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My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 7:31am On Aug 16, 2023
Good day everyone.

At this point, I have no other option than to put this out here, and I pray I get a solution from here.

A friend ordered and paid for a phone and the vendor blocked her instead of delivering the phone.

I saw a post on Twitter where @Xiaomi_nigeria announced a reduction in the prices of Redmi 12C all through August.

A friend has been saving to get a phone, so I forwarded the post to her to see if she would be interested.
She got interested and I asked around for vendors online as we currently serve (we are corp members) in a remote village far away from any city where it is possible to get the phone in a store.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 7:39am On Aug 16, 2023
@Precious_baby76, a Twitter user recommended @ultimate_samphi, a phone dealer that supposedly sells Xiaomi phones.

I went to his page, and check through his previous post. I figured since he has been around for a while, he should be genuine.

I messaged the WhatsApp number he left on his bio, I enquired if he has the Redmi 12C for sale at the promo price.

I forwarded her details to my friend, and they talked. He said he does not accept payment on delivery but that he's genuine and can be trusted.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by Puss360(f): 7:41am On Aug 16, 2023
Hmmm.. Is dat their number up there?

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 7:46am On Aug 16, 2023
We took his word for it and placed the order. A big mistake. embarassed embarassed cry

She made the payment on Thursday. The payment was made to 8528492642,
Kizito Oguizu, @Sterling_Bankng. He promised she would receive the package on Friday or Saturday.

After waiting all through Saturday, we decided to check back on Sunday to know why the phone has not been delivered yet.

He complained about the vehicle bringing the phone breaking down somewhere and the need to fix it.

He promised to deliver on Monday or make a refund.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 7:47am On Aug 16, 2023
Puss360:
Hmmm.. Is dat their number up there?


This is his number +2347047143584

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 7:53am On Aug 16, 2023
On Monday, he blocked my friend on Twitter, stopped responding to her messages on WhatsApp, and stopped picking up her calls.

He has also since then blocked me on WhatsApp, and stopped responding to my message.

Attached is a picture of him I got off Twitter

This is his phone number +2347047143584.
According to his bio, his shop is located at No 7 Royal Market Road, Equare, Ekpoma.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 7:59am On Aug 16, 2023
Please, how can we reclaim the money paid to him? This money was gathered for several months. cry cry embarassed

Please beware of this page @ultimate_samphi on Twitter.

Lalasticlacla, Mynd44, Honsule, Puskin, and Dragnet, please help move to the front page for more reach.

Help us recover this money. embarassed embarassed cry

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by Puss360(f): 8:00am On Aug 16, 2023
DerKlassiker:


This is his number +2347047143584
Ok

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by advanceDNA: 8:00am On Aug 16, 2023
I dont understand how u pple are comfortable paying people u dont know for goods u have not seen and tested....

is it over-confidence?? trust?? Or witchcraft??

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 8:03am On Aug 16, 2023
advanceDNA:
I dont understand how u pple are comfortable paying people u don't know for goods u have not seen and tested...

is it over-confidence?? trust?? Or witchcraft??


I don't even know. embarassed cry
This is an eye-opener for me.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by Adewale1603(m): 8:34am On Aug 16, 2023
Whenever you see predefined or templates messages like this 'we are 100% trusted and legitimate....bla...bla... Run o. Or you see too much of officiality, like the seller quickly addressing you as 'sir' without even initially knowing you. Run o. And I'm still wondering how people play carelessly with their hard earned money, stranger o, someone you don't know from Adams

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by Okikiola914(m): 8:37am On Aug 16, 2023
You should have ordered it from Xiaomi store on Jumia.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by Adewale1603(m): 8:40am On Aug 16, 2023
It's too risky to be involving in ordering and purchasing things online now in this era, where internet scam, fraud is the order of the day. Though Some people are usually lucky to get away with it.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 8:44am On Aug 16, 2023
Adewale1603:
Whenever you see predefined or templates messages like this 'we are 100% trusted and legitimate....bla...bla... Run o. Or you see too much of officiality, like the seller quickly addressing you as 'sir' without even initially knowing you. Run o. And I'm still wondering how people play carelessly with their hard earned money, stranger o, someone you don't know from Adams


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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 8:50am On Aug 16, 2023
Okikiola914:
You should have ordered it from the Xiaomi store on Jumia.


I checked, but I couldn't find it there, that's why I went to ask on their thread on Twitter. embarassed

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by noobody(m): 9:10am On Aug 16, 2023
Samphill is a unrepentant fraudster,
If you search him on Facebook,you would see,
I wonder why he is still scamming people,
He is a fraud.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 9:14am On Aug 16, 2023
noobody:
Samphill is a unrepentant fraudster,
If you search him on Facebook,you would see,
I wonder why he is still scamming people,
He is a fraud.


Really? shocked
I didn't know that. Please, what kind I do?

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by noobody(m): 9:25am On Aug 16, 2023
The person who referred you is the same as samphill,that's the scope.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by noobody(m): 9:26am On Aug 16, 2023
DerKlassiker:


Really? shocked
I didn't know that. Please, what kind I do?

Report to Nigeria police,or accept thy fate,and move on,you have learnt a bitter lesson.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by udemzyudex(m): 10:21am On Aug 16, 2023
One thing I've learnt so far, you see any online deals with Benin as location, omo e better to go there in person.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 10:38am On Aug 16, 2023
noobody:


Report to Nigeria police,or accept thy fate,and move on,you have learnt a bitter lesson.


Alright, thanks. I'll report to the Nigeria police.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by Myzubby(m): 1:38pm On Aug 16, 2023
Ultimate samphil is a bigger scammer with pseudo accounts on all social media platforms.


He trolls people on Xiaomi Nigeria page

He will promise to offer pod if half of the money is sent .


