scam????

jobdone1

Sent home a nice email about my fake car for sale let's play

arcon5

EdGasket wrote: »

Don't ever accept Paypal for a large item like a car because even if the money is genuinely in your account now, the buyer can cliam it back later by saying he never received the goods, or they weren't as described.

Tell him you will only take cash and be very careful about refunding the amount allegedly in Paypal; you might refund him and then he somehow cancels the original transfer. Ask paypal about it too before you do anything.

As you suspected a scam, it's a pity it has gone this far but at least you haven't lost any money...yet!

PayPal dont offer any protection for buying vehicles. The only way they can get their money back is if it was fraud

edit: somebody has just said that!


I often pay for cars by paypal or bank transfer. Usually less than a couple hundred quid though.

Most people are accepting of it, some get funny - but when i'm sending a truck to get a car i'm not also traveling twenty miles just to pay you cash.

But then I wouldn't even dream of paying for a car worth some real money like that, let alone in advance

tykesi

arcon5 wrote: »

PayPal dont offer any protection for buying vehicles. The only way they can get their money back is if it was fraud

edit: somebody has just said that!


I often pay for cars by paypal or bank transfer. Usually less than a couple hundred quid though.

Most people are accepting of it, some get funny - but when i'm sending a truck to get a car i'm not also traveling twenty miles just to pay you cash.

But then I wouldn't even dream of paying for a car worth some real money like that, let alone in advance

Late quote of the year award - Ed posted that in 2014 :T

Carla19781978

Thank you so much for your post stating that gregcampbell24199@gmail.com is a scammer! Trying to sell an exercise machine on Gumtree, something fishy about the way 'Greg' spelt his surname differently in the display email and his actual email address so I googled it and brought me to this site! THank you

Carla19781978

thank you so much for posting this. I'm listing an exercise machine on gumtree for somebody. Greg Campbel emailed me, with a different spelling of Campbell is his actual email address...I googled gregcampbell24199@gmail.com and it brought me to this thread.
He asked for exact registred paypal name, paypal email and home address! Needless to say the joker won't be getting any more info!
He said it was for his cousin and he had a heart problem and hearing loss so could't pick up the machine himself and he would get his 'courier agent' to pick it up once I had received funds into the account...!

niallbarnett

Well Mr Campbell obviously has a busy cousin as he wants to buy my caravan, possibly to use the exercise machine in!!!

ChrisCheetham

His cousin must eat caravans as he wants to buy ours! Sight unseen!!
Is he just a juvenile timewaster 24/1/99 being his date of birth as I can see no other point to this?

forgotmyname

He wants photo's to list your caravan on sites where the images wont be oibviously stolen ones.

Too many scammers are caught out because the pictures they used are picked up from ebay sales etc.

Nikki05

Got the same email from the poor partially hearing Greg that's just come out of hospital following heart surgery. His persistent emails made me google his email address & I found you lot! So thank you so much for posting, he will not be buying my husbands scooter for his cousin via PayPal!!!!!!

Richard53

One thing about Paypal: if you go to check your balance of to see if the transaction is genuine, always enter the Paypal URL in your address bar and go from there. That way you are sure you are going to the real site. Never follow a link in an email, as these can lead to a spoof site which is very convincing indeed - it almost caught me out recently.


I know that may be stating the obvious, but people are still being suckered by these artists.