Nigeria wedding ring scam
A young couple is now out $2,500 dollars after being scammed by a scammer out of Nigeria where scams are growing increasingly popular.
The couple needed cash and so they placed their diamond wedding ring for sale on KSL.com. The buyer responded from Nigeria stating that after they sent the ring he or she would send the payment though PayPal.
The Cox couple were from a small town and liked to think the best of people so it not even occur to them to worry about being scammed, which is precisely what happened unfortunately after they decide to sell the ring to help get money for their two young children.
Minnie Cox said the ring was a princess cut with a little diamond inside. Although the pictures were not clear on the website, they soon received an email from a woman who claimed to be from Utah who said that she wanted the ring but was leaving soon on a business trip.
The scammer asked the couple to ship it to Africa claiming that she would add the price of the additional shipping onto the PayPal payment.
Colten Cox said that he had a lot of trust in people growing up in people and thought nothing of it until four days later when they still had not received payment and after a call to PayPal learned they had been scammed.
According to the Cox?s they are still making payments on the ring which makes the situation even worse, but they are trying to track the ring which is in New York somewhere and if they manage to get hold of a post office employee they may be able to get it back.
After all of this, the couple says they will still be trusting but more carefully, and Minnie said she has learned her lesson never to send anything to Nigeria.
