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Hi There,
Just wanted to put in my 2 cents worth. I had a Canon film camera on sale on another web site, for ages, no sale. I get an email from someone wanting to buy it from me, like over a year from the original add. The person was ofering over and above the price I was asking for it, I was immediately on alert. The person also wanted to pay me through PayPal and wanted to complete the transaction ASAP. I wrote back requesting where they were so that I could calculate the appropriate postage, turns out they were in Nigeria. Nigera money scam immediately came to mind. Calculated the postage and packing turned out to be just under the price of the camera. Sent it away, sent off a PayPal request for payment and got an email back from "PayPal" saying that my money had been transfered and being held, send the item within 5hrs of recieving the email, when it is recieved the money will be released.
Contact PayPal, sure enough the emails were a hoax, so everone out there, be careful. I didn't even put my bank details into PayPal when setting it up just to make sure I wasn't diddled.
Regards
Paul
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