Be Excellent To Each Other

I mentioned a buddy of mine in MD USA (the chubby bloke) a while back saying how much I valued him as a genuine friend.

A few months back his father went into hospital for a routine operation, basically a small valve for the heart needed to be replaced with either a pigs or cows. This is apparently very routine and he had had it done before.

When he went in for surgery they discovered other problems. A colon problem that led to removal of part of his colon, kidney problems, lung problems.. They ended up inserting a trach in his throat and he lived out the rest of his days on dialysis.

This was obviously crushing for my friend, who watched his father go in for a routine surgery and then slowly but surely over the space of three months watched his body fail and in the end watched him die.

Obviously I was terribly upset by this because I knew his father very well and he was ruddy good to JC. Especially when my life collapsed around me in the USA and I had nowhere to go. He let me go there for a couple of weeks to get my head together and was really humanly kind to me.

I was pretty worried about my friend and the remainder of his family lose their house. They do have an enormous house but they have only been in it for about 2 years and it was their 'dream house' that my friend's father had worked hard for all of his life. Apparently there aren't sufficient funds to completely pay off the house (as his father wasn't expecting to die suddenly as he did) and they will now need to sell it and move out.

As if all of this wasn't bad enough my friend has had to take leave from work to bury his father and take care of everything as his mother has just fallen to pieces.. Last night in a convo over Skype I suggested to him that he get everything taken care of and then come and visit JC for a break away and some fun to take his mind off it all. Of course he was delighted at such and offer and we began making plans.

Because of a bit of a cash shortage he decided to sell a portable pc/phone thing (forget what it is now) that he got in Jan for $700. He put it on ebay for $450 start and $600 BIN.

A few hours it sold at the BIN price, and we cheerfully started making plans for his holiday here in late July. Then out of a bit of my paranoia I asked him to check the ebay buyer's credentials (even though he has 100% feedback over 58 transactions..) and it basically ammounts to this.

http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/ebay-auct ... m-exposed/

So now my friend has to fuck around reporting to ebay, delaying everything and causing him even more unwanted shit.

Man, life can be so fucking cruel to some people sometimes

Gah, that's crappy. He didn't end up sending it out, did he?

Nah did he heck. He phoned me thismorning all excited because it had sold immediately.. Which was what set the alarm bells ringing..

Good thing I helped him out really. He's in such a mess right now that he might have fallen for it.

We're just waiting on his fake payment to arrive at his email and then the cunt to get all lippy about sending it before the funds clear etc.

Just got done reporting a spoof to ebay who have their fraud dept on it.

I mean it was pretty obvious as soon as I said "Ry, does the dude live in Lagos?" and he sends me this

Buyer's shipping address:

peter adewale

22,ijesha road

lagos, nigeria 23401 Nigeria

It's a shame he reported it to ebay, he could have done a P-p-p-p-p-owerbook and mailed him a brick in a box with a declared customs value of $2000.

That's like, one of the top 5 best things of ever.

See, that was a great, classic sting. Right up until the point where JEFF WAS NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN.

I did wonder, they arguably had a bit of real information about Jeff by the time the sting had finished.

I hope Jeff is still alive.

Oh contraire ! I have Mr Jeff on Myspace and he is alive and absolutely well haha.

IIRC his myspace handle is mynameisjeff

What would you know? just got the fake payment from Paypal

Dear ******,



Am beeging you in the name of GOd please let me know what is going on the (payment) pleaser get back to me asap.



- johnsy206

Fucking bastards don't give up. Now they're resorting to fraudulent threats.

Dear ********,



For the safety and integrity of the eBay community.

You were the seller of an ebay item HTC Touch HD (T8282) - UNLOCKED Windows Mobile (********) bought off you by our reliable customer (Vanessa Ariana) and he has informed eBay that postage for the item has still not been done, As a result, you have received an Unposted Item strike Furthermore, you will lost feedback privileges for this transaction if the posting of the item is not done as soon as possible.


If the item is not posted within 24hrs of this warning suspension of this account will take place and be advised that you will be prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account if the item bought by (Vanessa Doye) has not posted a posted as agreed.

Please note that any seller fees due to eBay will immediately become due and payable. eBay will charge any amounts you have not previously disputed to the billing method currently on file.



Regards,

Safeharbor Department

eBay, Inc

Have they really called their "reliable customer" by two different names in the space of the same e-mail?

Yup. My favorite was

He should send an email back saying "I'm smoking a faaaaag" hehe

That is pretty special! I imagine the name of the person who actually bought it is different again!

That's the worst fake since the 'image of you breaking the speed limit' website which has 'DONT GET CAUGHT OUT' at the top in giant letters.

Hello,



I just sent the payment for the item. I also included an estimated cost of shipping to MD. Please let me know when you get a notification from paypal that Vanessa Doye sent you a payment. Send me the tracking number via DHL OR EXPRESS POST as soon as you ship the item. I am having difficulties getting across to my daughter that school over there. I gave his address to paypal for verification.it has been confirmed so it should be in the payment notification

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Five minutes later.....


His correct mailing address again is:



YINKA DOYE

8101 SANDY SPRING ROAD,

SUITE 220 #9247 LAUREL.

MD.20707

USA

(The third one they have tried. What part of "no money no fucking item" are they failing to understand here?!?!?)

And then this....

We're happy to inform you that Mrs Vanessa Ariana eBay Account has been released,You can now go ahead and get the item sent to her required shipping address,her suspension was due to a report that we received about an unpaid item strike from a seller.-- however unintentionally -- to the eBay community.

We have also been informed by paypal that the buyer had already made the payment for the item you are still holding,you may try as much as possible to get in touch with paypal to know the status of your payment.The buyer Mrs Vanessa Ariana had made the payment via paypal and we have confirmed this from paypal,you will need to check your email ******** first to see the payment confirmation from paypal.
We're appeal this suspension. Per the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us. For information about how to appeal this suspension, please go to:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/rele ... ounts.html
Unfortunately, during the releases we happy if you can get the item sent to the buyer's required shipping address or your account will be suspended due to concerns we have for the safety and integrity of the eBay community.

We've looked at the address and it goes to here. A shitty apartment complex on I-95 in Laurel MD. Right before you hit Baltimore. I've driven past it loads of times.

EDIT. GOOGLE STREET VIEW THE ADDRESS.

Are these actual emails or you typing them in to show us?



We many happy yes!

They're the verbatim emails.

I've been archiving them all for him so he can phone the police (they seem to be getting desperate enough to hand out a U.S address.. big mistake).

I feel really bad for my pal though man. He's getting more and more wound up by it and now just isn't a good time. He found out yesterday that he has no medical benefits. Apparently the company his father worked for out there (that he fucking sold them) have cancelled the entire family's medical plan. Gotta love American businesses

So now he's got to find a medical plan and faff around (they've also told him to go clear out his pop's office, something he's been absolutely dreading )

And he's got an annoying cuntwipe Nigerian pestering him like a mosquito buzzing around your head when you're trying to sleep.

What makes me laugh is these thick cunts seem to think that sending him a faked paypal payment via email will satisfy him that the money has been paid. Note the mention a good few times of "check your email for payment". What part of "Look, cunt, the money isn't in the actual paypal account so get to fuck" doesn't this Mugu cunt understand?