Hey, so, earlier this year I received news that i will be studying in australia, so i though i would sell a lot of stuff so i can start saving some money. I live with my partner and we put a lot of stuff on sale of facebook, gumtree ect. i have always used these pages for selling stuff and never had a problem until this one day i posted add for a fiah tank for £100 on gumtree and my laptop which was quite brand new. I received this message hat someone wants to buy the fishtank on gumtree and they said that they will pick it up so they asked for my address. i gave my address as i though it was real as nothing out of ordinary happened, bare in mind , this was about 11pm-2am (sunday night) i gave them my address and they said that they live quite far away and they suggested that they wil pay for the courier, so i agreed. At the same time i received a message from someone for my laptop(around the same time), i though to myself “win-win, will be able to save some money as the biggest 2 things will be going”. A woman called Vicky messaged for the fish tank and a guy messaged for the laptop. so, i receive a payment to my paypal (notification on my gmail from paypal email address 0that i have received £360. i got confused so i checked my paypal app and i didnt see any money or pending payments. so i went ahead and said to this woman (through gumtree she asked for my email address so she messaged me though gmail [email protected]) teh woman messaged me and said that the courier is booked for the next day (monday) , she didnt say a time or anything. i got confused why i have received email from paypal that i have received £360 from this vicky person and i though that paypal must have put it on pending as i know that people do it for safety reasons(i did contact someone called james or jamie from paypal to confirm that the payment to my account was real and they said that it was real)then i reaceived the message from this vicky person that i need to pay them cack £260 as they have done a mistake and they have a business account and i need to give them back £260 which i will receive back after i do the payment. at the same time i was talking to this other guy about my laptop which he said if i can ship it though royalmail special (i didnt think anything of it as i expected it to be posted ) this guy asked for my paypal email (which is the same as my actual email for gmail.com) i received a email that i have received £475 (price for the laptop) and whill be avable on my account when the buyer receives the item and confirms it. Back to the fishtank situation, i was worried that it was a scam so at first i said that i wont send any money as i dont need to do it but thi swoman started to get agressive that she has payed the money and that she will call her bank and police as i am trying to scam her. she convinced me that she was real and i went ahead and gave her £260 to this monzo bank acount Christian Lato Joh 04-00-04 62227600, tehn i received a confirmation that i will be receiving the while £360 back whithin the next 2h. later that day (monday) i also went ahead and talked to the guy for the laptop and spent £26 to send it somewhere which was 2.5h away from me. then i received another email later on that i need to send another £240 because something has gone wrong with paypal and i got angry i told this woman to give me back my money or i will call to the police , she said shes also stressed as her money has been taken out and she has none, so i had only £140 with me and said thats all what i can send and she said that she will get the rest of £100 so i will get all my money back and she said that the couries is coming in few hours. i refused to pay and received a warning from paypal that my bank willl be blocked and that my paypal will be blocked and no payments will go in or out, i got worried because i was expecting the money for my laptop which i sent £475+£26 for the shipping. i received multiple receipts and they were signed by paypal, had all the copyright stuff at the bottom and the email address was :[email protected]. so i got worries and sent another £140. the laptop was sent to the address i got given by this guy and i had his phonenummber because we were talking though whatsapp. i got more and more final remindings to pay the money or i will get in trouble. i had to send money to places like A A Akintola 11-37-09 11251569 , got emails from [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] , Eric Spike 04-00-04 62227600. now looking back at this, i know i was quite dum for falling for this scam -_- all together i lost £400 and £500 worth laptop , bank said that this was my fault for not checking before giving money and said that i wont get it back. i did contact the police and action fraud and they did nothing. this happened in march-april. still hurts as im 19 and only just finished my college course, finding a job atm inst easy either so i hope you guys learn from my stupidity and dont make the same mistakes. (i was contacted by another girl which is from the same country as i am with a british boyfriend and they got their phone stollen the same way as my laptop and they lost money as well)
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These are all the scammers i caem accros when this happened:
Vicky Davies
Eric Spike 04-00-04 62227600
Christian Lato Johson 04-00-04 62227600
A A Akintola 11-37-09 11251569
Ali Dullal +447574870491 and +447574876571 [email protected], this is the guy who stole my laptop, i had to send it to the 41 Capstan Close , Romford, RM6 4PY UK. His bank 04-00-26 98895481 +1(202)505-3564
And here are all the emails i got messages from:
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], userdesk@mail2online@com, rachel barnns +353899769465 [email protected], Ralph Webley PM4736138 1A Mckinney road, Newtownobbey, Co Antrim, Bt36 4PE UK. [email protected] , [email protected], Andre Christian -07418324758
I found what phones were attacted to these emails:
[email protected] 6.2 and Tecno Spark2
[email protected]- nokia 6.2
[email protected] p9, google pixel 2xl +1
[email protected] N/A aar•••••••••••@gmail.com
[email protected] tecno pouvoir 3
[email protected] +2xx xxx xxx xx84
[email protected] used nokia 6.2
total scam.
