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Paypal scam.

  • 16-02-2012 8:16pm
    #1
    loremolis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭


    I've checked and I can't see if this has been posted before. Apologies if it has.

    I am selling a piece of electronic equipment online through an Irish website and received a request by email from <SNIP> to confirm the selling price.
    I responded with the price.

    I received another email from same person saying that they would proceed and they requested that I send a Paypal payment request to them using their email address as the request reference. I thought this was strange but I did it amyway.

    I received an email purporting to be from Paypal saying that Paypal had received payment subject to receipt of shipping details which I could conveniently log into via the link in the email.

    I realised what was going on and emailed the person back to say that I hadn't received any payment.

    I received another email from "Paypal" saying that the payment may show up in my account as pending but that I should proceed to ship the item and then I should log on in the link provided to confirm my shipping receipt/details following which the funds would be released.

    Just for the hell of it I emailed the <SNIP> to give him a tracking number and to ask him where in Ireland he was.

    He said he was in the US.

    The shipping address was to Nigeria.


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