50 new mobiles for Â£10? NOT a good idea!!

50 New Mobiles For 10 Not A Good Idea

It would appear that the following scam is also being used with xbox 360's, be careful!!!

Whilst searching for the new Nokia 8800 mobile, I discovered quite a few auctions offering large quantities of 8800's, N90's and various other new, expensive and highly desirable mobiles, at what seems to be a very good deal. If you take the time to search through the listings, you will see the genuine sellers of (for example) the Nokia 8800, are getting somewhere between Â£300 and Â£350 pounds for there phone at the moment, so a listing offering 46 of these, with a start price of Â£12, seemed a little to good to be true!!

These listings claim to take Paypal, that the 'phones are all with manufacturers 2-year warrenty, brand new, unlocked blah blah blah... BUT they also say that there Ebay registered e-mail is "having some problems", and that you should contact them on what is normally a net-based email. (yahoo, gmail, hotmail etc.)

This is when your first reply to an enquiry to something like shipping cost, asks you for your full name and address "so we can start the shipping"

After several more mails, you discover that they will only take Cash posted direct, funds from Western Union, or other direct transfer system--Which Ebay has now banned, and when you ask what garuntee they offer you, they'll tell you "I'm an honest busines man, with a wife and too kids who I'm love very much, the money is meening nothing to me, I don't wanting any trouble with the cops"!!!

Things to look out for

Bad English grammer and spellings! (see above quote for example, this was a direct copy from one of these e-mails!)

"Blocked" e-mail address's

Strange mention of family members- most ... ...read the full guide >>>