Recently had an enquiry from monroe016@hotmail.com to purchase a board I have for sale on Seabreeze . He was claiming to be working overseas but wanted to purchase board prior to returning home. After agreeing on the price, said buyer was issued with a paypal invoice.
To cut a long story short, paypal return form was a Fake, claiming that an additional sum of money had been sent to our account and that we had to foreward this too a Western Union Account.
The communication to us was almost identical to a previous entry on this site Beware of scammer 13.04.2012. So the scammer is still trying.
Well i had an enquiry about my board from mark smith on ebay. This guy agreed to pay over paypal, he wanted the board for his daughter who lived in russia. He said he would pay using paypal and his removal truck would come pick it up (weird ha). His first message was "Hi Do you still have it for sale?How much is your last asking price???". then his next message was about the pickup and payment and he ended with "if you don't have a PayPal account yet, you can set one at: www.paypal.com
cant take you less than 3mins to do that, i will be expecting your
PayPal email so l can pay and also get back to me with your best price
on this. I will be waiting." (Thats also weird to me, seems pushy)
I made up an excuse to why i couldn't sell it to him. He sent me another message about a week letter that was EXACTLY the same as the first. I made another excuse and i recieved another message about a week later EXACTLY the same as the first.
The whole this seemed strange to me.
If it smells fishy it most likely is.....
Number one rule with paypal, If someone sends you a link to pay for something. Never, Never click on the link to finalize your transaction. PayPal is safe but always go directly into the paypal website then log into your account and finalize any payment requests, Any way else and your asking for trouble.
It's the same Sam guy as a few weeks ago. I got an SMS from Monroe asking what my final price is. Didn't specify which item. Signed off as Sam. I got a very similar one from Samuel a few weeks ago. Replied to neither.
As an aside, both times they appeared in my phone with their name shown on the SMS rather than the phone number, as if they were in my contacts list. How does that work? Sent from a website and not from a phone?
I had an SMS from the same dude. I asked him to give me a call, still waiting!
Scumbag!!
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guy ,
i hope you keep all Ur email and text and report them to the police
get them to send you email direct to you're personal account ( even if you set up 2nd account)
There are basic steps to find the person :
1. Get the email headers, find the IP adress , find them - block them
www.peoplesearchpro.com/journalism/spy/trace.htm/
or just forward the email to the police ( don't copy any paste the text ) you need the information attached within the email
all this information can be useful and stop any future people from getting scam
i did this a few year ago , I got a very nice email from NZ police 12 months ago saying that the info i gave them solved a 3 million fraud case
most the people who scam aslo do thing like , Bank scam , drug, abduction
and the 1 phone call or email they send you could be the slip up that put them away
even if they cant catch the person , they will block where the email are send from.
this is the same reason why we now get less spam and pop from places like Russia
