Same bastage sent me the exact same email on my Nytro, from an ad on ksl.com, right? I'll have to find my reply email, it was a gooder!
internet scam??......how so?
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If you can't talk in person or on the phone, I would never deal with him! Even if you get him on the phone, I wouldn't give up ANYTHING till the money is good and the check is cleared the bank. there is no reason he cant wait for two or three days to make sure the check or wire transfer is good
Same email
I got the same email today regarding a trailer I am trying to sell... Thanks for posting this now I know its a scam...
I got the same email today regarding a trailer I am trying to sell... Thanks for posting this now I know its a scam...
looks to be a scam but im not sure how this type of scam is going to scam me, looking for some info.....
His intial email to me about the for sell sled:
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sharonqz02@gmail.com David Sharon Feb 6, 2010 @ 10:11am
Hi Do you still have it for sale? i will like to make an offer $12,900 for this,payments will be make through paypal and i will arrange the pick up as well. Cheers, David
i reply with:
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David,
Yes it is for sell.....give me a call at 801-XXX-XXXX
he replies with this:
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Hi thanks for mailing back,i am an oceanographer, i am at sea right
now,i am buying this for my son as a surprise gift and I am glad you
accepted my offer.I can only pay through paypal at the moment as i
dont have access to my bank account online(i dont have internet
banking with it),but i have it attached to my paypal account, and this
is why i insisted on using paypal to pay,all i will need is your
paypal email address to make the payments,and if you dont have a
paypal account yet,its pretty easy to set one up at www.paypal.com,i
will be expecting your email.I have a pick up agent that will come for
the pick up after payments has been sorted.
Couple different scams come to mind. They can charge their credit card through paypal then reverse the charges or use someone else' credit cards or accounts. Or, what happened to me....someone hacked my paypal account somehow and transferred money directly out of my bank account through paypal to two different accounts in Europe. My bank reimbursed me (Mountain America) and took a loss, but paypal is not safe and I no longer have a linked account which hinders some of my would be purchases. You can't put a price on piece of mind though...
Jason
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Happened to a friend of mine. They use a fake paypal address and email - when you get the "paypal" email saying the money has gone through, you send the product (or they pick it up) and you never see the money again. Usually they are from a different country (i.e. Canada, Mexico), so the feds can't do anything about it, and paypal won't do anything since it's not their problem.
Run away quickly and delete his message!
Run away quickly and delete his message!
Report it Paypal.
Hatch I have identical emails from the same guy the oceanographer. I have just been stringing him along, I figure if I keep him busy then it might save someone from getting screwed. If I could figure out a way to scam the scammer and make some money.
I kept one of these guys going for months. I received a bunch of fake checks (that looked real complete with watermark), and I sent fake confirmation of Western Union delivery just to keep this guy busy. I hope I at least inconvenienced him a little. What a bunch of dirt bags. Ya gotta wonder who the people are that fall for this stuff are though. It must be working for the thieves or they wouldn't keep doing it.
Are you all going to miss the not-so-obvious?
Hold your cursor-thingy over the PayPal link that the "buyer" provided and you will see that it has NOTHING to do with the real PayPal. The page may look like it if you click on it, but that's how the scam works. You think you are filling in your personal and financial information on "www dot paypal dot com" and the guy is just crappy with his word spacing, BUT you're screwed instantly because the link is actually "www dot paypal dot com, I will".
Hold your cursor-thingy over the PayPal link that the "buyer" provided and you will see that it has NOTHING to do with the real PayPal. The page may look like it if you click on it, but that's how the scam works. You think you are filling in your personal and financial information on "www dot paypal dot com" and the guy is just crappy with his word spacing, BUT you're screwed instantly because the link is actually "www dot paypal dot com, I will".
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Are you all going to miss the not-so-obvious?
Hold your cursor-thingy over the PayPal link that the "buyer" provided and you will see that it has NOTHING to do with the real PayPal. The page may look like it if you click on it, but that's how the scam works. You think you are filling in your personal and financial information on "www dot paypal dot com" and the guy is just crappy with his word spacing, BUT you're screwed instantly because the link is actually "www dot paypal dot com, I will".
Acutally, if you do go to Hatcher's post and click on the link that the scammer provided, there is no web page that opens. It's notthing. Try it.
I think it was an honest mistake there to miss the space after the 'com' and the comma.
The typical html of email will automaticlly parse ANTYHING with a www in front of into a webpage such as this: http://www.thisfunny.com,iwill send you the check. Just need a comma after the 'com' and it is the legit paypal site.
www.paypla.cim (just bad spelling)
www.paypal.com,i can't spell today.
www.chickenlips
www.turkey.toes
www.I can't type today
www. this guy is a loser (notice the space before "this")
Not a scam link, just bad typing.
Type it yourself when you reply to this message, you'll see. BUT, that is a very smart thing to do when looking at something like that. Hover the curser above the link to see where it will really take you if you click on it. Sometimes the link isn't where it actually says. Sometimes you just get some numbers instead of letters.
Sometimes you do see the actual website on there but it's also got stuff in front of it like www.blahblahblah.nz/08794/www.paypal.com
RUN from that too. It's not the real paypal site. THAT is a phishing site and they collect your username and password when you type that in. It happened to me on ebay back about 2000 and I immediately changed my username and password on ebay that same day. Never had a problem. I got the phishing email that said I needed to update my password and wanted me to log in. Dang. that was the first time I'd ever heard of something like that and I caught on quickly after I tried to log in and it didn't load ebay...it stalled and stalled. I thought something was fishy. Looked at the URL and it was not exactly www.ebay.com. I went to ebay's REAL site and logged in, changed my stuff up immediately and never had a problem.
(".nz" is Newzealand, I think.)
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Paypal wouldn't do anything about it since it wasn't their email...
Ok Scott....
I clicked on your "link" for chicken lips and got a page that listed the following:
Shop Chicken Poop Lip Care
LOL! Nice one!
Really, I just clicked on it, (because you said that) and it never opened anything for me. Just got a blank white page.
They may not, but they do ask members to report "phishing" and "spoof" emails that come in sites.
S
sled-fiend
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The Ultimate Payback......
If you guys got a minute check this site out, fawk I've gotten hours of laughs out if it! All about scammers getting scammed!!
http://419eater.com/
If you guys got a minute check this site out, fawk I've gotten hours of laughs out if it! All about scammers getting scammed!!
http://419eater.com/
