currently being scammed on ebay - how to scam the scammer?

[thunderTS]

Listed 10 brand new laptops on ebay at £300. Someone with zero feedback and with broken English has bought all of them and also paid an extra £600 on top of the £3000; he has paid via Paypal and asked me to send them to his brother in Nigeria. I know the drill (from a stolen bank account; Paypal will remove money from my account in 60 days or something). Now this has already cost me £65.00 in final value fees on ebay and will probably get me a negative feedback.

My question is that seeing as he thinks he is getting £3000.00 worth of laptops surely he would be willing to pay a couple of hundred of real money?

Basically I want him to be a couple of hundred quid down and to be in possension of a large box of my steaming s**t.

• Edited so I don't get arrested.

Edited by thunderTS on Monday 17th August 19:13

[Steve748]

You have to send them to the address on the paypal account? what will happen is, you post them, he receives them and then he files a claim saying he has not received them, pay-scam refund him you are down 10 computers and the money.

last line was spoiled by unnecessary use of the 'b' word and you edited it and left it in!

Edited by Steve748 on Monday 17th August 22:46

[robinhood21]

Cut out ten squares of cardboard and draw pictures of laptops on them, then send them to the scammer.

[SamHH]

Do eBay not offer some sort of protection against this? Would you not be better off using that rather than trying to scam the buyer?

And isn't conspiring to defraud against the T&Cs of the forum?

Edited by SamHH on Monday 17th August 19:11

[Defcon5]

Cant you send him a load of brick filled boxes recorded delivery?

[Austin.J]

Do me a favour and reword the 2nd line in the 2nd paragraph, you could get buggered for it.

[thunderTS]

Steve748 said:

You have to send them to the address on the paypal account? what will happen is, you post them, he receives them and then he files a claim saying he has not received them, pay-scam refund him you are down 10 computers and the money.

last line was spoiled by unnecessary use of the 'b' word

Yea I know this will happen; I'm not going to ship the laptops.

Edited by thunderTS on Monday 17th August 19:17

[TheEnd]

P-p-p-powerbook

[SystemParanoia]

withdrawal the money then close your paypal account

[Maxf]

TheEnd said:

P-p-p-powerbook

yup: http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

[thunderTS]

TheEnd said:

P-p-p-powerbook

haha I've read the story; truly amazing

[thunderTS]

SystemParanoia said:

withdrawal the money then close your paypal account

correct me if im wrong but i think Paypal can still take the money back

[s3fella]

Not if you close you bank account too.

Tell him to come and collect them, then kill him and bury him under the patio.

[thunderTS]

s3fella said:

Not if you close you bank account too.

Tell him to come and collect them, then kill him and bury him under the patio.

that is tempting

[Kitch88]

Not the most satisfying approach, but I think you'd be best off just reporting it all to eBay - you should get all your fees refunded and start again.

Not listed things on eBay myself for quite some time, but I beleive there's an option to stop people with zero feedback or from outside the UK from bidding?

[SystemParanoia]

i would have no problems or issues going through the effort of closing a bank account for a free £3000! especially a scammers £3000!

[thunderTS]

SystemParanoia said:

i would have no problems or issues going through the effort of closing a bank account for a free £3000! especially a scammers £3000!

It is tempting but I'm sure I would end up getting arrested or something if I did that and also then it does make me a bit of a scammer myself.

[SystemParanoia]

nah, as long as you post somethnig to him that needs to be signed for like a empty envelope. paypal wont to a damn thing

see other running thread about bmw fog lights

[jamoor]

Tell him to arrange a courier to collect.

Send him boxes full of bricks

[Working class]

thunderTS said:

TheEnd said:

P-p-p-powerbook

haha I've read the story; truly amazing

That is fking brilliant!!!!!!