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Advice please
greenpixey
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I bought an item from this person on eBay on the 3/8/06(I've paid and received the goods). Today I received this email and I can't make sense of it. Looking at their feedback they have had problems accepting payment for the last 3 days but that doesn't apply to me. Should I just ignore it??? I thought I ask you guy's here before I send them a reply.
Hi, there
****** here! Really appologize to bring you so much trouble! We
sincerely expect your help, cause our paypal account has been out of
work for a long time. Now we will make a refund of your past payment to you and hope you return 80% of the refund to ******@yahoo.com, that means you will get a
20% discount from the refund, will you?
Many thanks for your understanding and help! We expect your early reply. Thanks again!
Best regards,
*******
Hi, there
****** here! Really appologize to bring you so much trouble! We
sincerely expect your help, cause our paypal account has been out of
work for a long time. Now we will make a refund of your past payment to you and hope you return 80% of the refund to ******@yahoo.com, that means you will get a
20% discount from the refund, will you?
Many thanks for your understanding and help! We expect your early reply. Thanks again!
Best regards,
*******
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Has a definite look of a scam. Assuming you've paid that's the end of the matter.
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soolin wrote:Has a definite look of a scam. Assuming you've paid that's the end of the matter.
Soo
Thanks, I thought that might be the case.0 -
DEFINITE SCAM
ignore itdonstermonster
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report it to ebay, who might suspend the account, thus preventing anyone getting caught out.It's BOUGHT (to Buy), not BROUGHT (to bring) AND you cannot be frauded, only DEfrauded.
Please do not buy animals from a pet store. Visit your local sanctuary or centre and give a good home to an unloved or abandoned animal.0 -
smartie1976 wrote:report it to ebay, who might suspend the account, thus preventing anyone getting caught out.
I might just do that. Can anyone here point me in the right direction on how to do it. Received another email from them now... this is from this morning and it is starting to annoy me.
Forgot to say that the email was sent to my personal email and not to my inbox on eBay
Hi there,
******* here! Have you received our email? Really apologize to trouble you! We just want to refund you, and request you to send the 80% of the refunded money. So we sincerely expect your help! Thank you very much if you could do so! We expect your early reply!
Best regards,
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You can forward any dodgy / suspicious emails to spoof@ebay.co.uk and they will look into it.
Hope that helps.0
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