Are scammers destroying Ebay.

[Sputnik II]

Sold a phone on Ebay the other day, Winning bidder has no feedback and bearing in mind I stated shipping to UK only. Have now got an email from this person (scammer) :-

Dear seller,
i am happy to be informed that i won your item. I am really committed in buying your item as a result of bidding and am sure today is going to be the happiest day in my life because i have made the proimse of getting this item for my sister, a lawyer as a profeesion who is doing her 60th Birthday and she is located in the Nothern part of Nigeria, Kwara state. But i did not believe i could get your item won, because i have searched every where to get this paticular product in which you have for sale on ebay. Am paying via paypal as means of my payment, and i have contacted the Royal mail to know how much they post and package to Nigeria and i got reply that it costs 15-20 pounds so am paying via paypal.
Please, i will like the first class mail for the posting of the item to Nigeria so as to meet the Birthdate of the Birthday, and i think Royalmail will be best for the posting.
Get back to me asap for the invoice to make the payment so that the payment is made asap, thanks very much i'm really greatful and God bless you. (amen)
The below address is where she stays in Nigeria.

 

[Sputnik II]

I actually get annoyed with the amount of fake stuff being sold on ebay.

for example do a search on diesel jeans or sony memory cards. Very few are the real thing.

There was someone the other day with an ad for Microsoft Office 2003 but, when you read the ad carefully what they where actually trying to sell was Open office. Dodgy ad's like that should not be allowed as its very misleading and some people tend to fall for these traps. He was charging a high price for it to.