Examples of Suspected Fraud/Fake Emails

[PayPal_Adrian]

Hello everyone!

One of the greatest strengths consumers possess against fraud and phishing is education and collaboration.  To help support your safety online, I'm going to open this special thread up for you.  Here, you can post examples of what you believe to be attempts by individuals to defraud you or others of their hard earned valuables and money. 

Before we begin, a few housekeeping points:

• We will be using this as a "master thread," so if we find an example in other areas of the boards, we may merge the post into this one.

• For everyone's safety, please remove any last names or contact information (including email addresses) from your examples.  In many instances, the names provided by fraudsters are fake or may actually be the name of someone they already defrauded. 

• On that same note, please don't ever attempt to confront a fraudster or attempt to track them down.  Instead, turn the information you do have over to your local authorities. 

• Please also remove any links from your posts, as these could potentially go to spoofed or phishing websites.

Other than that, we only ask that you keep it productive and stay within the Forum Decorum and posting guidelines.  I'll be stopping in on a regular basis to clean house and comment on posts, so don't be surprised if you see my mug - or another moderator - stopping in to say hello! 

With that said, I'm going to start moving posts in, so you might see some older examples mixed in with the new posts.  I hope this thread becomes a great resource for everyone!

Stay safe,

Adrian

[glowfish51]

Let us know what happened with sending fake tracking! I wish I thought of that when I realised. I just sent a very threatening text and never heard from them again... ha!

[orobinson]

Just got the exact same email... Thanks to this site I was able to recognize it.  He's running the scam from Kijiji also

In this scenario his son is going on a missionary trip to west africa but he never says where.  The fake paypal emails are the same however.

It's annoying!

[mahw]

I always do research before sending something to the person (buyer). And researching for the address I got here. Thank you!
I saw that the same address exists for frauds.
Of course I already think about not sending the request.

Take care always! Do some research before sending the request!
This helps not to fall into scams.
As I can see they only come after electronics and give the excuse of sending the request as a gift to someone.

23401

[Jacquecamille]

I'm almost positive this mans trying to hack me! Very persistent wanting me to ship asap said I will not receive money until he gets the iPhone and also he's from Nigeria lol. I'm not dumb. kenedy <removed> Address: <removed>, City: Ejigbo. State: Lagos. Country: Nigeria Zip/Postal code: 23401 Here's the info I'm not buying it

[Babyg-us]

I was just in the process of selling my phone and the person asked me to send it to Lagos, Nigeria. He told me that he works with U.S. Marines and that he'll pay $100 extra for shipping. He also asked me to purchase a $200 ITunes gift for his niece's birthday. The whole situation sounded iffy to me and I had to see if it could be a fraud and you helped me find the answer I needed.

[palthatpaid]

Ya i got scammed. I shipped or sold a $13,000 dollar watch. Someone did the same thing to me i got a fraudulent email and i think i got took for all that money.....can anyone help me find something i can do about this??????

[Temp20230526al]

I need help samething is happening to me but idk what to do so the money is fake ?

[glowfish51]

100% fake. Just block and ignore!

[Peanutdla]

What did y do? I was dumb not to research it before . Anyway to stop or intercept shipping

[rbrg]

Me too! I shipped a macbook air and was supposed go get paid 750$. I am still in contact with the scammer, but I don't know what to do next. I just shipped off the macbook and I really needed the money. Did you do anything? get the money back?