I got to work to find that someone had changed my password and email address on my ebay account. I had to wait over 20 minutes for live customer at ebay to even get back to me. After a series of extremely hard questions about my account activity for the last several years I finally got it back. Someone was using my account to send out those Nigerian bank transfer scam things. Read what they wrote to over 25 people using my account:



"Hello seller, I will like to buy your item for my son in Nigeria. I will offer you 2,500 euro for the item and shipping via DHL.i will also like to make the payment trough BANK TRANSFER.if you feel like selling your item for me you can get back to with this information. Full name Bank information item name item #. Kindly get back to me with your personal email address.
Moreover you can also get back to me trough my email address kate_magreth123@yahoo.com
Best Regards.
Kate M."



If anyone wants to have some fun and spam the ____ out of this _______s email, go at it.


kate_magreth123@yahoo.com




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i worked e-commerce in the late 90s for a hardware distributor. Rule #1 in e-commerce, don't deal with the african continent for any reason. It really is lame to say such a sweeping statement, but anyone working e-commerce knows it already. We used to get huge orders, i remember one, "we got an order for $10,000 worth of coffee pots...but damn, it's from nigeria".

 

I think it's funny that all those bank transfer and lottery spams I get are all from Nigeria. Couldn't they be a bit more creative and pick a realistic country at least?

 

I'm glad you found it before any real damage was done.

 

What would someone do with $10 grand worth of coffee pots? I'm not seeing the money making scam potential. Sure they could sell the coffee pots for some money, but jeez, that's a lot of extra work.

 

said it was for a hotel chain.

 

you send them the coffee pots and you never get paid. Its a big scam. been going on for years. They do it all the time with cars, etc...

 

what they really want is your cc card ##'s or even better yet any bank account records.. if they get those ... it just takes less than a minute to max out the credit cards and empty out your bank accounts.

these scammers can be anywhere in the world... they just use Nigeria banks to forward the funds to them.. after the bank takes their "cut" of course..