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27-11-2016 8:54 AM
Hello,
I am concerned with a particular scam that is going around which I have come across twice in the last 3-4 days. Buyers are contacting sellers through either eBay messaging or text if you use other selling site and have pretended to show interest in an item you're selling. Ask for an email address and advise to make payment through PayPal and ask for your email address. They advise that they use a courier service in order to collect the item. The Scam is they send a fake PayPal email that shows money for he item and extra money for the courier service pending and is at 98% the instructions on this email advise to go to a post office and pay X amount of cash to some unknown source and then apprantly the pending money will go into your PayPal account. Now I wasn't caught out but I'm sure other people could be. These people are not using the proper eBay channels to buy items. Please can anyone take this further and perhaps spread the word?
I am concerned with a particular scam that is going around which I have come across twice in the last 3-4 days. Buyers are contacting sellers through either eBay messaging or text if you use other selling site and have pretended to show interest in an item you're selling. Ask for an email address and advise to make payment through PayPal and ask for your email address. They advise that they use a courier service in order to collect the item. The Scam is they send a fake PayPal email that shows money for he item and extra money for the courier service pending and is at 98% the instructions on this email advise to go to a post office and pay X amount of cash to some unknown source and then apprantly the pending money will go into your PayPal account. Now I wasn't caught out but I'm sure other people could be. These people are not using the proper eBay channels to buy items. Please can anyone take this further and perhaps spread the word?
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27-11-2016
9:06 AM
Not a new scam & one that has been going round for a while
Any eBay seller who falls for it would be breaking the rules of eBay & would have actively had to do so as eBau messaging does not allow email addresses to be sent for this very reason
As long as eBay sellers stick to the rules, insist buyers buy through the bid or buy now links on eBay & pay through the link on eBay then they cannot be caught bt this scam........sellers should never send goods unless the payment can be seen in their Paypal account either
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