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Originally Posted by alocky
Sorry - I'm a bit thick. How does this scam work? You give them a Paypal address, then what ?
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Hi Andrew,
I had this one pulled on me when selling a car recently. The guy said he was a marine surveyor and couldn't pick the car up,as he was at sea, but would organise a shipping company to pick it up and ship it to New Zealand. He would pay me by Paypal and I would shortly receive an email from Paypal confirming payment. He then sent another email saying the shipping company would only accept payment via Western Union, and he was adding the shipping costs to the Paypal payment. Would I go to the post office and pay the shipping company contact by Western Union? (a private name and address in England)
Then an email came from Paypal (phony, but with their logo etc.)saying he had payed the money to them, but they could not release it until I provided proof to them of the Western Union payment of $2000.00
I was very suspicious and checked my Paypal account-no notification!
Rang Paypal to confirm it was a fraud, and sent them all the info.
Talking to one of my patients, and he told me his son got stung for $6000.00 with the same scam.
I have to stress that neither Paypal or Western Union had any involvement.