We got the same type of text. Wanting to buy a motorcycle for his son's birthday. Sounds like a type of home invasion type of situation to me. scary. thanks for the prior posts. The e-mail he provided us was [email protected].
The way that this scam works is ... he asks for your paypal account name (which is your email address) so he can send you the money via paypal. You get an email, from what looks to be paypal, stating you have received payment and in the email there is a link that you can click that will take you to the paypal login page. You click on that link and it does take you to a web page that looks exactly like official paypal one. But its a page that is running on this scammer's server. You put in your paypal username and password and click OK. Your paypal login info is now in the posession of the scammer. If you have any money in your paypal account, kiss it good bye.
I am selling a fishing boat for over $2000 and after telling him it was still available, he agreed to buy it .... What kind of person buys a boat without looking at it first? RED FLAG!!
Here is the content of his SMS to me ...
I'm a Molecular biologist / Oceanographer and am currently on sea , im buying it for my son as a Birthday Surprise gift and he doesn't know about it, so can you assure me i will not be disappointed? no shipment involved as i have a mover that will come for the pickup. Im okay with the price and condition , I can only pay you via one of the fastest and secure way to pay online (PayPal).. Do you have a PayPal account?
We just received the same message as we are trying to sell a motorcycle.
Here is the content of his message.
I'm a Molecular biologist / Oceanographer and am currently on sea , im buying it for my son as a Birthday Surprise gift and he doesn't know about it, so can you assure me i will not be disappointed? no shipment involved as i have a mover that will come for the pickup. Im okay with the price and condition , I can only pay you via one of the fastest and secure way to pay online (PayPal).. Do you have a PayPal account?