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same thing again happened to me today via gumtree in belfast ni, got a message that the guy was interested in my car etc etc he was at sea wanted to get a surprise gift for his son, seems ok and seeing paypal is meant to be secure all looks ok initially. until he starts to mention extras on top for a pick up agent, can you help him etc, anyways this is a SCAM!!! he is was under the name of richard lewendon this time. ridiculous behaviour! seems a shame that he hasn't been caught when this is clearly ongoing, transnational criminal activity affecting many people. thank god there is some wit not to follow through with this but it is reasonably convincing. he's using the email address [email protected].

Tried it on with me, an 18 year old whom I am selling a car for quite a bit of money. He tried a very convincing tactic with me. He was under Richard Lewendon and wanted me to pocket out £400.00 to the post office to a certain address to the Western Union and tried to send me email messages making out that he was PayPal. On the fake emails that he sent me pretending to be PayPal, it said the outstanding payment of £4,600.00 was pending and it would only come through once I paid the £400.00 to the Union. I looked on my real PayPal and there was no transaction from this guy what so ever. If there isn't on the main paypal page, then it's defiantly fake. Same as your story, out at sea, marine engineer, present for his son, convinced me to make paypal. But he should of taken thought of my email which said "1995", which is my age. Seriously trying to scam an 18 year old is sick, but yet stupid because the younger generation is hot on internet security. Had some fun when I sent him a funny response back. Unfortunately I'm studying internet security. I am from England and he saw my ad on gumtree. Anyway thanks a lot for this post and it's sad to think he's been doing this since august or probably way back. People need to be warned!

Yes this is a pure scam just nearly happened to me how funny be warned people !!

This is terrible same thing happened to me today he asked why I was selling car I said that my uncle was diagnosed with an illness and needs to sell mayb he had a little bit of heart and thought not to scam an ill person anyhow he is reported now silly idiot ! BE AWARE !!

just had numerous emails from [email protected] regarding gumtree add i placed regarding my car, said he was a marine engineer and wanted car as a surprise for his son, emails were exchanged and i gave him my paypal email address etc, he then stated he had an Agent problem with collection and could i go to my local post office to make a western union transfer.

googled his email address and here i am, i have emailed him to let him know he's a scammer and well known on a google search.

Thanks to those who posted, peace of mind all round now, changed my paypal email address just to be sure.