| Scam Reporter | Scam Tips Received | |
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![]() | Anonymous Hubbard Lake, MI, United States 2014-11-27 02:28:47 Charity scam | Scammer Information said that i was going to be given a large lump sum, and his wife died, he has no kids, he is old and wont live long. … Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | jai Point Cook, Victoria, Australia 2014-11-27 01:38:56 Auction/eBay Scam Gumtree | Scammer Information Same deal as everyone else… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | S Bossard Elk Grove Village, IL, United States 2014-11-27 00:14:54 Overpayment Scam Craigslist (craiglist.com) | Scammer Information Wanted to buy unspecified item (I have several listings on craigslist). Instructed me to set up a paypal acc't where he would deposit my payment.… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Robert Byrd Durham, NC, United States 2014-11-26 17:57:13 Fake/Counterfeit Goods | Scammer Information Dear Winner,
We are Pleased to inform you of your winning sum of $500,000.00 USD with an Apple laptop by Gmail Corporation, in conjunction with Microsoft Window8. We collect all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the people that subscribed to Gmail and various Microsoft Windows users. We only select five people as our winners, without the winner applying and we are also congratulating you for being one of them.
However you will have to fill and s… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Somewhere in United States 2014-11-26 16:50:59 Auction/eBay Scam eBay (www.ebay.com) | Scammer Information Listed my 1971 Chevelle SS for sale around 6 am this morning on Ebay Motors and at 9:01 AM received a funny looking email from a Sarah Purcell sarahpurccy@gmail.com claiming to want more information about the car as she wanted to purchase this 33K vehicle for her son.
Yeah right! How many mothers buy their sons a 33K old school car for playtime? It immediately raised my red flag antennas. Especially because she emailed me directly from a personal email and not through ebay … Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | nebi Tirana, Tirana District, Albania 2014-11-26 14:42:06 Lottery Scam | Scammer Information dated 11.24.2014 in the number 00393395864977 with 1 sms arrived at my phone which showed "congratulations you have won 100.000.00 winning number is 3612 14 send email for more detailed information about what you gain in this email vikinglotto23 @ gmail.com " please I want one answer to this sms If it is true or not. email you can contact me is ernisbrazhda@yahoo.com Thanks.… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Gadsden, AL, United States 2014-11-26 14:25:50 Classified Ads Scam Craigslist (craiglist.com) | Scammer Information The following is the text exactly how I received it with spacing, punctuation, etc:
"Do you still have the item listed.Get back to me via CONEYPOS959@GMAIL.COM and price.Thanks Reply STOP 2 opt-out"… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | No Name Glasgow, KY, United States 2014-11-25 22:45:36 Classified Ads Scam Craigslist (craiglist.com) | Scammer Information Craigslist Scam. Got me for $50.00 Goes by the name of William Cameron, Ohio address, phone number 812-406-9030. The guy searches craigslist want ads. Claims he has the item you are looking. Wants you to wire him the money. This is a scam. The guy is a felon and wanted in several states. … Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2014-11-25 18:00:24 Wills/Probate Scam | Scammer Information Attn; Beneficiary
25th of Nov 2014
Greetings,
My name is Mrs. Jessica Smith, 72 yrs old widow. I got your contact information from a Christian website. I have decided to donate what I have to you. I was diagnosed with cancer of lungs few years ago, immediately after the death of my husband who has left me everything he worked. I have been inspired by God to donate my inheritance to you for the good work of God and charity purpose, i am doing this because my family are unbelie… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Renton, WA, United States 2014-11-25 17:51:41 Lottery Scam | Scammer Information … Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Singapore, , Singapore 2014-11-25 14:34:52 Business Venture Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | Scammer Information Hello,
Thanks for getting back to me. I am a simple, cool and non-smoker
lady. I am willing to rent the unit as I am at sea at the moment as i
am a Coastguard Agency employee in USA but i was Born and brought up
in Moscow, Russia. I am coming to study and I will work part-time down
there but due to the nature of my work, phone calls making and
visiting of website are restricted. I only squeezed out time to check
this advert and send you an email regarding this. i am ready to … Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Peter Somewhere in United Kingdom 2014-11-25 14:10:27 Auction/eBay Scam Gumtree | Scammer Information text me about buying my motorbike said what is my lowest price and reply email only my email was on my ad so I asked why not just send me email about the bike got no reply and I found this site trying to track the number.… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Guwahati, Assam, India 2014-11-25 05:24:42 Business Venture Scam Other Classifieds Site | Scammer Information She is a lady her name is Sophie Dunwoody. She contact me through Facebook that she want to open an NGO in India. For that NGO registration she wants some money to convert her currency into Indian rupee. So I deposit money according to her need on behalf of our friendship. Sum of 631400 in three different accounts and she always say that these account are of RBI officers. And now that lady is not contacting any more and blocked me on Facebook and unfriend me from his Facebook… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Oakland, CA, United States 2014-11-25 01:51:57 Lottery Scam Other Payment Site | Scammer Information I got an email saying "Sandeep Singh" was gonna give me $1.5 million dollars. It said to contact his bank, ABN Amro. The name it said to talk i believe was Wilfred Saye, and to pay $75 or $668 to get the money… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Syracuse, NY, United States 2014-11-24 23:06:44 Auction/eBay Scam Craigslist (craiglist.com) | Scammer Information Responded to Craigslist for-sale Ad, also on Ebay. Sent me text message saying would send money to my PayPal account....Then it "didn't work". Thought it was legit, since he is paying me...
