Ipad By Verizon
Someone offered to buy my Ipad 2 on Craiglist using Paypal, is it safe?
I’m selling my Verizon ipad 2 and today, I got an email from someone saying he/she wants to buy it. This is what it says,
“Thanks for your quick respond i will like to buy this item for my twin
brother located in abroad as birthday gift and i would have agreed to
pay by Cash but i am currently out of State right now. I have been
trying to buy this on ebay but its so very stressful buying on ebay.I
will offer you $970 for the item and $100 for shipping so as to close
the auction as soon as possible.I will be paying through PAYPAL
because i have a verified account with paypal.So kindly get back with
your paypal email address so i can make payment into your paypal
account.Get back to me if my approval is granted.I would like to see
the pictures please.”
I’m suspicious because of many different reasons.
100% scam.
There is no buyer.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your possession, your electronic item, clothing or jewelry.
The scammer isn’t interested in your identity or bank account only in convincing you to ship your possession to him without him sending you a penny.
The next email will be from another of the scammer’s fake names and free email addresses pretending to be “Paypal” saying “kindly send the tracking number and we will release the funds”.
Paypal does NOT send such emails, ever. Paypal does NOT have escrow or money holding services like that scammer describes. Paypal does NOT demand you send a tracking number before money is sent. EVER. No exceptions.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his ‘potential sucker’ list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of being the perfect buyer, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don’t bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn’t worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
If you google “yahoo buyer’s protection program scam”, “fake paypal email scam”, “ebay escrow fraud” or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near victims of this type of scam.
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