61428465117

Annie SNELS!!! She just replied back to me with the same reply as most of you! 2 hours after posting the ad on gumtree!!!

Thanks a lot for the email. I am away at sea at the moment,i work with New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) and we are presently offshore in New Zealand Taranaki Basin on kapo project. We do not have access to phone at the moment,its 15days off and 15days on,which is why I contacted you with internet messaging facility. Where is it located at the moment?

am very satisfied with your advert,i will like you to get back to me with is present condition and i want it delivered before my arrival.I won't be able to come for the inspection due to the nature of my work and i would have called but our calling is restricted.Regarding the payment,pls get back to me with your final asking price and your paypal details so i can process the payment,you can alternatively send your bsb and acct number if you have no paypal acct.I have also contacted my courier who will come for pick up after the whole fund has been cleared into your acct.

Await your reply.

Yea I just got the exact same one on carsales, saying he was buying the car as a gift for his son who just graduated uni. The misspelling of his own name in the email address was the warning sign for me.... This site just confirmed it, thanks guys!

I got a txt from richardmurd2002@yahoo.co.uk too, and he said:

"Thanks for getting back to me, I am satisfied with the Condition of the Vehicle, I am indeed very motivated to purchase from you and am purchasing it for my leave because i'll be coming soon from the field. I work as a Petroleum Project Engineer here in (Amadeus Basin) My Job won't permit me to come over for inspection, contact via phone would have been the easiest way to talk to you but we are out of cell range, the satellite is often acting up but we can get along via e-mail. I will process the payment through PayPal because it is the fast and easy way to pay and get paid online, safe and secure for both of us.Once my money is through into your PayPal account, my Courier Agent will contact you in-order to handle the pick-up and delivery at any location of your choice to my Home.If you don't have a PayPal account yet, you can easily set up an account just log on to (www.paypal.co.uk). PayPal is a smarter, faster, and safer way to pay and get paid.
I will need this following details so i can proceed with the payment right away,

Are you the first owner?
Your PayPal e-Mail Address?
What is your reason for selling it?
Final price?"

Funnily enough, the originating IP address of his mail resolved to a Nigerian ISP address... who'd a thunk it?
http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/41.220.69.152

BTW, if anyone else wants to check the validity of the sender, try this (assuming you're on a PC).

* Install Windows Live Mail (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-li ... s=overviewother)
* Set it up to log into your account (it will work with most services, including Gmail if you enable IMAP support - instructions are provided).
* Open the email you're looking at, and go to File | Properties, then Details, then click on the Message Source button to make it easier to read (it opens the whole thing in its own window)

You're now looking at the raw email message, with all the header information that is like a routing slip at the top. Every service or server that handles that message will stamp its own status at the very top, so you work down the list like to track back where the thing came from. You should be able to figure out the very first address that the message came from - that's very likely to be the originator. Here's the header from my recent example...

Received: from [212.82.98.90] by tm14.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Jul 2014 09:41:34 -0000
Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1027.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Jul 2014 09:41:34 -0000
X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-4
X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 216621.5017.bm@omp1027.mail.ir2.yahoo.com
Received: (qmail 94283 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Jul 2014 09:41:34 -0000
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.co.uk; s=s1024; t=1404812494; bh=CtEuvhwWR4L7spTiAVV10KtDV5lLrfBkSH0HbosmP9s=; h=References:Message-ID📅From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b={some lines of encoded guff}
Received: from [41.220.69.152] by web28903.mail.ir2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:41:34 BST
X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: {more encoded guff}
X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.191.1
References: <CALAb=e4xSCRPJJGS5-BAj=ic8gYsT0pwYFHA9qOMLOrEp_yqZA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1404812494.97559.YahooMailNeo@web28903.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:41:34 +0100
From: Richard Murdoch Murdoch <richardmurd2002@yahoo.co.uk>

See above - the first fingerprint on the email was the received from 41.220.69.152 by Yahoo's webmail server. Plonk that address into http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/41.220.69.152 and Robert's your Nigerian Father's Brother.

Just got a text message from 'Kathy' with following text:  "Do you still have the gumtree furniture advert listing ? pls reply to kat.kat001@rhelps.net plz no text"

There isn't an actual mobile number that appears with the message and if you attempt to save it to your contacts, it just saves under 'Kathy'.

Received it no less than 10 minutes after I posted an ad on Gumtree.  I'm going to report it to Gumtree - from reading other posters comments, seems like its a regular problem!!

Just got a message from "christopher":
Hello, Do you still have the Furnitures available up for sale? Please Reply Me direct to kawerau2@gmail.com
Thanks Paul.

It also shows no telephone number at the message. I texted him back, looking forward to his answer ....

