Beware of eBay iPhone Scammers: True Story
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pSo I a href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/reviews/my-16gb-3g-iphone-for-1/ rel=nofollowlisted my iPhone/a on eBay this past Monday hoping to sell it and buy the new a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G S. I went to bed that night and when I woke up, I checked my email to find that someone had committed to #8220;Buy it Now#8221; for $450. /ppThe buyer, whose alias was strongkammanns828287/strong, had a 0 feedback score on eBay. After contacting this person all day and receiving no reply, I received an email the next day from a so-called #8220;Stella Jones#8221; claiming to have paid me via PayPal and asking me to ship the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a to her son in Nigeria:/pblockquotedivGreetings to you. I am Stella Jones from US. I#8217;m contacting you concerning your item on EBay, I#8217;m presently in London on a business trip and intend sending this item to my son who works with the United Kingdom Embassy in Nigeria as a gift, I checked through USPS (WWW.USPS.com) website and found out that the postage cost to Nigeria is $100, so i have just made a swift payment to you via PayPal./div/blockquotepa href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/scam-email-from-iphone-buyer-on-ebay/ rel=nofollowRead the full iPhone scam e-mail here/a./ppAfter that, I received a fake PayPal email, with subject PAYPAL PAYMENT CONFIRMATION ID#30688737FG3075722, claiming #8220;You have an Instant Payment of US $550.00 from Stella Jones to your account for an eBay item through PayPal.#8221;/ppThere was, in fact, no money in my PayPal account. So I have relisted the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a and reported the user who scammed me so that eBay doesn#8217;t charge me the fees I have been billed. /ppIt concerns me that on my current a href=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem#038;item=220436978488 class=extlink rel=nofollowiPhone auction on eBay/a, there are a couple of persistent bidders with 0 feedback scores. I want to sell this a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a already, because I#8217;m leaving on a trip tomorrow for a week, but I have little confidence that I won#8217;t be scammed again./ppA search on Twitter confirms that I#8217;m a href=http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ebay+iphone+scammers class=extlink rel=nofollownot the only one/a who has been scammed on eBay trying to sell/buy an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a./ppHas anyone else been scammed on eBay when trying to sell OR buy an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a? Please share if you have had a similar experience./pdiv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/me9vkLlBy14 height=1 width=1 /