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I purchased an item on eBay today.  Shortly after the item ended (which I won), I get an email from a googlemail.com address.   I’m a little suspicious since the title of the email is: Don’t Pay For My Item,Please Read This Email – Item# XXXX. I figure whatever and I read it.  The contents are below:

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Received: from moccasin.propagation.net (moccasin.propagation.net [66.34.170.1]) REALLY? AND YET THIS EMAIL IS FROM EBAY SUPPOSEDLY. NOT THEIR IP!
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:37:46 -0500
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To: me
Subject: Don’t Pay For My Item,Please Read This Email – Item# XXXX, Nintendo Wii Game Console + Games
From: eBay Member: hawkexpress <sm-member@ebay.com> NOT A REAL EMAIL ADDRESS – NICE TRY THOUGH!
Reply-To: bwm590@googlemail.com
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Dear me.

You are the winning buyer for the Nintendo Wii Game Console + Games.
Thank you for your business.

Just reply this email as soon as possible for new payment instructions(don’t pay until you contact me). We can’t use paypal right now,because we change the credit card account number in my paypal account & will be active in 10 days .If you have already sent the money,please cancel your order,in any case contact me for new payment instructions . We will make the transaction through eBay system.

Your purchase:

Item title: Nintendo Wii Game Console + Games
Item number: XXXXX

US $XXX.XX insurance
Included in the total price (optional)
US 0.00 Sales discounts
(-) or charges (+)
US 00.00 shipping/handling

Please send me your shipping address & I will contact ebay for a new invoice with new payment instructions.

Again, thank you for your business.

I decided to play along.  First, I wrote the buyer via eBay’s mail system.  Sure enough, no problems with their Paypal account.   Here’s the dialog between the scammer,  bwm590@googlemail.com named John Michael and myself:

Me:

Hello,

Janice from your seller ID responded to be via eBay and the invoice
was processed.  She said there were no problems with Paypal.  So the
payment was submitted.

Scammer John Michael:

In your paypal account it is an option were you can cancel the payment.

Me:

You can contact me via eBay if there is a problem, not via personal mail.  Thank you.

Scammer John Michael:

You must complete the payment with the invoice that you recive from  eBay and in max 5 dais your payment from paypal will return to your account. I can not use my eBay account to speak with you and that wai  i email you in your personal email address.
Thanks for understanding.

Me:

That’s odd.  It’s against eBay’s Terms of Service to communicate and do transactions outside of their website.  Funny, you have an eBay account (let’s play your game for a minute and assume you do for the sake of an argument), and yet you cannot log in and communicate with me there?  Odd!  Perhaps you should contact eBay about logging into your account then!  I can only wonder how you’re able to post items for sale and yet cannot log in via their website.

Heard of spell check?  If you’re going to fraud someone, you might want to invest in learning English too.  Have a pleasant day!

Scammer John Michael:

I am sorry but i can not do any think for you i must know if you will be able to complete the payment because i have someone else waiting for my answer and I must now.I told you the money that you sent by paypal will be sent back in about 5 days.

Thanks.

Me:

Can you translate this to English please? Thanks!

And no response from the scammer,  bwm590@googlemail.com.  Oh well.  Just be warned if you’re contacted by this guy that he’s a total fraud.  Perhaps he’s busy trying to translate what he wrote to me.

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Update March 18, 2009
Seems like he still wants to play games with me.  I received the following email from him and decided to dumb it down a bit and play some games with the scammer.  Transcript of the email session below:

Scammer John Michael:

On Mar 18, 2009 10:19pm, John Michael <bwm590@googlemail.com> wrote:
You must complete the payment with the invoice that you receive from eBay and in max 5 days your payment from paypal will return to your  account.
Thanks for understanding

Me:

Where do I send the money? You have Western Union? I need winning item fast, dear sir. Please do the needful ASAP as this is an URGENT request.

Don’t worry. Your scam has been exposed.

First off.  How dumb do you need to be?   I called this guy out twice and he is still playing the game and thinking I am sending him money?!  Let’s start misspelling stuff and stooping to his level.

Scammer John Michael:

You have to send the money to the agent details that is in the invoice.

Me:

Never received invoice from u. Pls email 2 me at this addy.

Scammer John Michael:

You have to send the payment from your account or with cash from any Bank to our agent.
This are the agent details were you must send the payment:

Bank Account( IBAN ): RO10INGB0000999901426922
Swift: INGBROBU
Bank Adress: ING Bank Amsterdam Sucursala Bucuresti
First Name : Emanuel
Last Name :  Mustata
Adress: Mihail Kogalniceanu #21
City: Dragasani
State : Valcea
Zipp/Code: 245700
Country: Romania

Me:

I WIRE TRANSFER MONEY TO YOU IMMEDAITLEY.  PLS CONFIRM.

Scammer John Michael:

Please email me as soon as you complete the payment to start the delivery.

Me:

Payment is complete.  Do you knot recieve it?  I resend it.

I mean why not?  It’s not like I am actually sending him money and if he gets his hopes up twice so  I can crush them later on, that’s fine by me!

Scammer John Michael:

We need the details like they appear on the Money Gram receipt .
Sender’s full name and  addres : Receiver’s full name and addres : Amount sent :

Me:

TREAT AS URGENT

sender
John Michael
200, quai Charles de Gaulle
69006 Lyon
France

recipient

First Name : Emanuel
Last Name :  Mustata
Adress: Mihail Kogalniceanu #21
City: Dragasani
State : Valcea
Zipp/Code: 245700
Country: Romania

amount
301.42$

I wonder if he knows that’s Interpol’s address?   Oh well.  Perhaps they will get a Wii!  I “sent” him a little extra money too just for good measure since he’s learning English.

Scammer John Michael:

Dear customer, I need the copy of the invoice that you receive when you complete the payment to check if the payment it was made correct.
Thanks in advance!

Me:

never received invoice, seller.  payment was made correct.

Scammer John Michael:

Yes but the agent it cant pick up the money with out this copy of the document .
Thanks for understanding.

We’ll leave it at that for now.  I’m sure he’ll bother me again in a few days.

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Update March 19, 2009

He’s still asking for the ‘official document’ of my fake payment.   So far he has asked three times in the past 5 hours.  Sounds like he’s getting a little desparate!

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Update March 20, 2009

Silly me to think he’d just give up!  He’s still asking if I have received the ‘official document’ from whomever I supposedly paid at his “company.”  Ha!  This guy’s relentless for not getting a dime from me!

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Update March 23, 2009

He asked me if I was still interested.  Odd, too, considering I received the item from the real seller in the mail today.  I told him he was a scam artist (I use the word artist loosely considering this idiot’s intelligence) and hopefully he’ll shut up.  If you have headers for the emails from him, feel free to forward them to me and I’ll bring them up to the correct people to get this guy.  (admin@siriusaddict.com is my email).