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#144530 by valerieylewis Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:14 pm
Hi Folks! Thanks very much for protecting us from getting ripped off! Here's a recent reply I received from an "interested party" to a car sale ad on Craig's List in LA. I am sure this is a scam and wonder whether I should alert PayPal. Let me know what you think (needless to say, I will not respond to this):

1st of 2 messages:
[email protected] via craigslist.org

Jan 10 (2 days ago)

to mfkwn-35359140.
do you still have it for sale,email me back

2nd of 2 messages:
Peter Flood <[email protected]>

5:05 AM (3 hours ago)


Thanks for the prompt response.. I am ready to buy it now but i am not
in town at the moment as i am a marine engineer manager and due to the
nature of my work, It hard to make a phone calls and visiting of
website are restricted but i squeezed out time to check this advert
and send you an email regarding it. I really want it to be a surprise
for my dad so i wont let him know anything about it until it gets
delivered to him, i am sure he will be more than happy with it. I
insisted on paypal because i don't have access to my bank account
online as i don't have internet banking, but i can pay from my paypal
account, as i have my bank a/c attached to it, i will need you to give
me your paypal email address and the price so i can make the payment
asap for it and please if you don't have paypal account yet, it is
very easy to set up, go to http://www.paypal.com/ and get it set up, after you
have set it up i will only need the e-mail address you use for
registration with paypal so as to put the money through. I have a pick
up agent that will come and pick it after i have made the payment...

Email me back

1Paypal id
2 your cell number
3 the price
4 your address

Thanks.
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#144568 by vonpaso xlura Sat Jan 12, 2013 7:29 pm
This sort of scam doesn't actually use PayPal. The scammer sends a fake PayPal email saying that PayPal is holding the money until you send money to the pick-up agent. PayPal does no such thing. There may be a website link in the email, pointing to a website operated by the scammer; if you get the email, post it here, including HTML source and SMTP headers, so that we can kill the site.

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