Scam?

spa2k

I recently bought an item from ebay, was very happy, left and recieved positive feedback. Just for the record, there is no problem whatsoever with the item or any payment related to it.

However, i recieved the following e-mail from the seller

Hi there,



I am an Ebay seller and we have previously done business. I apologise if you have already received this email. I think this is worth a look and all I ask is that you read all of the following.

Firstly I know this kind of thing is not for everybody so if it's not for you please accept my apologies.

As we did business on ebay recently, I thought you might be interested in this money making opportunity.

The most you can lose is £3.00, you could make a lot of money. I have just paid someone £3.00 so it is working for someone. If I can be convinced to try this then a lot of other people will too. I figure for £3 its worth a try!

I don't normally take part in this sort of thing but after reading all the fuss about this and several emails I thought I'd give it a try!

This e-mail is going round all paypal and ebay users and it seems to be working. Please do not delete this before reading in full - it is not a scam and is not junk mail!

Please note that I have approaching 4000 positive ebay feedback, I am a genuine seller on ebay and PAYPAL and a real genuine person hoping to earn some cash. I am in business to make some extra money and feel sure that we
can both benefit financially from the following plan.

Yes, like me, you have no doubt heard this before in some form but not in connection with 78 million PAYPAL accounts. PAYPAL have also admitted that this is legal and trading standards are not aware of any problem.

All it involves is a one off initial payment of £3, and approximately 20 minutes of your time. I had this email about seven months ago and I ignored it thinking its a con. but as its going around again its worth £3 of my money and maybe yours as its supposed to work.

These are some of the e-mails and proof that I came across which finally made me decide that I wanted to try this but I do apologize if its not your I'm just trying it for fun really I'm skeptical about it I will admit but I'm fed up of trying to win the lottery!

The problem with these types of scheme is that usually they run out of
people to pass onto - but with 78 million users and more joining every day, how likely is that? Plus, they usually require high investment – this doesn't!!

If you are eager like I am by this stage, then read the instructions outlined below, taken from the original e-mail. It is really so easy to do - then you can just sit back and wait for those payments to go into your Paypal account.

INSTRUCTIONS:
The first thing you need to do is go to https://www.paypal.com and send a £3.00 payment from your Paypal account to the FIRST email address in the list below, along with a note saying "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR
LIST". You will also have to select a Subject; 'Service' or 'Goods (other)' should be fine.

Instructions on how to send a payment are under 'SEND MONEY' at the Paypal site. It is very easy.

It goes on for longer and includes testamonials etc.....

Obviously i have ignored it but is this legit? Should a vendor (with high feedback ratings) be sending emails of this type and should it be reported?

Poppycat

Complain to Ebay that the seller is spamming you. I see these paypal scams on here all the time and thankfully they soon go.

shelly

Of course it isn't legit. If people are making so much money why would they want to share it? Ignore and delete it.

If it seems too good to be true then it is.

winkasgirl

Hi I've received two of these e-mails fron different sellers - it sounds like a pyramid scheme to me - send £3.00 and no.5 moves to no.4 etc

The only people that win from this is the people that start it and the silliest of people to contribute!

Hubby got caught in a pyramid years ago - chap at work got everyone convinced that this was great (this was way before I'd ever heard of pyramid schemes) everyone chipped in - he came to work in a new car - everyone else got sod all cos no one else could get people to carry it on

DELETE IT, save your £3.00, change it into 20ps and put in the 20p saving club (see thread)

greytroot

No matter how they dress that up they have Spammed you with Pyramid selling. You really should just bin it.

spa2k

as i have said, i have ignored it, it just suprised me that a seller with such good feedback (and i have to say good products) would want to sully his reputation by sending such rubbish!

bleugh

i find these hilarious, people actually believe that they will receive loadsa money

for a laugh i put in my £3 into one,
after about 2 months I actually got my money back :-)

silkyuk9

winkasgirl wrote:

Hi I've received two of these e-mails fron different sellers - it sounds like a pyramid scheme to me - send £3.00 and no.5 moves to no.4 etc

The only people that win from this is the people that start it and the silliest of people to contribute!

Hubby got caught in a pyramid years ago - chap at work got everyone convinced that this was great (this was way before I'd ever heard of pyramid schemes) everyone chipped in - he came to work in a new car - everyone else got sod all cos no one else could get people to carry it on

DELETE IT, save your £3.00, change it into 20ps and put in the 20p saving club (see thread)

That is exactly what it is its a pyramid scheme, the only person to make money is the person yuo are sending to. you will never get to the top of the pyramid.