I posted an ad on Kijiji to sell an engagement ring. This guy contacted me via text and told me he wanted to buy it for his fiance, but was on a business trip and needed be to ship it to her, said he would pay $500 extra for me to ship it. He asked for my paypal email address, which I gave to him, however it seemed fishy so I deleted my paypal account. He kept asking for more information and than offered to send an email money transfer. Told him I didn't want to to do business with him and stopped responding to his text. He was very impatient (sending me things like "hellloooooo....." if I didn't respond in 5 second to his text. This guy is a scammer for sure.
I posted on Kijiji for my son a computer and 2 guys texted me at the same time, both offered me the money I was asking plus $200.00 shipping, one said he was on a business trip and wanted to ship to his fiancee another said he wanted to ship to a friend, amazingly both were in Nigeria that they wanted it shipped to?? so obviously scam, one number is 518-328-4978 the other is 328-835-1408
I posted an ad on Kijiji to sell an engagement ring. This guy contacted me via text and told me he wanted to buy it for his fiance, but was on a business trip and needed be to ship it to her, said he would pay $500 extra for me to ship it. He asked for my paypal email address, which I gave to him, however it seemed fishy so I deleted my paypal account. He kept asking for more information and than offered to send an email money transfer. Told him I didn't want to to do business with him and stopped responding to his text. He was very impatient (sending me things like "hellloooooo....." if I didn't respond in 5 second to his text. This guy is a scammer for sure.
This is an absolute scam. I've been posting my laptop on Kijiji and within about 2 minutes of posting it I get texts from these type of long distance numbers saying the exact same thing. They quote the full title of the Kijiji ad, saying they want it shipped to their cousin,fiance, pastor, etc overseas. Will pay more than what i'm asking. Now for fun I just play around saying sure you can buy my laptop that I'm selling for $300, just add another $2000 on top of it. AFter that they stop.
But currently i'm stringing this phone number along for a full 2 days. Giving him a fake paypal email address, etc. Giving him excuses why I haven't mailed it out yet. Gonna waste as much of his time as possible.