Got some gear on gumtree and got this...

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From: Solex Nooy <[email protected]>
To: Craig RobinsonAsiaPac
Date: 03/05/2013 02:03 PM
Subject: Re: Contact re Gumtree advert - which item were you interested
in? Thanks - Craig
Sent by: [email protected]



Thanks for the swift response...I am willing to know the lowest price of
it.due to the nature of my job and location...i will not be able to come
for inspection,am a very busy type as i work long hours
everyday,i have gone through your advertisement and i am satisfied with
it.As for the payment..i will be paying you via the fastest and secure
way to pay online(PayPal).I have a private courier agent that will come for
the pick up after the payment have been made ...so no shipping included.
You can now send me your PayPal email so i can pay in right away and also
include your address in your reply.If you don't have a paypal
account,you can easily set up one...log on to www.paypal.com.au and sign
up. its very easy.I await your reply asap

Yeh Craig I'd go for it! What do you have to lose!

Nigerian kitesurfer

sounds to good to be true . ...........................................

yeah just another scammer - usually they fake the pay pal 'payment' advice - ie "I've just paid you - heres the paypal reciept".

I never send anything that is paid for by pay pal until the money has been transfered from Paypal to my bank account.

You can have some fun with these coc#s but it really just wastes you time.

FAR OUT!

I put an ad on gumtree this morning and a few minutes ago I got exactly the same e-mail, found it strange and googled his email address which brought me to this thread. Anyway, total scam!

Cheers

yeah paypal scam is common they can actually pay you via pay pal and then pick up the items "via courier "
then as paypal always protects the buyer over the seller they just say item not recieved and they get all there money back from you/paypal as well as the item
. . . you won't have a leg to stand on as no proof that it was sent to an authorised paypal address

scum. . .

EnglishCraig said...
Can anyone or does anyone know of a way to ring this to Lauries attention in case he goes through the buy and sell as well?

Mate you don't need to bring this to Laurie's attention, I can assure you. These guys have been hitting virtually every buy n sell ad for the last 2 years. There's probably 30 threads on the topic - but the way seabreeze archives them means you can't always find them easily.