Post your scam alerts;
The latest I encountered is a suspected scam where scammers target sellers on craigzlist and offer to purchase your item and remit payment using paypal.
After you "agree" to the deal, you get a couple of emails. 1 from the "buyer" asserting the payment has been made and of course a ship to address in Nigeria. The second, a phony email purporting to be from paypal addressing you as your email address (paypal doesn't greet it's user that way) reflecting a payment and tracking information for shipping. Of course, you can easily confirm no such payment has been made to your paypal account.
Ultimately this scam works two ways I suspect. Obviously the first way is to get you to ship an item after conning you into believing your paypal has been credited with a phony paypal email. The second potential scam is to credit your paypal acct. with funds. But paypal's payment reversal policy has a loophole which enables the scam to work. As the payment would be classified as "services" rather than goods, there would be no proof that the victim who becomes the "vendor" provided any goods. So the "buyer" in this case the scammer gets the money back.
The latest I encountered is a suspected scam where scammers target sellers on craigzlist and offer to purchase your item and remit payment using paypal.
After you "agree" to the deal, you get a couple of emails. 1 from the "buyer" asserting the payment has been made and of course a ship to address in Nigeria. The second, a phony email purporting to be from paypal addressing you as your email address (paypal doesn't greet it's user that way) reflecting a payment and tracking information for shipping. Of course, you can easily confirm no such payment has been made to your paypal account.
Ultimately this scam works two ways I suspect. Obviously the first way is to get you to ship an item after conning you into believing your paypal has been credited with a phony paypal email. The second potential scam is to credit your paypal acct. with funds. But paypal's payment reversal policy has a loophole which enables the scam to work. As the payment would be classified as "services" rather than goods, there would be no proof that the victim who becomes the "vendor" provided any goods. So the "buyer" in this case the scammer gets the money back.
