Comments on: How I Almost Sent my iPod to Nigeria

By: fraud scam

fraud scam — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:17:04 +0000

eBay is the heaven for scammers. I learned this the hard way.

By: adam

adam — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:30:40 +0000

haha, i just listed my used ipod on facebook last night and already this morning i have 3 offers for waaay more than i'm selling it for, all of them wanting me to ship it to west africa to their son/wife/best friend.

By: RobynGraves

RobynGraves — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:16:04 +0000

Same thing early happened to me with Craigslist. I got 2 offers from 2 different people. One asking me to ship to Nigeria, the other to “West Africa”! In both messages the person was asking me to ship the Ipod to their 'son' or 'brother in law' in a different country. Good thing I still have my mother around to save me from my own naivety.

By: Quotes

Quotes — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:07:50 +0000

This quite funny, I liked reading it! thanks for sharing this experience.

Chris.

By: free ipod

free ipod — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:40:19 +0000

complete given details above prouduct
how is purchased an aipod

By: grover

grover — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:16:43 +0000

Whose research, “Jim”? The research done by your and your Nigerian scammer colleagues?

Seriously though, if it’s truly only 25%, then why aren’t the other 75% (a substantial majority) doing anything to prevent their scamming countrymen from giving them and their country a bad name?

By: grover

grover — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:13:08 +0000

Whose research, “Jim?” The research done by you and your Nigerian scammer colleagues?

Seriously though, if the number is only 25%, why aren’t the other 75% (a substantial majority) doing something to stop the rampant scamming that is giving them and their country a bad name?

By: Prasanth

Prasanth — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:11:17 +0000

Is there anything wrong if I give my PayPal id to someone who hires a service even before I do it? I am relatively new to this online money transaction thingy, so can anyone help?

And, great article btw. people like me can know what to avoid.

By: Ryuko

Ryuko — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:01:30 +0000

Good catch. It sucks that these guys are making such a bad name for their nation — and scaring a lot of Americans from buying/selling abroad period. But none of us represent a major corporation (or do we… :p) so better safe than sorry.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:02:11 +0000

i sold my ipod to a Nigerian guy before and i got my money perfect the shipping was a little expensive but i covered it got my money and im happy, Not all Nigerians are scammers, research says just 25% of them are.