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06-05-2014, 03:01 PM
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SCAM ALERT !
I just want to let everyone know what happen to me today. I am selling a motorcycle. So i have it out on Craigslist and other media . So i receive an email today by someone wanting to buy it . He told me he wants to pay me by Paypal and wants to ship it to his home. So i said OK . I then receive another email from him telling me he needs my help with the shipping company because they don't take Paypal and he need me to get them a money order for the 750 shipping charge but he will send me the extra 750 with the Paypal payment. I am thinking this deal is starting to smell fishy but Paypal is safe and may be he is deployed somewhere in the service . So i receive a Paypal invoice by email saying the 12,100.00 for the bike + the 750 are in my pay pal account waiting for me. The invoice looked real and said all the right thing . So i called Paypal by phone to confirm they had the money and sure enough they
DID NOT . I informed them of the SCAM and they also told me that they would only do 10,000.00 transaction anyway . I just wanted to inform everyone. I know allot of us use Paypal when selling parts or even cars. It use to be buyers beware but now i guess it sellers too. Last edited by kinpin; 06-05-2014 at 05:08 PM. |
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06-05-2014, 03:08 PM
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2010 2SS/RS M6
Drives: 2010 2SS/RS M6 Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Oldest scam in the book. As soon as someone wants to buy it via paypal and they want you to ship it without even seeing it is a scam.
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06-05-2014, 03:52 PM
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Drives: 2013 Camaro Dusk 2SS/6 Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: New Jersey
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yea craigslist warns you everywhere... anybody wanting to ship the item is gonna be a scam
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06-05-2014, 03:53 PM
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I got the same thing when I was selling my truck a few years back. these guys are smart and do explain that they are in the military, out of the country blah..blah.. blah... A holes.
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06-05-2014, 04:02 PM
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Drives: 2013 Camaro SS Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Dallas
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Oh well. It was a nice bike. Im sure ill find another one around.
Edit: This happened to me with my old camaro. Becomes obvious fairly quick with most of them
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06-05-2014, 04:03 PM
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Drives: 2010 1LT RS Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Halifax,MA
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Wow. I thought everyone knew about this by now?
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06-05-2014, 04:06 PM
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06-05-2014, 04:33 PM
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100% Sport Møde
Drives: '17 Civic SI + '04 SVT Lightning Join Date: Apr 2012
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I've sold and bought stuff on Craigslist before. I always buy and sell locally. I can smell those scams a mile away, I just ignore them!
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06-05-2014, 04:46 PM
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Drives: 2023 Camaro 1SS Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: United States
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For the lot of us in our teens, twenties, thirties, we grew up photo-chopping and pranking the hell out of people and making memes, and we know that there are dirty and clean versions of credit card processing and easy ways of getting information from the right sources online. Older generations or those that didn't grow up around the internet..this is still pretty new. It's foreign to think suspect of everything/anything electronic. |
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06-05-2014, 04:56 PM
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What's this button do?
Drives: 2019 Black 2SS Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Wylie, Texas
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Thanks for taking the time to post this info kinpin.
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06-05-2014, 06:45 PM
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Drives: 2016 1SS SW Join Date: Jun 2013
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 The digital divide is real.
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06-05-2014, 07:14 PM
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Drives: too many Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: oh va pa ma tx
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what's cr and PayPal?? lol
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06-06-2014, 12:11 AM
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Drives: 2010 Inferno Orange 2SS/RS Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Clermont, IN
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06-06-2014, 03:14 AM
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Drives: '11 SW 1LT/RS 6M Join Date: Apr 2011
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Can you check your account rather than the email invoice? I would think if there was fraudulent account numbers connected to the transaction(their end, not your end), then the money transfer wouldn't be able to happen. You'd still have the current balance in your account and you'd know there was a bogus activity or transfer attempt. Plus, wouldn't that send up red flags to PayPal, and subsequently notify you of the attempt? Anyway, just asking.
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