Another Scam ?

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My Bav29 is for sale.

After an initial exchange of emails with a possible " buyer " i have received the following email.

" Thanks for the email, do let me know how much you are willing to sell
to me and you need to assure that it is in perfect condition and i
would love to see more pictures if you have. I will be paying with my
paypal account which is the safest online payment mode. So please do
reply me asap with your paypal account or send me a payment request
from your paypal account so i can effect payment to you rightaway. You
can easily open an account with paypal if you don't have one at
www.paypal.co.uk. its safe, simple and reliable also do get back to me
so we can arrange for pick up as i will like it to be picked by my
pick up agent, so no shipping included. I await your reply. Hope to
hear from you soon."

I have no experience with paypal . Is it the safest online payment mode?

I am tempted to play along but i will not part with the boat until the sale proceeds are safely sitting in my bank account.

Advice / comments gratefully received.

Thanks.
 
It's a scam! He will soon send you a link to "PayPal" which will lead you to a phishing site that looks like PayPal, you sign in and he has your user email address and password, he strips your linked bank account bare.

Real boat buyers don't buy on spec.
 
The Lazy Kipper said:
It's a scam! He will soon send you a link to "PayPal" which will lead you to a phishing site that looks like PayPal, you sign in and he has your user email address and password, he strips your linked bank account bare.

Real boat buyers don't buy on spec.
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100% spot on - run away, its a scam.
 
The Lazy Kipper said:
It's a scam! He will soon send you a link to "PayPal" which will lead you to a phishing site that looks like PayPal, you sign in and he has your user email address and password, he strips your linked bank account bare.

Real boat buyers don't buy on spec.
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How does he have the password?

It is a scam though. What happens is, he'll overpay by £5,000 (or whatever) then ask you to pay his shipper by bank transfer (note the shipper has already been mentioned). You think you have the excess £5K so no problem, transfer the cash, then his cheque to Paypal bounces, they withdraw funds, you're down £5K to his "shipper".

That's more or less it, I'm sure a Google search for "shipping scam" will tell you much more.
 
Does anybody know if you can you rent a 10m berth in Abuja or do you have to buy,does Ryanair go there and does the chandlery sell good quality under water lights or just the cheap ones . ? :)
Ps.How is the internet over there as I may need to sent frequent and urgent emails ?
 
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beejay190 said:
My Bav29 is for sale.

After an initial exchange of emails with a possible " buyer " i have received the following email.

" Thanks for the email, do let me know how much you are willing to sell
to me and you need to assure that it is in perfect condition and i
would love to see more pictures if you have. I will be paying with my
paypal account which is the safest online payment mode. So please do
reply me asap with your paypal account or send me a payment request
from your paypal account so i can effect payment to you rightaway. You
can easily open an account with paypal if you don't have one at
www.paypal.co.uk. its safe, simple and reliable also do get back to me
so we can arrange for pick up as i will like it to be picked by my
pick up agent, so no shipping included. I await your reply. Hope to
hear from you soon."

I have no experience with paypal . Is it the safest online payment mode?

I am tempted to play along but i will not part with the boat until the sale proceeds are safely sitting in my bank account.

Advice / comments gratefully received.

Thanks.
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I think the guys have spotted the scam (for which thanks - I'll remember that) but even more than that the wording of the email would have rung alarm bells for me... he sounds like an advert for PayPal....
 
ari said:
How does he have the password?
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Because the link he'll later send the seller to show he's made the payment won't be the real Paypal site, it'll be a fake. The seller will click the link and get what looks like a Paypal log-in page, in which the seller will input his UN/PW which gets recorded by the fake site before refreshing the page with a url_redirect to the real Paypal site.

Sellers should also beware of the other scams such as where a buyer will agree to buy something and will send a check that is bigger than the amount agreed. The seller says "hey you sent me too much" and the buyer says "Ohh sorry, just send me back the difference" which the seller does. Two weeks later the seller's bank says "this check you deposited from 'Mr. Dr. Rev. Mrs. Hon. Peter Mark' is a fake"
 
Not necessarily paypal is safe, if he has your email and you have his that is all you or he needs, there is no link needed, to join paypal they do a few checks to make sure your the right person by taking or putting a few pence in or out of your account and you have to confirm the amount to be a verified account holder.

So if he is buying from you all you do is ask for a deposit of say £500 on paypal then he can pay cash on collection but the deposit holds it. You don't need to follow links he has your email tell him to send the money to your email address you are the only one in the world with that account. Whilst the whole could be a scam sending money via paypal is safe.

It's only not safe when these idiots send out an email saying your account has been accessed so log in here and give an address that does not match paypal and people log in and check. If your going to log into your account check what the web site is. Put mouse on the link and look bottom left corner if it's paypal, your be logging into paypal.com if it's natwest it's the same why anyone logs into these fake accounts is beyond me. Www.rbspaypal.com/fakeaccount

Dunno about you lot but I've won 250 lotteries been left 100 billion all over the world, and had 250 billion in amounts where someone has died and the bank manager wants me to go halves, and after all that I've still only got a 40ft boat. I must be the poorest rich man in the world.

Scams rely on people making big mistakes
 
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"Dunno about you lot but I've won 250 lotteries been left 100 billion all over the world, and had 250 billion in amounts where someone has died and the bank manager wants me to go halves, and after all that I've still only got a 40ft boat. I must be the poorest rich man in the world"

+1 and so perfectly well stated, well done Phil!

Graham.
 
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