You know I listed my XBox 360 Premium console on eBay about seven days ago… last night, it sold on eBay for around $320. I was pretty excited, since that’s way more than I was expecting to get for it. So I went to bed, hoping the payment would come in that night or this morning.

I awoke to find an e-mail in my mailbox from eBay, explaining that the auction had been cancelled:

Uhm, what? If I’m reading that right, the entire auction is now deleted because someone let their account get comprimised, and illegal bids were placed via that account? Why not just BLOCK THE ACCOUNT, then? Why did you have to remove my entire auction? It literally doesn’t show up on the site anymore. I have no way of knowing who else might have bid on it, to do a “second chance” offer. Now I have to re-list it and wait yet another seven days to see the results.

To top it off, I got e-mails from the scammer(s) themselves, the first one faking a Paypal receipt:

Yeah, that looks legit, buddy. And look, it’s our friends from NIGERIA. I like how it says that it must be on it’s way to Nigeria “under 24 hrs”. Looking at the message header, it’s coming from belider1@gmail.com. And here’s the other e-mail they sent me, apparently from a Yahoo account this time, belider_w1@yahoo.com:

*sigh* Whoever you are, scammer, you need to get a life. Or maybe first, get a job. No, no, wait. First, find Christ. Then a job. Then the life will follow it. Yeah, that’s the ticket.