So I listed a coffee table for sale on gumtree. and within the first 5mins I received a sms msg asking me to confirm the asking price via email. I thought it was odd because the price is right there on the sale ad, but figured some ppl miss the obvious and I went about to confirming the price via email. Received a reply soon after saying that she will pay 550bux (I was asking 450, which was another eyebrow raising moment, but 450 is so damn cheap, im practically giving it away) and that she will send her friend around to pick it up after the funds have cleared. it also asked me to give the bank details or paypal account name which was fair enough.
so i sent back an email with my bank details bsb/acc#'s as well as clearly stating that the price is 450bux and I will not allow pickup of the coffee table until I have the cleared funds in my bank account, so tomorrow arvo or monday arvo at the earliest. i did not get a reply to this which seemed odd because the previous email/sms had a real sense of haste/urgency about them. and then i started thinking..........
and as a result of my thinking, i have removed all access to my bank accounts/credit cards via paypal. as an added measure i have made my public bank account have a zero balance. i dont need to do any of this, because im probably dealing with someone that thinks he is clever, but there is a slight chance im dealing with someone more sophisticated.
I think i figured out how the scam works....
-they offer to pay for something for more than the asking price. +100bux in this case.
-they pay via paypal (using a hacked account)
-there friend comes around to pick up the coffee table, but tells me that i must pay him the extra 100bux as a courier fee.
-he goes off with the coffee table and the 100bux cash
-the actual owner of the hacked paypal account does what he does to recover his losses (paypal will chargeback most transactions)
The scammer gets 100bux cash +coffee table, and i get royally screwed right up the...
so im thinking i should actually send another email saying that she seems trustworthy enough and that she can pick up the coffee table tomorrow arvo if she can provide a transaction receipt (easy to fake). and then when the bloke comes around to pick it up, i can umm...encourage him not to do this stuff anymore in a most persuasive manner :)
so i sent back an email with my bank details bsb/acc#'s as well as clearly stating that the price is 450bux and I will not allow pickup of the coffee table until I have the cleared funds in my bank account, so tomorrow arvo or monday arvo at the earliest. i did not get a reply to this which seemed odd because the previous email/sms had a real sense of haste/urgency about them. and then i started thinking..........
and as a result of my thinking, i have removed all access to my bank accounts/credit cards via paypal. as an added measure i have made my public bank account have a zero balance. i dont need to do any of this, because im probably dealing with someone that thinks he is clever, but there is a slight chance im dealing with someone more sophisticated.
I think i figured out how the scam works....
-they offer to pay for something for more than the asking price. +100bux in this case.
-they pay via paypal (using a hacked account)
-there friend comes around to pick up the coffee table, but tells me that i must pay him the extra 100bux as a courier fee.
-he goes off with the coffee table and the 100bux cash
-the actual owner of the hacked paypal account does what he does to recover his losses (paypal will chargeback most transactions)
The scammer gets 100bux cash +coffee table, and i get royally screwed right up the...
so im thinking i should actually send another email saying that she seems trustworthy enough and that she can pick up the coffee table tomorrow arvo if she can provide a transaction receipt (easy to fake). and then when the bloke comes around to pick it up, i can umm...encourage him not to do this stuff anymore in a most persuasive manner :)
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