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I'm selling a piece of gear on Craigslist. I get a message posted 4 AM asking if it's still available. I reply "yes" the next day and receive the following:
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Ok..I live in Arizona and I will like to buy it for my sister who schooling at west Africa ,I will add $100 for the shipping through USPS ROYAL Mail to West Africa , I will pay you via my PayPal account so kindly get back to me with your PayPal email account so that I can make the Payment ASAP...Thanks and hope to hear from you....
Sent from my iPhone
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What's the scam here? This person can't do anything nefarious with my email address (except spam me). I suppose there will be another message with the actual scam if I reply?
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Buy Chinese. Bury freedom.
Follow Ups:
Maybe you will receive a payment from a stolen credit card, which will be canceled or reversed in a few days, once the theft or fraud is discovered. They may also ask you to return the difference between what they sent to cover postage and the actual cost, so that you are scammed out of the item, the shipping, and that "overpayment" amount, when the original payment turns out to be fake.
Oh shut how did I get to this forum!
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
Do not communicate. The entertainment value of learning the scam brings with it a risk. As you don't know what the scam is, you don't know what the risk is. There are various scams that use Paypal's dispute procedures to cheat people. Stay away.
WW
"I'd crawl over twenty miles of bad country to listen to you pee in a tin cup on the telephone." (Jo Carol Pierce)
That's interesting. So the scam might be that he requires delivery to an address that can't be officially tracked? Then the buyer (who has in fact received the merchandise at that address) files for a refund, claiming non-delivery? FWIW, I wasn't planning to turn over my email address. No good could come from that. I was just curious about the scam. Thanks for your comments!
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Buy Chinese. Bury freedom.
The scam is you don't get paid and he tries to trick you into shipping it. I respond to those F U scammer but of course you know me it's spelled out.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
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