SELLERS BEWARE, PAYPAL SCAM!

[typhoidfvr]

I am trying to sell my 2010 Camaro when I got an email from a lady wanting to buy it for her husband's birthday. She said she was an Oceanographer at sea and did not have a dedicated phone line but kept in communication by email. She stated she had put $34000 in my paypal account but the check was being held for five days for verification. I was asking $32000 for my car , but the extra $2000 was for delivery charges. She then instructed me to send the $2000 to her delivery guy and they would come get the car.
Luckily, I was tipped off to this scam and checked everything through paypal. She had sent a bogus paypal transaction email to me explaining the deposit and verification (email looked completely legit from paypal but went to my spam folder which tipped me off as well).
I took all her information and turned it over to paypal, but just thought I would warn the sellers in this forum as well. The trick is you send them $2000 of your own money while waiting for the verification and then they pull a Keyser Sose'.

[Midnight Rat]

Same thing happened when i was selling furniture. They said they would pay a extra 50 over the price for holding the furniture since they were out of town. Asked for my address so they could send the money to. Yeah right.

[LIM3]

same happen when i was selling a life size bronze horse. the sender actually had the nerve to send me harassing messages stating she will call the cops and FBI on me if i didnt pay

[45thCamaro]

When the 360 first came out, I had 2 that I sold on eBay. I had then on Craigslist at first but the amount of bs emails I got was unbelievable. Any story you could think of. A father who was in Iraq was sending me extra money for the 360 to ship it to his son. Then I had a person send me such a fake email from the" us post service"the spelling was terrible and it even had pictures of the twin towers burning down in a gif, pics of an American bald eagle, and another 2 gifs of someone flipping $100 bills.

The latest is the western union scam. I played into it once, I gave the person my address and I was suppose to get a western union chel and I was suppose to deposit it into an account or send it or whatever and keep 200 for myself. The person sent the western union check but it was so fake I laughed and threw it in the garbage. A lot of it comes from 3rd world countries where they are trying to trip is off and they can't speak or type proper English.

[Jonster]

lets be honest...anyone who says they will pay more than what is listed is clearly a scam.

[=Stephens=]

I got the same thing selling my motorcycle. Craigslist is a haven for scammers.

[Angrybird 12]

I always wait for the PayPal to clear before shipping anything. Always verify all Paypal transactions by checking your account after receiving any PayPal e-mail.

[typhoidfvr]

I wonder how often this actually works on people. The phone number they used was out of California.

[Angrybird 12]

Originally Posted by typhoidfvr

I wonder how often this actually works on people. The phone number they used was out of California.

It must work on quite a few people since they do it all the time and its been going on for years. You would think people would have more common sense than to fall for crap like that....
Like I saw on TV the other night, maybe people today need a class on common sense.

[steveo9043]

It happened to my cousin selling his motorcycle. He got a cashiers check and was skeptical so went to the bank. The bank checked it out and said it was fine. Cashed it for him, he sent the money and then paid off the loan. 2 days later police knocked on his door to arrest him for "producing a fake check". He had all the emails and everything to cover him but the bank wanted there money back. He is red flagged on his credit report for 7 years.

[typhoidfvr]

Originally Posted by steveo9043

It happened to my cousin selling his motorcycle. He got a cashiers check and was skeptical so went to the bank. The bank checked it out and said it was fine. Cashed it for him, he sent the money and then paid off the loan. 2 days later police knocked on his door to arrest him for "producing a fake check". He had all the emails and everything to cover him but the bank wanted there money back. He is red flagged on his credit report for 7 years.

Wow! I always heard buyer beware, but now I guess it's seller beware too!

[Wantconvertible]

Old trick

[62nalide]

Originally Posted by Wantconvertible

Old trick

yup been around for a while hope someone really doesn't fall for it :/

[Blue17CamaroZL1]

I unfortunately fell for a scam like this many many years ago

It was for my DJ business. Luckily it wasn't too bad, but lesson learned.