Receive payment by bank transfer from Gumtree sale

Benzanna

ailey wrote: »

Personally I would be very wary of doing this as I listed a table and chairs recently and got a reply from some called Rose.Lama who said she was buying for her cousin and would pay the full asking price but, as she had a hearing problem and was in a wheelchair herself, she could not come to view the item. She would put the money into Paypal and send a courier for it etc. The courier part rang alarm bells with me as I read a while ago about the same thing happening with someone's car (I can't remember if it was on EBay or Gumtree) but the car was duly collected and then a chargeback was done so the person lost the car and his money.

I googled Rose Lama and found lots of information about it being a Nigerian scam so I don't know if they have somewhere in the UK where they sell the items they 'buy' or whether they get a lot shipped back to Nigeria.

Be very careful and do your homework on this one.

I had exactly the same thing happen to me today. Same message. Name was Laura Davies.