GUMTREE PAYPAL SCAM [email protected]

Here's the South African version of the Gumtree scam:

From: base mariana < [email protected] >
Subject: Re: Reply to your Ad on Gumtree: "Singer Lotus Sewing machine- treadle- fully operational with original accessories"
To: Removed (BW)

Good day
How are you do you still have your item available can you please mail me back .
Thanks

Hi Mariana,
I do have it still, but there's someone coming to look at it tomorrow- as long as they actually pitch up : )

Good morning,
Thanks for the email am really sorry for the late response am ok with the price and am buying this for a friend , I am a petroleum engineer currently on a oil rig offshore i really want this to be a surprise to my friend, so I just let him know nothing about it until it is delivered to him, I 'm sure he'll be more than happy with it.I can only pay you with PayPal here , I'll need you to give me your paypal account if you have one and please if you do not have paypal account , it's very easy to set up , go to http://www.paypal.com and get it set up , after you have set it up , I 'll just need the email address you used to register with PayPal in order for me to make the payment and you can recieve the alert that you have been paid.tell me more about the advertising price is okay note well : Pick agent will come for the inspection and to pick it up as soon as I have make the payment to you , I would love to talk to you on phone , but I'm a petroleum engineer I work mainly offshore , our phone is down on the rig now because of the bad weather , we can only communicate with our base station for now.
Thank you.

Removed (BW)wrote:

Hi Marian,

I do have a paypal account. I have sent you an invoice via Paypal, which is the usual way of doing business. I cannot send you my paypal email address, as that is confidential information you don't need.

I will need confirmation of payment from my bank before I can release my precious singer, as I'm sure you understand.

Kind regards,


Removed (BW)

Good day,
Am really sorry for the late response once again i have got a pickup agent that will come there to pick it up but i just recieve his email now..i thought i included that in my previous email.he said he won't come and pick it up unless i pay him the agent commission fee first in order to be able to schedule a pick up time and date,and my pick up agent is presently in Namibia now to pickup some items and the only form of payments he can accept is direct deposite i tried to pay online but i will need a credit card which i didn't bring along and there is no bank offshore! so i have to ask you to help me with the pick up fees,will include the R2000 they charged to pick it up and take it to my home(1st class treatment) to the payments i will send through to you through paypal. After i have made the payments and it has been confirmed by paypal, i will need you to help me send the R2000 to my pick up agent through his using standard bank account.I will be making the payments shortly and will email you as soon as it has been done.

Here is the account number of my pickup agent.

Name : Seshweni vj
Bank : Standard bank
Account number : 10056734342

Thanks