I posted an furniture-ad on "willhaben.at", a little website in Austria!, which isn't big or international! Some things are very     frightening today ...

mfg.

gracyrobs@gmail.com. Text message that can't be replied to. Stupid initial question when all details are spelt out blatantly in the auction. Very annoying! Poxy scammers.

Hi I advertised a car on gumtree on Saturday and Monday got email from Davis Scott works on nzog offshore too same as everyone else can only pay through paypal

hi, same happened do me just today. what happened after you received that message?

Watch out for this organisation the attempt to scam hundreds of people.
There is a lot of them.

Known aliases:
-Lisa Portah
-Richard lewendon
-Jamie Francis
-Akinfusi Adesoji
-Wei  Liu

Known emails:
-lisaportah101@gmail.com
-jamiefrancis101@gmail.com
-jamie.francis@gmail.com
-richylew01@gmail.com

Known phone numbers:
-061428465117
-5712506147

Known locations:
- Akinfusi Adesoji, 999 rue georges guynemer Appt 19 batiment E le rocroi, Amiens, Picardie 80080 France
- WEI  LIU, Gong ti bei lu, Beijing, 100024, China

Relative data:
-https://plus.google.com/113645224882191558230/about (Lisa Portah)

Got an  sms from this scammer - as per below
Thanks a lot for the email. I am away at sea at the moment,i work with New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) and we are presently offshore in New Zealand Taranaki Basin on kapo project. We do not have access to phone at the moment,its 5days off and 25days on,which is why I contacted you with internet messaging facility. Where is it located at the moment?

I am buying it for my for my holiday and i want it delivered before my arrival.I won't be able to come for the inspection due to the nature of my work and i would have called but our calling is restricted.Regarding the payment,pls get back to me with your final asking price and your paypal details so i can process the payment,you can alternatively send your bsb and acct number if you have no paypal acct.I have also contacted my courier who will come for pick up after the whole fund has been cleared into your acct.

Await your reply.

No reply sent as i realised this was a scam straight away

Today I received an SMS from +61428465117 with an interest in renting a room

"I am highly interested in renting ur unit on easyroommate web so send me more details/fotos directly to my email (dvdlnll@gmail.com) Pls. I prefer email only

Another type of scam.

tomshedy01@gmail.com e-mailed me the following in response to an ad for a dining room table:
Okay i will pay your asking price,and will not able to pay via cash,
so due to that i will be paying you via check .Will ask my mover's to
come for the pick up at your location after payment cleared.

Sounds like a complete scam.  Thanks for the heads up.

Hello.
I'm selling baby furniture on gumtree and I've had a reply from Mary bash. Same email address. I was going to give over my
Details but felt uncomfortable about
This "agent" dealing with it. Still insure what to do. Is she def a scam?
Thank you.

If you don't get money in your account, yes it's a scam. Paypal don't withhold money.

Just got a message from greg fox asking to buy my car
"Is your vehicle still for sale?i want to meet for viewing?please Email me with your final asking price to gregfox11@live.com.au Email only."
I'm not stupid it's a scam!'

Thanks for your mail. i would be glad to pay for it as soon as possible though i will not be available to come for an inspection due to my flexible schedule.Kindly get back to me with the following questions below:

1) What is the condition?
2) Are you the Owner?
3) Your Pick up Location?
4) Your full name and your PayPal email id for the instant payment

I would be glad to make the payment immediately through PayPal so kindly get back to me with your PayPal ID. You need not to worry yourself about title transfer and shipment,i will instruct the shipping company to handle that.. Thanks and hope to read from you soon

Got same thing today. Did anyone get hacked by sending email directly from there address?

This is the latest spiel from "scottlewis374@gmail.com" to a recent gumtree add I posted:

Thanks for the response,I would have loved to call you directly but due to the nature of my work we do not have access  to phone at the moment,which is why I contacted you with internet messaging facility.

I am buying this for my first son who just graduated on top of his class at Charles Darwin University in NT ,He studied Building Design & Architecture. I want it to be the perfect graduation gift for him and am making it a surprise package ,Does it have any history I should be aware of? and why are you selling if you don't mind my asking. I don't mind adding an extra $300.00 for you just to take down the posting..I am already in talks with freighters that will handle the pickup and delivery .I will really appreciate if you can email more info

Due to the nature of my work i am a very busy man working all day,am a sailor am presently on-board, i don't have access to my bank account online as am not with my credit card details here but i have my ANZ bank account link up with my PayPal account so I will be paying you through PayPal to your nominated bank account or better still is if you have a PayPal account ,please get back to me with your BSB and account details or PayPal account so i can proceed with the payment and contact the courier agent who will come to pick it up and deliver it in NT for my son .Await your reply .

I had exactly the same message today from same email address