in the box but never questioned. Communicating was difficult but as he said English was not his first language no alarm bells there either. His ebay account was no longer active though I did not think that was my business to ask about. He said he wanted me to paypal the money quite early on in the transaction so I did not think much there either. I got forwarded copies of his confirmation of payment of paypal from him. One of the emails had a dodgy choice of font for a paypal email but there was me thinking oh, that’s just Paypal’s NL website format. It said that to deposit funds into my account shipping details needed to be forwarded to transferteam@mailconsultant.com. I did find that weird but the reason the email gives is it protects buyers and sellers from fraudulent transactions by requesting shipping details first. I gave the shipping reference and assumed the ‘team’ waits for the order to reach the destination before releasing funds. I had been thinking the converse – that paypal is needing to protect buyers from bogus sellers who say they are selling something take the money and vanish. The tracking number shows the item was delivered yesterday and signed for by the person in the email correspondence I had. Paypal has just emailed me that they have no record of any recent transactions into my account and that money is just deposited immediately when a transaction takes place. I was thinking at first that maybe the money is just a little late. However after reading the article above I doubt that very much now. That ‘shipping reference’ argument and I will send that email to anyone who would like it was extremely convincing sounding so more awareness does need to be made to people in future. I thought I was being careful. Obviously not.

shipments_verify@mail2consultant.com

Bottom line, if it seems too good to be true….then it is!

What a scam!!!!! just told him to f-off and that was it! for a split second he had me convinced though!
but there was no money lodged to my paypal account so that was a bit of a giveaway!
I hope nobody gets conned into this trick!!!!!

just wanted to let you know that I am on to your scam. Perhaps the next time you wish to fool someone you will think things through properly. You used about three different email addresses to contact me which seems extremely out of the ordinary. Furthermore, who in their right mind would pay $450 for a Ps2? Don’t you know that a new Ps3 in the states retails for fifty dollars less than that? Additionally, you have a very poor command of the English language and made numerous grammatical and syntax errors in your emails. Pastors read a lot and are usually gifted orators, and I seriously doubt their English would be so horrible. I know you are probably a teenager sitting in a Nigerian cybercafe trying to dupe dumb Americans into sending you a product at a loss. I think you should know that craigslist is a LOCAL venue for selling items, so when you asked me to ship the item it was an automatic red flag. Then when you told me to ship it to Nigeria, I knew you were full of shit. U.S. media reports on Nigerian scams extensively. I feel sorry for you because I realize you are probably living on less than a dollar a day, but I won’t be the fool to lose money to a leech like you. Also, Cox is a very rare surname in the United States. You should have done a google search for the most commonly used surnames in the states. Never use US or USA in your email either….its a dead giveaway. As I said before, I feel bad for you and I just want you to know you can go to hell. You aint getting shit from me!