Who called from 2817476182

I just received a text from "Jessica" but at this number 281-747-6182. Things felt weird so I goodled the email given [email protected] and came up with this site. It seems that the 775-629-2157 and the 281-747-6182 must be connected, as they are both claiming to be "Jessica". I was selling a $650 piece of furniture. She asked me to send an invoice via Pay Pal, which I did. I was okay with the idea of Pay Pal but then they wanted to take an additional $400 for their shipping company. I said I didn't feel comfortable with this. I cancelled the invoice via Pay Pal and feel like I dogged a bullet. I don't know how people scam through Pay Pal but it makes me feel nervous. So I'd rather not do it.

Here is how the "PayPal Scam" works:

Says they will buy the item and will pay extra to cover charges by his shipping agent.
Says he will PayPal the funds and instruct you to send the extra money via wire transfer or pre-paid card to the agent.
He then sends you a fake PayPal deposit notice email, spoofing the official PayPal notice, that says the money has been put into your account.
You, thinking PayPal has your money, go ahead with the wire/prepaid transfer to the shipping agent, who is really the scammer.
After that, you then find out there was no money transferred to PayPal and are out the money your wired.

This happened to me as well. Thankfully I felt something was wrong and contacted paypal.

Same thing I'm selling a bed for the same price I got a text saying that she was interested and her name is Jessica wanted me to sign up for pay pal and then send her my info so she could pay me but I thought that's a little weird seeing how she never ever said anything about when to pick up the furniture I say beware of this person and number things just don't feel right

I too received an text from someone named Jessica. At first I was going to say yes, I have a pay pal account, when asked. Then thought better, and told her no. She then asked me to set up an account and get back to her. Yea right!!! Told her I know this is a scam & no thanks!!!!!! Didn't get anymore texts from her. SELLERS AND BUYERS BEWARE! The Item I was selling was posted on Craigslist.