Haggling on a car sale

Dukesy

stuart1917 wrote: »

I am currently selling my car, a buyer has offered to buy it for his brother without seeing it (they say they are working on a ship) and want to pay via paypal then have a courier collect it.

This feels a little suspicious - is paypal a secure way to receive the money, or is there a scam here?

Sorry this is in this thread - I couldn't work out how to post a new thread.

Great big massive SCAM. Run a mile!

It's becoming quite a common one, just don't reply to the message at all and don't get sucked in. I've been sent this one before, as have a lot of others.

A bit of research shows that they pretend to have paid you via paypal, sending you a faked paypal email and then ask you to pay a courier via, for example, Western Union. You send the money, typically a few grand, and then you realise that the paypal payment that they supposedly sent never arrived, leaving your wallet an awful lot lighter for your trouble.

poppasmurf_bewdley

stuart1917 wrote: »

I am currently selling my car, a buyer has offered to buy it for his brother without seeing it (they say they are working on a ship) and want to pay via paypal then have a courier collect it.

This feels a little suspicious - is paypal a secure way to receive the money, or is there a scam here?

Sorry this is in this thread - I couldn't work out how to post a new thread.

Tell them you will only accept cash. You'll never hear from them again. IT IS A SCAM. Paypal payments can be recalled after they hit your account.