posted on November 12, 2004 09:27:26 AM new
Sometime ago there was a posting about some scam sellers were receiving and I would like to know if someone can lead me to a copy of that email.
In the scam email a person told the seller that the item was to be a surprise gift and further wanted to send the seller $700.00 to be sent to a recipient in another country, and that the seller would be paid $200 for his/her trouble. All this was to be done thru PayPal. Need to know how the seller is duped if he has the $$ in his account?
[ edited by maybedee on Nov 12, 2004 09:28 AM ]
posted on November 12, 2004 12:26:56 PM new
stopwhining.. Thanks for your reply. A friend received such an email and I couldn't tell him how he would be scammed, only that he would lose $$. Needed to prove it to him, but it's okay now, he is convinced.
posted on November 12, 2004 01:39:50 PM new
Just so that he has a clear understanding... the seller would actually lose out on everything since the card/Paypal account that the funds are being sent from are stolen. Once the actual owner of the card/account realizes what has been done and reports it to PayPal, the entire transaction will be snatched from the sellers account.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