THEN: got nearly identical message from another "buyer"...Must not have realized he already hit me up.::Text of message:
""I got your mail. Well, I have read through your ad and from what I
have seen,it is priced favorably compared to others so I want you to
consider it sold to me because … Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Carlton, Victoria, Australia 2014-11-24 21:11:17 Wills/Probate Scam | Scammer Information You have received a donation of 750,000 USD; Reply for details.… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom 2014-11-24 10:22:21 Classified Ads Scam Gumtree | Scammer Information Sent me a text asking lowest price of car but asking me to only respond by e-mail as he was working on an offshore rig.
Said he couldn't view the car himself and would send a courier to pick it up and it was a gift for his son. Told me he would PayPal me the money first.......was more than insistent on this. It felt a bit strange so I googled his e-mail and saw he had done exactly the same thing........same wording to others.… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous West End, Queensland, Australia 2014-11-24 07:55:23 Classified Ads Scam carsGuide (carsguide.com.au) | Scammer Information trying to buy a car and extract bank account details .told them i needed to have paperwork signed.and only dealt in cash. … Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Somewhere in Australia 2014-11-24 03:53:31 Defective Products/Services | Scammer Information Told we would make money on this program, but no then we were told that we could buy into this other system that would keep us earning approx $2000.00 per week, the total amount changed every time we met it the required amount had now reached $250000.00 that we can't reach… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | chuck Goshen, IN, United States 2014-11-24 00:06:02 Classified Ads Scam | Scammer Information Safety Alert: Visiting Other Websites
Always use Marketplace messaging system to communicate with buyers and sellers. When someone asks you to complete a transaction by visiting another website, they may be trying to avoid being detected by our trust and safety system.
Please report suspicious activity. - Marketplace Trust and Safety Team
Hi and thanks for replying to my ad. I'm in a hurry to find a buyer because
I have a family emergency and I need to sell it a.s.a.p. My n… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Kristen Petty Somewhere in United States 2014-11-23 22:32:59 Dating Scam Yahoo | Scammer Information Claimed to be from Atlanta and soon after we met he had to travel to Capetown Africa for a HUGE work contract Pretty much everything follows suit. Lost luggage...Needs phone...computer etc. Got that figured out now has an unexpected permit that he needs for the job,,, All the while he is professing his undying love for you. Then spent more than he thought...daughter needs schooling....now we need food and it goes on & on. It is all to get the $. I have done ALOT of research… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom 2014-11-23 20:38:41 Dating Scam | Scammer Information said he was the poor soldier in the photos pretending to be in love with me and said he was in Nigeria on deployment but needed £200 to get back to usa so wanted me to send via western union. he had an American phone number that he was definitely messaging from Nigeria from via the whatsapp app.And was very convincing part from he spent too often chatting to me to be working. luckily I never sent him any money but did send him a card with a necklace some bloke gave me ha … Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Somewhere in Australia 2014-11-23 07:13:39 Classified Ads Scam Other Classifieds Site | Scammer Information trying to buy a truck of a web site which is horse deals wanted paypal or bank account details he said he works for New Zealand oil and gas (NZOG) and contacting me by E-mail because he is off shore with no phone service… Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Canada 2014-11-23 03:19:57 Lottery Scam | Scammer Information This is to inform you that your Email has won you the sum $750,000.00 USD and A brand new AUDI Q5 which is organized by Audi Automobile Company in Asia, “Your Email Address" were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over a Million emails from America, Australia, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa as part of our International Promotions Program which is conducted annually, 5 people were selected as our winners and your email is one of our lucky winning … Read Full Report ⇒ |
![]() | Anonymous Atlanta, GA, United States 2014-11-23 02:59:42 Charity scam | Scammer Information I was almost scammed. I honestly almost believed whoever this was. I googled everything and couldn't find anything wrong until I found this sight with another person with the exact email. Glad I didn't send anything. They wanted me to open an account with BNP PARIBAS bank and send 365 dollars through money gram to a Richard Martini. It was almost believable.… Read Full Report ⇒ |