by DavidSacto
Sun Apr 23, 2017 6:52 pm
A similar profile was tried on me just today. I'm trying to sell hospital bed on Craigslist. "Mark" contacts me with a full offer and insisting on paypal. Then, he slips in the "oh you have to wire money to the shipper first" before he can submit the payment to me. Typical scam.
he used [email protected] this time. The email is full of masked email addresses and URLs purportedly from PayPal but not. After establishing interest in my listing, he sends this email below, and then concurrently I get bogus "PayPal" payment received alerts in my inbox.
Alas, I check my PayPal account and no money exists. I guess they expect rubes will go send the shipper a wire transfer without actually checking their own account first? Weak.
From: Mark James <[email protected]>
he used [email protected] this time. The email is full of masked email addresses and URLs purportedly from PayPal but not. After establishing interest in my listing, he sends this email below, and then concurrently I get bogus "PayPal" payment received alerts in my inbox.
Alas, I check my PayPal account and no money exists. I guess they expect rubes will go send the shipper a wire transfer without actually checking their own account first? Weak.
From: Mark James <[email protected]>
I have just made the payment and the money has been deducted from my account,Let me know as soon as you got the confirmation of my payment from PayPal kindly check your email inbox or junk mail boxes for the confirmation mail from paypal and Find the below information for the shipper details.......
Sofia Rene Cannaday,
State: Sacramento,
City: CA,
zip code: 95821
Country:United State
kindly send the $450 to the shipper as soon as possible and email the details of the transfer to me.
I wait for your swift response.
Thanks and nice doing business with you.
Regards Mark...
Last edited by AlanJones on Sun Apr 23, 2017 8:36 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: Split from unrelated topic and personal details removed
