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Scammer using paypal on cl now?

blackoutgsxr

blackoutgsxr

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Received this today for my CL ad...

Hi thanks for mailing, i am a marine engineer, i am at sea right now.
I'm buying this for my In-law and willing to offer you
the asking price. I can only make payment through PayPal at the moment
as i don't have access to my bank account online(i don't have internet
banking with it), but i have it attached to my PayPal account, and
this is why i insist on using PayPal for the payment. All i will need
is your PayPal email address to make the payment, and if you don't
have a PayPal account, you can set one up on *www.paypal.com. **its
easy and fast in getting an account with PayPal. Kindly get back to me
with your PayPal email to proceed with the payment I have a pick up
agent that will come for the pick up after the payment might have been
made.
Kindly get back to me asap..
God bless you.
Jim
 
The tone of the email sounds ultra-fishy.

They might pick up your bike and then reverse the payment? Unless you have proof the account owner took the bike, you're out the bike and your money.

Or it could be another variation on the "Oh silly me, I sent you $4000 instead of $3000, please paypal the $1000 extra back". Then they cancel the initial payment to you, leaving you $1000, or whatever the numbers really are, out of pocket.

Beware.
 
blackoutgsxr said:
Kindly get back to me
with your PayPal email to proceed with the payment I have a pick up
agent that will come for the pick up after the payment might have been
made.
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A pick up agent for Craigslist?

and "after the payment MIGHT have been made."

Scam or not, this guy's an idiot.
 
limey said:
Or it could be another variation on the "Oh silly me, I sent you $4000 instead of $3000, please paypal the $1000 extra back". Then they cancel the initial payment to you, leaving you $1000, or whatever the numbers really are, out of pocket.

Beware.
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That would be clever.

And yes very fishy... He wants to purchase for his in-law?
 
I've had these before. Yes they will send you a copy of a paypal reciept but it's fake. I can photo shop a fake payment if you want.
 
Had a tonne of scammers answering some ads I placed to rent out housing. Lots from Africa, probably those damn Nigerians again!
 
sidewazzz said:
I've had these before. Yes they will send you a copy of a paypal reciept but it's fake. I can photo shop a fake payment if you want.
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I've had a similar situation where the buyer (for an iPhone) sent me something through Paypal that requested payment, but it looked as if a payment was made. This was about a year and a half ago, so Paypal might've changed the way they set this up so it can't happen again, but if not, that's definitely a possibility here.
 
It is definitely a scammer.

There are a number of flags in there but any time the word 'agent' is used, you can be certain you are dealing with an overseas scammer.

In this case, you are likely to actually receive the payment in your account and hand over the bike at which point the payment would be reversed and taken out of your PayPal account. Your only recourse is to contest the chargeback but since the "agent" isn't the actually buyer and didn't leave you with any evidence that the bike was actually picked up by the buyer, you have no proof of your claim. Bike is long gone and there is nothing you can do about it.
 
Dianoetic said:
I've had a similar situation where the buyer (for an iPhone) sent me something through Paypal that requested payment, but it looked as if a payment was made. This was about a year and a half ago, so Paypal might've changed the way they set this up so it can't happen again, but if not, that's definitely a possibility here.
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It's pretty fun. Last time year ago or so, I told them my account was something like suckmyballz@udumbass.com. He said he made the payment, I told him I didn't see anything. Then he sent the reciept that showed payment to suckmyballz@udumbass.com but it was fake:laughing
 
blackoutgsxr said:
Good to know fellas thanks.
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I'm waiting to hear back from one right now. Apparently there is $6.5m US that is comming my way because some fella died with the same last name as me.
 
msethhunter said:
I'm waiting to hear back from one right now. Apparently there is $6.5m US that is coming my way because some fella died with the same last name as me.
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was he a Nigerian prince? :rofl

this has scam written all over it! the fact that you feel that you need to ask others in a thread is evidence enough bro! trust those gut feelings!

i was scammed out of $3200 through ebay when i was 19. nothing to do with paypal but the way the emails read were of the same nature as yours.
 
Marines don't ask you to kindly do things. They would never spell Marine with a lowercase m either.
 
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Damn Nigerians are clever but do not translate well, that makes them sound hokey.
 
I think they are just trying to figure out a way to phish your paypal info with that one.. probably send you a fake payment, you click on the link to get your money, then they take you to a fake site and enter your password/name and then they have access to your paypal account.
 
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