We have seen and heard alot of complaints about him.


I pray you get your money back man.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 1:43pm On Aug 16, 2023
Myzubby:
Ultimate samphil is a bigger scammer with pseudo accounts on all social media platforms.


He trolls people on Xiaomi Nigeria page

He will promise to offer pod if half of the money is sent .


We have seen and heard alot of complaints about him.


I pray you get your money back man.


Amen. Thank you.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by Balablue64: 2:17pm On Aug 16, 2023
So you couldn't see anything useful to do with 63k na to carry am go pay scammer wen u never even you never receive goods sef.
63k is to small it can barely buy a bottle of rozay or moet with peppery asun so just forget it let the brother man use it to cool his temper

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by CarlosTheJackal: 3:19pm On Aug 16, 2023
DerKlassiker:


Really? shocked
I didn't know that. Please, what kind I do?
Take every transaction details and report to his bank. Send a mail to his bank and copy CBN fraud desk. His BVN will be locked and he can't do any transaction until he pays you.

Escalate it on Twitter and tag Irukera the Federal Consumer boss

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by DerKlassiker: 4:00pm On Aug 16, 2023
CarlosTheJackal:
Take every transaction details and report to his bank. Send a mail to his bank and copy CBN fraud desk. His BVN will be locked and he can't do any transaction until he pays you.

Escalate it on Twitter and tag Irukera the Federal Consumer boss


Thank you. I'll try this out.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by JasonNOTStatham: 5:10pm On Aug 16, 2023
DerKlassiker:
Please, how can we reclaim the money paid to him? This money was gathered for several months. cry cry embarassed

Please beware of this page @ultimate_samphi on Twitter.

Lalasticlacla, Mynd44, Honsule, Puskin, and Dragnet, please help move to the front page for more reach.

Help us recover this money. embarassed embarassed cry
Use another account to reach out to the user, tell him that you would like to use him as a reseller and want to deliver some goods (phones). Praise him for his influence and all that... Be serious, show proof that you have the goods and tell him how you would deliver it to him, act like a fool and say if he can sell 10 or 20, you would give him more... Make inquiry if he sells laptops or just anything to draw his attention.
If you can get the delivery address for a meet up, good otherwise it is difficult. sad

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by ronalmagic10(m): 6:57pm On Aug 16, 2023
At op, print out all your conversations with him. Go to his bank and report him. Also go to the police station.

You will get your money back. Pls don't let this slide cos I can see he's an unrepentant scammer. He must pay for his sins

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by Rickmann: 1:16am On Aug 17, 2023
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DerKlassiker:
Good day everyone.

At this point, I have no other option than to put this out here, and I pray I get a solution from here.

A friend ordered and paid for a phone and the vendor blocked her instead of delivering the phone.

I saw a post on Twitter where @Xiaomi_nigeria announced a reduction in the prices of Redmi 12C all through August.

A friend has been saving to get a phone, so I forwarded the post to her to see if she would be interested.
She got interested and I asked around for vendors online as we currently serve (we are corp members) in a remote village far away from any city where it is possible to get the phone in a store.

But how do you people take such risks in this country. Omo, I can't trust anyone .

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by Nobody: 1:56am On Aug 17, 2023
DerKlassiker:
@Precious_baby76, a Twitter user recommended @ultimate_samphi, a phone dealer that supposedly sells Xiaomi phones.

I went to his page, and check through his previous post. I figured since he has been around for a while, he should be genuine.

I messaged the WhatsApp number he left on his bio, I enquired if he has the Redmi 12C for sale at the promo price.

I forwarded her details to my friend, and they talked. He said he does not accept payment on delivery but that he's genuine and can be trusted.

With your university level you still dey behave like zombie. He said he does not accept payment on delivery? And you still get time dey chat with that criminal. Continue trusting him until your eyes clear

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by CarlosTheJackal: 11:21pm On Aug 17, 2023
DerKlassiker:


Thank you. I'll try this out.
Important Information

GET ANY MONEY YOU TRANSFER MISTAKENLY BACK. NO HIDING PLACE FOR FRAUD IN NIGERIA ANY MORE/

In case you mistakenly transfered Money to wrong account and the account refused to refund your money or owner blocked you?

Or you are duped through your bank account?

and then later realized that you have been scammed

For or a mistake on your part? And the receiving bank is not cooperating?

HOW TO RETRIEVE YOUR MONEY AFTER YOUR WRONG TRANSFER

Please read this careful and share

Many people don't always know what to do, so today am sharing with you things you do, when you realize a the person you paid for a service or goods is avoiding you:

1. Write out the Full name and account number of the page or person.

2. Go to the last notification your bank sent you after you made the payment (via mobile app or text) copy out the "TRANSACTION ID NUMBER".

3. Go to any branch of the scam artist's bank (the bank you transferred to), ask to see the CUSTOMER SERVICE in charge of FRAUD.

While you are there, send an email to SCAMMER'S BANK or the d bank u wrongly paid to and copy
CBN FRAUD DESK. (anticorruptionunit@cbn.gov.ng) n also cpd@cbn.gov.ng
& contactcbn@cbn.gov.ng, this will ginger the bank to take it up fast.

What should you expect from this?
The culprit/suspects account will be PLACED ON HOLD. His BVN will be blocked permanently. No account will ever be opened neither will he be able to transact banking business in that name until he clears himself with the bank.

Meaning he/she cannot transfer or withdraw until they visit the bank, and when they do, the bank will contact the police and the suspect when proven guilty will sign a waiver allowing the bank to refund your money.

Endeavour to Share because you never can tell who it might help.

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Re: My Experience With An Online Phone Purchase Scam by uncleck: 4:04pm On Aug 18, 2023
99% of those jumia promo on Facebook are scam

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