PayPal scam
Submitted by OLD BANGA on Thu, 2013-05-23 20:01
I have my Stacer Runabout for sale on Fishwrecked and Gumtree, I have just had contact from krhowes9@gmail.com wishing to purchase the boat and asking a few questions and then agreeing to a price but would only pay through PayPal and was not interested in looking at the boat before the purchas, that is when I started to think something was not right. I advised the supposed purchaser that I was only interested in a cash sale or EFT transaction, I have not heard from the buyer since. Just be cautios if selling any item and the purchaser is willing to purchase site unseen and wants to pay via PayPal.
Cheers
Old Banga!
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OLD BANGA
bear
Posts: 184
Date Joined: 30/03/06
Pass on the info to PayPal
Pass on the info to PayPal and the cops. Same happened to me and they are keeping info on it.
Bruce
Posts: 527
Date Joined: 11/04/12
"email me the firm price and
"email me the firm price and condition. if you don't have a pay pall account, please set one up at paypal.com" I've never posted an ad and not received scam bullcrappa!
catchalittle
Posts: 1875
Date Joined: 04/09/08
I have had the same thing
I have had the same thing happened and followed up to get more info of another scam like that and passed the matter on to some mates in NSW where the scam was being done through and low and behold the bloke had a visit from the boys in blue and is now in custody one down many to go
Nathan
Doooma
Posts: 791
Date Joined: 05/12/09
Nah mate, She's LOADED!!!
Nah mate, She's LOADED!!! She offered to buy mine to yesterday!!!! lol
Justo82
Posts: 482
Date Joined: 17/10/11
yeah, real dodgy. They make
yeah, real dodgy. They make the payment to you so it shows up in your paypal account. Then they reverse the transaction. It takes a couple of days for your account to show the reversal, and in that time they've taken delivery of your goods and done a runner.
I never use paypal, and always meet the person I'm buying off, or selling to.
squidder
Posts: 457
Date Joined: 03/09/10
Happened
to me on this site, sent the money and hey presto, user pulls the pin.
Rocktron
Posts: 66
Date Joined: 08/02/13
heres what you do
i have had heaps of these scammers contact me. forward all the emails on to the following and paypal will investigate:
phishing@paypal.com.au and they will send you an email notifying you that they have received your email and will be investigating
OLD BANGA
Posts: 267
Date Joined: 02/04/10
PayPal Scam
Thanks Rocktron, I will follow your advice and dob them in, pity there are these types of people around, they are just parasites.
Cheers
Old Banga!
OLD BANGA
Pob
Posts: 359
Date Joined: 13/10/10
I sold one of my kayaks on
I sold one of my kayaks on gumtree a while ago, think I was getting five scam emails to every genuine one, reported the first couple but you just get different ones, never bloody ends!
Doooma
Posts: 791
Date Joined: 05/12/09
They usually send me an sms
They usually send me an sms asking me to email them back at some gmail account and not through gumtree..
fishRamma
Posts: 195
Date Joined: 04/02/08
Yeah i got the same thing
Yeah i got the same thing last night,never bothered replying.
viperdevil
Posts: 9
Date Joined: 09/05/13
How this scam works?
The pretendender buyer contacts saying they are interested in the item and they are ok with the price and without inspection of the items they say they can only make paypal payment as they are overseas or interstate with no acces to bank due to remote locaation etc and you receive a mail from paypal that someone has sent you money and ask you to login to view details....
this email looks genuine and innocent victims login to paypal via that link and th page auto closes after loggin in so the seller ends up opening the paypal account via another browser to see no funds in the account........that fake website the scammer builds receives your paypal account and they withdraw money from you linked bank accounts.
so always remember do not open any bank/paypal links via links on email......always open brand new window and trye the url in manually.
How do i know all this? I got scammed by one of these pricks and reported to paypal.