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Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes
I got the paypal scam in my email box that paypal does not have. Immediately looks bad.
Receipt for your payment to AU-Adcommerce-EOM@ebay.com $79.3
Beware it is a scam. I have seen it before and it looks like it may be doing the rounds again.
I checked my real paypal and it is not there but it would have been if I had followed the instructions to click on the resolution link and logged in
Barry |
I advertised a car on an internet site, and received a text message from a prospective buyer, asking if the car was still available. I responded that it was, and received an email saying the buyer was prepared to pay the asking price, but since he was a marine engineer and at sea, he was unable to pick the car up and would organise a shipping agent to do so. He would deposit the money in my Paypal account, and I would shortly receive an email from Paypal confirming this.
Then I received another email saying the car was to be shipped to New Zealand, but the shipping company would only accept payment through Western Union, and he could not do this as he was at sea, so he was depositing payment for the car plus shipping cost($2500.00) in my Paypal account and requested I go to a post office and pay $2500.00 to his shipping agent in England-a private name and address.
Next came an email supposedly from Paypal saying they had this money but would not put it into my account until I provided them with a Money Transfer Control Number to prove I had paid his shipping agent through Western Union.
I checked my Paypal account and there was of course nothing there. So I called them and told them I suspected a scam-which they confirmed and asked me to send them all the information.
One of my patients overheard me telling my assistant about it, and apparently his son fell for the scam and was stung for $6000.00
I should stress here that Paypal and Western Union are honest and reputable businesses and are in no way involved in this scam.