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Windsor, ON Friday July 11th, 2014 at 11:04 AM

SCAMMMER PLEASE READ EVERYONE!

Please be very aware of a scammer on kijiji.
Yesterday i posted my iPhone 5 on kijiji, and this person had texted me in response to my post saying that she would pay 500$ to ship the phone to her son in quebec, and i didn't think anything of it because I've been having a rough week and i thought i was about to have good luck. I originally posted i wanted 350$ for it and she offered to pay 50$ more for the phone and 100$ to ship it over night. Originally they wanted me to use paypal but i didn't have a pay pal so i suggested Etransfer. And at first it seemed pretty legit, but then the second email i got from them (ETRANSFER) was that they were having a server error and it would take up to 24 hrs and at this point it started clicking in my head that THIS IS A SCAM, i wasn't getting money and it says 24 hrs because by the time 24 hrs is up they will have the phone. I then searched the 646 number on google and THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT THIS PERSON HAS TRIED TO SCAM SOMEONE they have tried to scam people on craiglist, kijiji etc and it is actually a google voice number, they switched the number because they thought i would forget about it and i wouldn't look it up; they knew that the 562 number wouldn't show up on google as a scammer number. After filing a police report and stoping my parcel the person texted me this morning also trying to say that etransfer couldn't deposit money in my interac account because my limit is apparently lower than 500$ and i don't have a business account so they would have to give me another 500$ to expand my limit, bringing my account to 1000!

The numbers they were texting me from 646-807-8293, and then she had said her phone was dead and she was going to text me from her husbands and the number was then 562-248-6609. The email they used to send me the etransfer is mattewmitri@gmail.com.
The etransfer email that you should be aware of is, Notifcation@payment-interac.ca & & shopping post@in.com.
The address they wanted me to send the phone :
Name:David Bosquet
Address: 871 Cartier, Longueuil, Canada, J4K4C3

^ they probably won't use they same mailing info if any at all.

FORTUNATELY i was able to stop my parcel from getting in the persons hands, and I'm hoping you will read this and will do the same if it happens to you or anyone else. Hoping this will help another individual that is trying to sell there item on Facebook.

LOOK FOR THE HINTS AND THE SIGNS.

PLEASE BE AWARE, AND DO NOT FALL FOR THIS!

In the picture is what the email might look like from 'Etransfer'

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