Hey guys i have a story for you.

I'm selling my PS2 on Amazon also some games.

Now here's the fun bit here is a copy of a original Email sent from amazon (confirmation of a game being sold i have obviously deleted the sensitive bits.



Dear ross888 Your Amazon.co.uk Marketplace sale has been confirmed.

We've deposited your earningsfrom the sale of this item into your Amazon Payments account. This includes a postagecredit of £1.74.

If you haven't already provided us with your bankaccount information, please do so at your earliest convenience; we cannot transferfunds to you until you provide your bank account details. Please dispatch item immediately. 1 of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Jungle Storm [PlayStation2] You have agreed to dispatch no later than two working days after the buyer's purchase on 09.04.2006. In the unfortunate case that you cannot provide the item that you have sold, you should issue a full refund through your Payments account:

Your buyer's delivery address is below (please use your own address as the return address and enclose the packing slip for your buyer's reference): Here are the details of your completed Amazon Marketplace sale:
Order #: 555578Listings: 1Total Item Count: 1Listing 1: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Jungle Storm [PlayStation2] http://s1.amazon.co.uk/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-
glance/Y07Y3918845Y8741418Listing ID: 0406WKU: Quantity: 1Buyer's Price: £5.50 Postage & Handling: £1.99Total Amount: (£7.49) ----------Less Amazon.co.uk
Marketplace Fees: (£1.83)Less VAT on Amazon.co.uk Marketplace: (£0.27)Total Due
Seller: £5.39 For general questions about Amazon.co.uk Marketplace, you will find more information here:http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/3149141/ Amazon.co.uk Marketplace -- Amazon Services Europe S.a.r.l.Sell Your Stuff http://www.amazon.co.uk/marketplace PACKING SLIP:Amazon.co.uk Marketplace Item: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Jungle Storm [PlayStation2]Listing ID: 0406W219761SKU: Quantity: 1 Purchased on: 09.04.2006Dispatched by: ross

Delivery address:
Dispatch to:

DISPATCH LABEL


Now heres a fake one that i got from some guy in Africa today.


Dear Ross ,Your Amazon.co.uk Marketplace sale has been confirmed.

We\\\'ve deposited your earnings from the sale of this item into your Amazon Payments account. This includes a postage credit of £50.00.

If you haven\\\'t already provided us with your bank account information, please do so at your earliest convenience; we cannot transfer funds to you until you provide your bank account details.

Please dispatch item immediately. 1 of Silver Sony PS2 Console with one controller [PlayStation2] [Electronics]

You have agreed to dispatch no later than two working days after the buyer\\\'s purchase on 18.04.2006. In the unfortunate case that you cannot provide the item that you have sold, you should issue a full refund.By contacting the customer center at ([emailprotected])
to make enquiry for your refund.

Your buyer\\\'s delivery address is below (please use your own address as the return address and enclose the packing slip for your buyes\'s reference):Here are the details of your completed Amazon Marketplace sale:Order #: 936-2500784-9872Listings: 1Total Item Count: 1Listing 1:Silver Sony PS2 Console with one controller [PlayStation2] [Electronics]Listing ID:04513641


SKU:Quantity: 1Buyer\\\'s Price: £100. 00 Postage & Handling: £50.00

Total Amount: (£150.00)


For general questions about Amazon.co.uk Marketplace, you will find more information here:http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/3149141/ .Amazon.co.uk Marketplace Amazon Services Europe S.a.r.l.Sell Your Stuffhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/marketplacePACKING SLIP:Amazon.co.uk Marketplace Item:Silver Sony PS2 Console with one controller[PlayStation2] [Electronics] Listing ID:0406B513641 SKU:Quantity: 1Purchased on: 18.04.2006

Dispatched by:Ross Buyer`s Delivery address:Name : olasaidi oludareAdd : 11 ogundimu street olota captain agbelekaleCity : abule egbaState : LagosCountry : NigeriaZip Code : 23401 Buyer Name: jaxa dudsBuyer e-mail:[emailprotected]

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DISPATCH LABEL--------------------------------------
olasaidi oludare11 ogundimu street olota captain agbelekaleabule egbaLagos Nigeria 23401----------------------------------------

NOTE:YOUR MONEY WILL BE DEPOSITED INTO YOUR AMAZON ACCOUNT WHEN YOU SHIP THE ITEM AND SEND THE TRACKING NUMBER TO OUR CUSTOMER CENTER AT ([emailprotected]) AND AS WELL SEND TO THE BUYER AT ([emailprotected]).


