Less than 5 hours after a text message about shipping a wedding dress to Africa I got a second text message on the same wedding dress.

301-778-7322
"Hello, is your dress still available for sale ? let me know the asking Price, pls don't text or call back coz am at work, email at johnlipton001@gmail.com"

This is a kijiji ad posted in a small Ontario Canada town.  Odds of 2 people from US calling on the same day is too strange for me.

I won't email back and I have no intention of following up... just a gut feeling.

Typical Nigerian Scam for an item I had placed and ad online.....



From: "johnlipton001@gmail.com" <johnlipton001@gmail.com>
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:25:01 AM
Subject: Re: Rims and tires

Hello

Thanks for getting back to me, i am John Lipton by Name i have gone
through your advertisement and I'm happy with the condition and the
price,i'm buying this item for my Daughter and due to the nature of my
job and location i will not be able to come
for inspection I'm currently working overseas so I wont be able to
come and do things personally,

As for the payment i can only pay via PayPal online secure payment, I
insisted on paypal because i don't have access to my bank account
online as i don't have internet banking, but i can pay from my paypal
account, as i  have my bank a/c attached to it  If you could just send
me a paypal payment invoice or create an account at www.paypal.com if
you don't already have one


I have a private courier agent that will come for the pick up after
the payment has been made so no shipping included, I will make a
confirmed pick up arrangement with my Courier shipping agent who will
be coming over for pick up once you receive full payment into your
PayPal account. My shipping agent will handle everything perfectly
whenever they come for the pick up.

Please can you provide me with the following information:

PayPal Email Address
Full Name
All Total Cost
Contact Mobile Number
Country

As soon as you get back to me with the info I will make the payment
and instruct my agent for pick up. Excited to be dealing with you.

John Lipton...

=====================================================

Please note that this email was sent to me from the following IP address location....


IP Lookup Result for 209.85.219.67
IP Address:    209.85.219.67
Host of this IP:    mail-oa0-f67.google.com
Organization:    Google
ISP:    Google
City:    Mountain View
Country:    United States
State:    California
Postal Code:    94043
Timezone:    America/Los_Angeles
Local Time:    08.08.2013 01:08:00


This person does have an internet track record for this scam.....


http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-301-778-7322

http://the-colloquium.blogspot.ca/2009/04/nig ... using-fake.html

http://www.sports2k.com/forum/index.php?/topic/13018-justa-head-up-for-scam/

http://m.olx.be/item/list_comments/36070750

Yes, he tried that on me too! Whit a Add in Kijiji...for some tires! Same e-mail as you...so lame.



Hello

Thanks for getting back to me, i am John Lipton by Name i have gone through your advertisement and I'm happy with the condition and the price,i'm buying this item for my Daughter and due to the nature of my job and location i will not be able to come for inspection I'm currently working overseas so I wont be able to come and do things personally,

As for the payment i can only pay via PayPal online secure payment, I insisted on paypal because i don't have access to my bank account online as i don't have internet banking, but i can pay from my paypal account, as i  have my bank a/c attached to it  If you could just send me a paypal payment invoice or create an account at www.paypal.com if you don't already have one


I have a private courier agent that will come for the pick up after the payment has been made so no shipping included, I will make a confirmed pick up arrangement with my Courier shipping agent who will be coming over for pick up once you receive full payment into your PayPal account. My shipping agent will handle everything perfectly whenever they come for the pick up.

Please can you provide me with the following information:

PayPal Email Address
Full Name
All Total Cost
Contact Mobile Number
Country

As soon as you get back to me with the info I will make the payment and instruct my agent for pick up. Excited to be dealing with you.

John Lipton...

I received the exact text and email from the same John Lipton...I figured it was a scam...amazing, word for word! Maybe I am naive but what's the scam....I thought Paypal was secure?

I got the same text and email from John Lipton too yesterday after I posted an ad in kijiji for a dress for sake too! I'm going to keep stringing him along and telling him ill get the info he wants ASAP. 2 can play this game! He's such an idiot. Don't fall for this scam.