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Comment on Apparently you can get scammed using PayPal and Gmail by teri

teri — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:24:14 +0000

Sadly, there is that poor fool somewhere out there that would fall for this and ship that rig out of their own pocket.

The way the paypal works is sellers get paid first, and then they ship.

The way the SCAM works is the seller gets paid first, ships the item, but the buyer is using a bogus credit card that gives the seller money up front, then screws them three weeks later when paypal discovers it’s a crap credit card.

The cleverness of criminals in this world is certainly on the downslide. This guy must be a noob…

Comment on Apparently you can get scammed using PayPal and Gmail by Dyan Gunnlaugson

Dyan Gunnlaugson — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:17:40 +0000

I am selling an El Camino through Craigslist. I just had a guy with 2 names??? want to purchase my car and have it shipped to the UK???? He wanted it paid through PayPal and where Paypal would release his money to me after delivery. Come on buddy . . . that’s a bit of a scam stretch to have that ridiculously heavy car shipped to the UK from Canada! He went by both Mike Tommy and Mike Terry.

Comment on Two Xboxes, one router: Making UPnP work using DD-WRT or Tomato by john smith

john smith — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:37:16 +0000

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Comment on Apparently you can get scammed using PayPal and Gmail by teri

teri — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:20:19 +0000

Oh my, say Buh-bye!

Just the standard Nigerian poor grammar is the biggest tip-off.

Then he calls it a ‘product’ instead of what the item is, a router. That is so he can send out the email multiple times and never have to edit it.

Finally, he could buy a router from China for a normal price and get it to his son more quickly, **IF** he had a legitimate credit card/bank account.

Pry him off, tell him you will not ship offshore.

Good call calvin!

Comment on Apparently you can get scammed using PayPal and Gmail by calvin

calvin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:39:33 +0000

I think i’m being scammed as well. This was the email that i received from a buyer from US for just a wireless router. That itself got me thinking why would a person pay so much for delivery charges for such a common item.

Mr. Steve Cole to sale-mbq7p-158.
show details Feb 10 (1 day ago)
** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY — AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY
** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home
** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping
** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

I view this beautiful product and i want to buy it for my son ….so i
want you to tell me the cost of the product because my son need it
urgent. so i want you to mail me fast as soon as possible ..

Regards.

Mr. Steve Cole to me
show details 10:01 PM (23 hours ago)
Hello, Thanks for the mail and i will like to tell you that Mr
Steve Cole is my Name from U.S.A and i will like you to go ahead and
calculate the total cost of the item including the shipping cost
through POST OFFICE to my Son Address for is programmed in college and
send me the information below for the transfer to be made fully. i
want you to give me the total cost,and get me back how many product
you have for sale,

Here is the Information Needed For Payment:
Account Holder Name……
Account Number…………
Bank Name…………..
Bank Address…………
Country…………….
your mail…………..
Item Name………….
Total Cost…………….

This is the shipping address:
Name : David Sola
Address: No 8 Ago Ilorin Street Mokola
City: Ibadan
State: Oyo

Get back to me as soon as possible.

Regards.

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christopher — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:44:07 +0000

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Abatha — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:29:51 +0000

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Comment on Two Xboxes, one router: Making UPnP work using DD-WRT or Tomato by smithers

smithers — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:55:05 +0000

I have both Xbox’s configured using static DHCP. Both connect to live however one shows Strict. The router see’s both connections:

DHCP Clients
Host Name IP Address MAC Address Client Lease Time
curtisXBOX 192.168.1.xxx 00:22:48:4B:xx:xx Static
PetesXBOX 192.168.1.xxx 00:17:FA:B0:xx:xx Static

The uPNP tab only shows the first xbox:
Xbox (192.168.1.135:3074) 3074 UDP Yes 3074 3074 192.168.1.135 UDP

Why is uPNP only working with one xbox? I am running Firmware: DD-WRT v24 (05/24/08) micro