Well , this happened to me At eBay.com
after waiting for couple of days , I received my Ipad 2 from my cousin who was in log queue in one of New York Apple.Stores , I was so happy indeed, I turned it on , started downloading softwares & it worked great on Wifi, but tried to put the SIM card and found no slot in the devise, I checked on line and found that Ipads of Verizon operator don't accept SIM cards ( i.e the SR 900 difference I paid for 3G optioin is gone )
I was so frustrated, nevertheless I decided to sell it online, I offered it at souq.com and ebay.com
It was sold in less than 4 hours, with a profit of more than SR 700 , I called the guy in souq.com but he apologized and told me that it was a mistake, I closed the bid and turned to ebay.com at the 1st bid my Ipad 2 was sold to a guy with address in Paris, he asked me to send money request to his email @rocket.cc ..etc , then I received an email taged like Paypal service ,later I knew it's fake , the requested me to ship it to the address he provided me ( his sweetie in Lagos ) as he was traveling to Brazil... I wrapped it and put everything inside and shipped it with priority service from Saudi Arabia to Nigeria ... per his requested.
I provided them with the tracking number and couple of hours later they told me that they encountered tech. error and will deposit the money to my paypal account the next Monday, I waited till last Monday and they told me that they deducted twice from his account and need me to wire transfer the excess money thru Western Union to the same address and kept following up on that , I started to have doubt and checked all the emails and googled similar cases and I was shocked that eBay is recommending not to ship to Nigeria and similar stories were listed......I tracked the shipment and at that date it was import scanned , immediately I called UPS Saudi office to stop the shipment and not to deliver it to the consignee.
they emaild Lagos office and the status was updated to " shipment is being held , UPS will attempt new destination..." I kept callling UPS daily and they told me that Lagos office was instructed so, and they are waiting for the brokerage and returning cost.
The next Friday morning the status was changed to " DELIVERED " >>>>
at the same time the scammer was following up on the wire transfer while I was trying to get some thing from him or his national ID or anything ,but they seems really experts in that .
later I received a fake message from eBay security office asking me to wire transfer the money , both Paypal and eBay fake messages look exactly like received from them not from scammers.
my new IPAD 2 is gone , because it's the 1st time I sell item on eBay , also eBay system didn't support by emailing or providing pop up messages warning about those buyers with zero records also about shipping to Nigeria....
Also UPS share some of it, as they didn't hold the shipment.
I called UPS Saudi office, Nigerian office & no response
I called UPS US office , and after waiting for some time they told me , sorry we can't do anything from US , you have to speak to Saudi office
Finally , I wanted to share with you what happened with me at least to let others learn from such mistake .
total loss SR 4400
السبت يونيو 18, 2016 3:51 pm من طرف محمد عبد الله
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