The difference

Where it says dear Ross at the start of the message, In the real one thats my email address in the fake one its just my name.

[emailprotected] is mentioned thats a free email address and not connected to amazon.

The Email they sent in the original said Sold Dispatch now in the email subject where the fake one said Payments confirmed.

there's lots of Random ///////// Throg out the fake email.

strange Â's when ever Money is mentioned

Spelling mistakes

NOTE:YOUR MONEY WILL BE DEPOSITED INTO YOUR AMAZON ACCOUNT This strange note at the bottom thats not in any any of the other ones.


Thats just some advice so play it safe and spot the conns

R0SSIS there anyway to stop this guy?


thanks for reading i just thought i would warn you all because Amazon new comers could send that away thinking its genuine.

R0SS

Smarter than the average bearI do not beleive there is a way to stop the con artist from sending the emails. The best thing you can do is block that specific email with a spamm filter or other applications. Also just to report this because certain sites have an area where youc an report it. I

I ahve got some wierd emails to instead of from Amazon I got a more common one form Paypal. Here is the scary thing though the email seems legit and it even replies to the paypal supporrt center. I check the email it says [emailprotected] it said i need to confirm something and blablabla. I click on it because I was just curious. the scary thing is that the site started off with https://paypal.com/longextentionofwiredlettersandnumers and what YA know a virus was planted on the computer. Not really since my scanner caught it.

I do believe that these companies should send email alerts out to everyone about the fake emails and how to identify it. Instead of any REGULAR consumer finding out the hard way. MANY people do not pay attention to the very fine details in the email just the details we see in front of us.i agree people need to be warned, i hope this thread warrens some people but the company need to tell their customers.

From my experience in Amazon its African people who tend to try to con you.

I have received tones of emails about people offering like £300 for the PS2 and they will send me their UPS shipping account details.

Things like that are obviously too good to be true.

R0SSSo if i click that link windows ill get a virus? Just intreged.
Anyway well spotted ROSS. Have you got in contact with amazon and told them? But when you say its tooo good to be true i dont understand why it is, theyre paying you £300 and then they give you their detais, sounds legit to me ?? Anyone have the tme to explain to me, would be appreiciated.
Something that AOL do which is very helpfull ( yes i did just say AOL was helpfull ) which has stopped people trying to con you out of your account is when they send a message if it is official then it will appear as a blue letter in your inbox.

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P.S sorry if i have just temporarily hijacked your post.Its ok man this is all in the interest of not getting RIPPED OFF!

Well they send you the money through some other thing like Paypal i wouldn't trust it.

the emails all start the same


" I am a doctor working in Nigeria........."

Something about that place. IT LACKS DISAPLINE!

They probably dont have any Laws there. I wouldn't send any one jack there


R0SSI would report it to Amazon and give them time for a satisfactory response. If no response or its unsatisfacrory, the BBC is always looking for a good story. Nothing like bad publicity to get a company moving.Ahhhhh ok thanks Ross, that makes sence. thanks.
Why dont you go along with them for a bit, you know mess with them?? But then cancel everything at last moment, show them that good old Ross isnt an idiot.Ha yeah i was going to send them a box with a note saying GET A GRIPP!

but my mum is into that supernatural stuff and apparently i will get voodood.

Not a fate i would like lol


I might go to watch dog lol


R0SSBest thing is to never respond to a link in any e-mail. Just type in the correct www address and go from there. I get scams supposedly from eBay and Paypal all the time, but there always is a flaw in the link. I report it to their fraud division and delete it without ever clicking anything in it.HAHAHAHAHAHAH Ross, yea thats proberly not the best thing. Seriously though Watchdog? Thats proberly not a bad idea, that might get amazon moving. Or maybe im jsut being a bit to ambitios. GX1_Man whenever things like that are reported does anything even happen? Just curious. And how do they get you email adress, surely theres some people within the COMPAN leaking it all?What we need is a Military organization who find these Internet Hackers and the people who make viruses and all this sick stuff on the net.

This unit like the CIA then go tho their house and well lets just say "Make them never do it again"

The government needs one of these. If there was i would join!!!!!!!!!


R0SS[emailprotected] and [emailprotected] get the complaints. What they do with it is unknown to the end user. E-Mail addresses are readily harvested from the net, from e-bay, from clicking on free offers and inputting that info, etc.Not to mention the fact that they can have a PC just send out Emails to a whole ****load of "potential Email addresses", then subscribe you to a spam list if

• There is no felivery failure notice
• You reply in any way, shape or form