The scammer offers an eBay / Craigslist / other auction site seller a wonderful deal. The scammer will use "PayPal" to send the money, so the deal will "be protected by PayPal". Here are some of the variations on the scam:
The scammer picks up the item or has it delivered to a place that has no snailmail tracking. Since there is no online-visible proof of delivery, the scammer successfuly files and wins an Item Not Received case with PayPal, and gets both the money and the item.
The scammer sends the seller a PHONY link to PayPal. The phony link states the item was paid, but the seller has to send some money or the Tracking Number "to release the funds". The scammer gets both the money and the seller's PayPal login information!
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I was trying to sell an item on a free add website called kijiji and received a text message telling me to reply to this email for further instructions on how selling of my item.
When I sent hello this is (name) from the add are you still interested in buying he replied word for word quoted bellow.
"Hello,I'm Okay with the condition as I have already go through it on
the advert but just trying to make little inquiry from you, I'm ready
to buy it now as a gift for my Daughter, I'm at sea at the moment as
I'm a Navy Officer, and due to the nature of my Job.....phone calls
making and visiting of website are restricted but I squeezed out time
to check this advert and send you a message regarding it. I really
want it to be a surprise for my Daughter I won't let her know anything
about it until it gets delivered to her, I am sure she will be more
than happy with it. I insisted on PayPal because I don't have access
to my bank account online as I don't have internet banking, but I can
pay from my PayPal account, as I have my bank account attached to it,
Get back to me with your PayPal email and the last price you are
selling it? so I can proceed with the payment quickly, and sorry if
you don't have an Account, you sign-up for a PayPal personal account
www.paypal.com it is very fast and easy to set up. And there is a
shipping company pick up agent that will come for the pick up after
the payment has been sorted out.
The scammer offers an eBay / Craigslist / other auction site seller a wonderful deal. The scammer will use "PayPal" to send the money, so the deal will "be protected by PayPal". Here are some of the variations on the scam:
The scammer picks up the item or has it delivered to a place that has no snailmail tracking. Since there is no online-visible proof of delivery, the scammer successfuly files and wins an Item Not Received case with PayPal, and gets both the money and the item.
The scammer sends the seller a PHONY link to PayPal. The phony link states the item was paid, but the seller has to send some money or the Tracking Number "to release the funds". The scammer gets both the money and the seller's PayPal login information!
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Thank you for the details... useful got that same message I just replied but was suspicious.... will see what I get from here.
Now I am prepared..
Thanks again
I too have just received a call from this number after posting on kijiji. I immediately checked on this site and sure enough it was what I expected. Thanks to all of the above posters for their input.