Oh noes, I'm gonna be Busted By the FBI
So, my old ps2 took a turn for the worse and started giving me disc read errors for all my ps1 games. I took it apart like usual (this is not an unusual occurrence), cleaned the laser, fiddled with the height a bit, but nothing was working. It would occasionally read a ps1 game, but never consistently. So anyway, I bought a new (silver *_*) ps2 and put my old one for sale on craigslist. The next day, I got a very suspicious sounding e-mail from someone who wanted me to ship it out of the country and pay me through paypal. "Probably a scam!" I thought to myself, but decided to wait and see, so after confirming that I would only ship to a confirmed and verified paypal address, they sent me the money and I got an e-mail from paypal. "Hmmmm," I thought to myself. "Although official looking, this does not look like Paypal's normal e-mails." So I checked my paypal account and lo and behold, no new money! So I merrily reported the e-mails to Paypal's scam link and forgot about the whole affair. However, today, I received another e-mail from "Paypal" via the scammers that made me laugh and I had to share.
Dear Valued Customer,
The Money as been deducted from the buyer's paypal account and will not be credited into your account until you send us the USPS Shipment Tracking Number ,The transaction cannot be cancel you must shipped the item out by tomorrow morning or LEGAL ACTION shall be taken against you.
We request for the Tracking Number to prove postage of the item in less than few hours and we will fund the money into your account or face the consequences of LEGAL ACTION and your paypal account will be canceled and you will get Busted By the FBI
This is done in other to protect both the seller and buyer. email the tracking number to us here ( shippingdetails@clerk.com )
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Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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PayPal page.
PayPal Email ID: PP304
And yes, it really came with that picture to try and scare me into shipping my poor half-working ps2 to Nigeria.
Dear Valued Customer,
The Money as been deducted from the buyer's paypal account and will not be credited into your account until you send us the USPS Shipment Tracking Number ,The transaction cannot be cancel you must shipped the item out by tomorrow morning or LEGAL ACTION shall be taken against you.
We request for the Tracking Number to prove postage of the item in less than few hours and we will fund the money into your account or face the consequences of LEGAL ACTION and your paypal account will be canceled and you will get Busted By the FBI
This is done in other to protect both the seller and buyer. email the tracking number to us here ( shippingdetails@clerk.com )
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Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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PayPal page.
PayPal Email ID: PP304
And yes, it really came with that picture to try and scare me into shipping my poor half-working ps2 to Nigeria.