Common scam with f@ke PP email. CAUGHT!

[pennslmmer]

Dealt with this person a few minutes ago... of course he blocked me right after... really had me laughing my ass off lol
http://oi62.tinypic.com/214yzif.jpg

[muzzie]

About a year ago, some "Nigerian prince" guy tried to scam me via PP. It was like that:

1) he found my car ad in the Net.
2) he offered to pay via PP.
3) he sent me a phake PP mail, stating that I've received the money. He didn't even check, if there is such PP account.
4) he stated that his shipping company does not accept PP, so I need to do a wire to them, once I get the PP payment, which included these expenses.
5) wire details were of a private person :D

What a loser.

[pennslmmer]

I come across these type of scam at least once a day... i swear they copy and paste these messages lol....Most of the address I've seen are in Illinois so I'm a bit paranoid selling to anyone in Illinois even if their transaction are legit.

[rsot]

dtae400 might be a member here...

[jjjjj]

Can someone explain how this scam works? I don't get it

[muzzie]

Checked the address, some trailers there. What is wrong with the address?

[pennslmmer]

@jjjj, what some of these scammers do is they will ask for your PP email in order to transfer the fund. What you will receive is a F@KE email notification saying that you have received payment from such and such, and you need to process the order immediately. It will look exactly like those email that you receive from Paypal. It's best if you log into your PP and check every transaction before shipping anything else.

@muzzie, there is nothing wrong with the address. I bet you this fool lives there and he pissed on himself when I threatened to contact the local PD. lol... well I did actually contacted his local PD. :D

[jjjjj]

Ahh I see just like this only this one involves a bit of eBay in it: Scammers Fool eBay Sellers with ⊗⊗⊗⊗ PayPal Emails

Edit: relized link not working because the forum automatically changed the word fa*ke to ⊗⊗⊗⊗ in the url

[MM78]

My brother in law was looking for a car on Craigslist and it was a total scam. Supposedly the seller was in the Military...and they would have the car shipped to us and so forth, it was a total scam.

[pennslmmer]

same fool attacking a different account under a different username. I'll provide him my email and get a copy of that ⊗⊗⊗⊗ email so you guys can see it.

http://oi61.tinypic.com/vmsvw7.jpg

[muzzie]

That Craigslist is a very funny place, I see.

[rsot]

Yeah, I wonder how many people get duped like this. Terrible.

[pennslmmer]

@Rsot, must be a lot or else they wouldn't still be attempting this for the past 2 years now.

Ok, so after I asked for him to send me the payment with the PP email that I had provided, he then used a 3rd account to throw a new offer. I provided the same email because I had a feeling it the same guy testing the water to see if my email I had provided is legit. This f@ke PP email I received from him is a bit different from the rest, but at least it'll give you guys an idea of how it looks like. Notice how it is going to the same city but it's an APARTMENT this time. Could possibly be his real address this time. I'll definitely contact his local PD for this.

[rsot]

I wish you could really get some money from this loser - for your time spent at least

[jjjjj]

What's the email address it came from? Was it @paypal?

[pennslmmer]

lol Rsot... as I was uploading that previous picture, he attacked another account with another bogus PP email...the guy just doesn't give up

jjjj, that moron used his own email lol... usually it would be something similar to @paypal.com... There is a new one that recently came out that a lot of ebay seller received and it's from Paypal@paypal.com....they will ask for you to log in using the direct link from the email.

[yaBeh8ater]

his own email? as in his personal email with his real name?

[pennslmmer]

something like that lol

[rsot]

Originally Posted by pennslmmer

lol Rsot... as I was uploading that previous picture, he attacked another account with another bogus PP email...the guy just doesn't give up

jjjj, that moron used his own email lol... usually it would be something similar to @paypal.com... There is a new one that recently came out that a lot of ebay seller received and it's from Paypal@paypal.com....they will ask for you to log in using the direct link from the email.

If you send me $2000, I will make sure these guys never bother you again....

[pennslmmer]

lol Rsot. That'd be all my profits for the last few months

[pennslmmer]

This guy seriously won't give up... another bogus email but this one looks better. If the FBI willing to get involve, I'd send him a ⊗⊗⊗⊗ package with real tracking number just to have him pick it up.

[muzzie]

Send him a box containing a trap with one liter of unwashable paint.