Help me catch a scammer - lots of information within

I recently had a run-in with a scammer, and I'm hoping someone can help me turn him in, with a little information. This started when I posted a Craigslist ad for an XBOX 360 console package. He responded saying he wanted to pay me through Western Union, which I refused. He also asked me to ship to London, saying it was for his "son" and urgent. I told him I'd only accept PayPal. He agreed and I sent him a money request. He responded with a bogus PayPal e-mail (confirmed bogus by PayPal) which claimed he sent me $660 via PayPal. My guess is he hoped I wouldn't check the account and I'd just send him the console package.

After calling him on his attempted fraud, telling him I have his IP and telling him I would report him to the authorities, he sent me this response:

"my man,
have u ever heard of anonymiser? thats not my ip prick. Save ur fone bills and carry on with ur life. dis isnt personal it was just buisness ok."

The e-mail address he used for this is chriswoods609@aol.co.uk.

I called AOL to report the fraud and they claimed that user name is not valid, so it may be a spoof address. Here is the header of the last e-mail he sent me to my Gmail account:

Received: by 10.114.39.7 with SMTP id m7cs450798wam;
        Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:00:22 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.70.48.1 with SMTP id v1mr754018wxv.64.1200513621983;
        Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:00:21 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <chriswoods609@aol.co.uk>
Received: from imo-m19.mx.aol.com (imo-m19.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.11])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTP id i11si2189723wxd.8.2008.01.16.12.00.21;
        Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:00:21 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 64.12.137.11 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of chriswoods609@aol.co.uk) client-ip=64.12.137.11;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 64.12.137.11 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of chriswoods609@aol.co.uk) smtp.mail=chriswoods609@aol.co.uk
Received: from chriswoods609@aol.co.uk
	by imo-m19.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r9.3.) id o.bf7.263c645e (57868)
	 for <removed>; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:00:16 -0500 (EST)
Received: from MBLK-M02 (mblk-m02.mblk.aol.com [64.12.136.35]) by air-ia01.mail.aol.com (v121.4) with ESMTP id MAILINIA12-e20c478e624f2b0; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:00:15 -0500
References: <8CA250762AE86AB-CC0-4B3@WEBMAIL-MA08.sysops.aol.com>	 <A77B7061-A7E0-4680-B9D4-CFF3A9540C8E@gmail.com>	 <8CA251BBDAA24E0-36C-30CA@mblk-d32.sysops.aol.com>	 <ebfffb820801141649l2d4b640cy62dcc6322f6fd981@mail.gmail.com>	 <8CA252862C2D344-748-2DE@mblk-d32.sysops.aol.com>	 <ebfffb820801142128v207e522la39eeadb65ab9720@mail.gmail.com>	 <8CA255DE5913F7C-B38-9EC@webmail-de20.sysops.aol.com>	 <ebfffb820801142320v2515cf63oafbf0da6f59522fd@mail.gmail.com>	 <ebfffb820801150742o24d6e102k14dfd1e9418ba4ef@mail.gmail.com>	 <8CA264D2AC863D8-368-3318@webmail-da14.sysops.aol.com> <ebfffb820801160545i6896f032rb65d5dfde0a2e432@mail.gmail.com>
To: danceology@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Interested...Mint XBOX 360 w/ 10 games, DVD, 2 wire/wired controllers,
 wireless NIC - $580
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:00:14 -0500
X-AOL-IP: 83.229.5.132
In-Reply-To: <ebfffb820801160545i6896f032rb65d5dfde0a2e432@mail.gmail.com>
X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: chriswoods609@aol.co.uk
X-MB-Message-Type: User
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
 boundary="--------MB_8CA26918B20891D_10F4_1EF4_MBLK-M02.sysops.aol.com"
X-Mailer: AIM WebMail 33706-STANDARD
Received: from 83.229.5.132 by MBLK-M02.sysops.aol.com (64.12.136.35) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:00:10 -0500
Message-Id: <8CA26918B20891D-10F4-F64@MBLK-M02.sysops.aol.com>
X-Spam-Flag: NO

Code (markup):

Is there any way I can find out what this person's real information is? I assume he actually lives in London, since he wanted the package shipped there.

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I want to turn this guy in before he tries to scam someone else.

 

Try IP to location and see where it goes, if it's near london then it might not be a spoof IP. If I were you I would have just carried on with the detail till you had his address. Besides, I wouldnt deal with someone whos grammar was as terrible as that.

-H.

 

What do you mean by IP to location?

And yea, in hindsight I should have followed through until I had his address. Too late for that now unfortunately.

 

83.229.5.132

Country: Nigeria
City: Port Harcourt

 

Is that his info? How did you get that?

 

check this IP at,

http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

 

Hmm, but can I be sure that's his correct IP address?

Thanks for the link!

 

Basically, he's the biggest scammer!

 

probably it is real IP, because most of scammers from Nigera, i'm sorry but i think you can not do much about it.

 

I can't help you but I just want to say good go on not falling in his trap. It's assholes like these that make us weary of every online transaction we make.

 

Yea, I still want to see if there's anything I can do though.

How did he fake his e-mail address?

Also, why would he want the XBOX shipped to London if he's in Nigeria?

 

some companies provide mail or package forwarding service, can you tell us only street address, not full address details.

 

Maybe it was sold on?

 

If I had any of his address details, I would share it here. Unfortunately, I called him on his scam before he gave me the address. I should have waited a little longer. I was just too mad

Hecky: what do you mean by "sold on"?

 

theres nothing you can do just forget about it. The guys from nigera and they always do this, same laws don't apply to them and since you din't actually ship the package you have case anyway just move on.

 

There's a lot I can still do, and I'm sure I can find a way. No, I'm not going to "forget about it".

 

Let me put it this way since you din't like the nice way of telling you...

Nobody cares, even if you told this to the police in nigeria they would laugh at you. FORGET IT or waste your time.

 

You cannot do much because he lives in Nigeria.

And don't worry about it, scammers from Nigeria are very infamous on many websites. For instance, many sellers on ebay just don't ship to Nigeria at all.

 

I wonder why you're so adamant about me dropping it. What do you care if I "waste my time"? Maybe you like to pull the same kind of crap this guy does? You kind of sound like this now:

"Save ur fone bills and carry on with ur life."

Leave this thread, you have no place here.

 

I don't ship outside of the US In this case, it wasn't through eBay, so I was willing to give it a shot.