I tried to sell something locally, and was then asked to post it to someone’s cousin abroad at a cost of an extra £270.
Of course, I would not get the cost of the item I was selling until I had paid the amount above, and then I would supposedly be refunded for this and the price of the item, effectively doing me out of almost 500 quid.
The woman involved (allegedly in Ireland, said she was in a wheelchair etc.) was:
Ann Johnson <[email protected]>
So BEWARE - never fork out on anyone else’s behalf.
TD
Hi
Yes I can confirm similar thing was attempted to happen to me. This time from email [email protected] (Caroline Johnson, also said about being in a wheelchair) claiming interest in our sofa. She very keenly was going to transfer the money to my paypal account however said that she cant collect ans needs to arrange for the courier. All of a sudden she was saying that the courier wont collect until she first pays for their service, £300. And because of "where she lived" she wasnt able to do a bank transfer to the courier herself as she couldnt go to the bank and said she would send an additional £300 to paypal for us to do a bank transfer to the courier company on her behalf. I received an email from [email protected] saying the money has been taken from her account (the correct amount shown) and funnily enough the paypal email said the account it was sent from was Ann Johnson! But it said transaction is pending for safety reason until we transfer the £300 first to the courier. I checked paypal account and there was no pending transactions. I also was able to chat online to PayPal on their official website and they said that PayPal email doesnt belong to them and this is not a standard practice to have pending transaction but not show it on account or to wait until some other money is transferred. Thankfully I have not sent the money over and thats really thanks to you young man from Australia because you have made me aware of the scam paypal email! Hope as many people can read this and not fall for this awful scam.
I just had someone try to run that scam on me from shpock username ann j i clocked on before any money was sent heres what they said:
I am glad to inform you that I have made the payment! PayPal said that they have sent you a confirmation email so kindly check the inbox/junk mail/spam folder of your email. I had a little problem with the agent they said they can only schedule the pick up date and time after they receive their pick up fee in their head office via bank transfer or bank deposit ,but due to my location and where i live, I’m unable to get to the bank to send it.so I added the £270 they charged for the pick up, you will receive the total sum of £320. You’ll send £270 to them via bank transfer today and here is the details needed for the transfer below:
Sort Code: 04-00-72
Account Number: 08753660
Account Name: Abigail Brentley
Country: United Kingdom
Reference : Goods and Services
Please let me know once you've sent the money so that I can make necessary arrangements
and shpock did email and warn me to not do any deals with them
Hello all,
@system I’m so sorry to hear about your awful scam experience, but I also wanted to say thank you for this post! I almost fell for the exact same scam.
I was selling a sofa on Shpock, we made the deal on Shpock chat but she told me to email her to arrange pick up/payment. I’m new to Shpock, so I didn’t realise all communication should be made on their chat service.
The sofa was £800, ‘Laura Johnson’ emailed to say that she is 9 months pregnant and couldn’t collect the sofa, so she had to organise a courier. She also has the surname ‘Johnson’ as others have pointed out on this thread. She said that the courier wouldn’t accept her £300 payment and that I had to pay it first. I then received a separate email from Lauras ‘PayPal’ for £1,100 to cover the cost.
She said the following, which is exactly the same as @ChanelsADestiny comment.
"I am glad to inform you that I have made the payment! PayPal said that they have sent you a confirmation email so kindly check the inbox/junk mail/spam folder of your email. I had a little problem with the agent they said they can only schedule the pick up date and time after they receive their pick up fee in their head office via bank transfer or bank deposit ,but due to my location and where i live, I’m unable to get to the bank to send it.so I added the £300 they charged for the pick up, you will receive the total sum of £1,100. You’ll send £300 to them via bank transfer today and here is the details needed for the transfer below:
Sort Code: 04-00-75
Account Number: 41153308
Account Name: Benjie Johnson
Country: United Kingdom
Reference : Goods and Services
Please let me know once you’ve sent the money so that I can make necessary arrangements"
I’ve reported it to Action Freud, they said the more people who report the same/similar content, the more likely they will catch the scammers. The crime reference number is NFRC210804718388.
If anyone else experiences this scam, or something similar, please do quote the reference number.
Thanks!
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