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Durp
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada3117 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-16 18:13:23
February 16 2012 17:50 GMT
#1
Hey all, not sure where to post this, figured Blog was best bet.

I have recently posted on CraigsList to sell my electronic drum set.
I received contact from an interested buyer. He then explained that he works outside of the country, and that this was a gift for his son.

Apparently he can only pay through pay pal, and asked me for some information before doing so:

Paypal name :
Paypal email account :
Your location :
And your phone number:

He then asked me to remove the post from craigslist as he was interested in purchasing the item.

Does this seem legit? I have no experience with craigslist, or much with paypal. I am pretty desperate for the money at the moment, hence asking here if anyone had any information I could use in figuring out if this is legit.

My add offered free delivery within my home city. The perspective buyer said he has a pickup agent that would come pick up the set after payment was sorted out.

Seem legit?

edit Seems to be for sure a scam. I'm going to post his response to me, anyone who stumbles across this blog searching up on something similar can have a reference.

Thanks everyone for your help <3

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Great. am glad to read from you ,will appreciate more pictures... i am a Adventure Traveler, i am on mission at the moment and i will be back at the end of next month.I am buying this for my son, so am willing to offer you the amount you required,you have to understand,my work is important,I can only pay through PayPal at the moment as i don't have access to my bank account online(i don't have internet banking with it), but i have it attached to my PayPal account, and this is why i insisted on using PayPal to pay,i've decided to cover the PayPal 3% charges and you will get your exact asking price,all i will need is your PayPal email address to make the payments, and if you don't have a PayPal account yet, you can set one up at www.paypal.com it cant take you less than 3mins to do that, i will be expecting your PayPal email so l can pay and also get back to me with your best price on this. I have a pick up agent that will come for the pick up after payments has been sorted.

I will need the below information in other to transfer the fund into your paypal account

Paypal name :
Paypal email account :
Your location :
And your phone number:

I will really appreciate if you can delete posting from Craigslist because am willing to buy this now.

Hope to read from you soon.



*
SOOOOOooooOOOOooooOOOOoo Many BANELINGS!!
Kralic
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2628 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-16 18:02:43
February 16 2012 17:55 GMT
#2
no it is not.

edit: to clarify

Whenever someone offers to buy something off of you with paypal, but is convieniently out of the country or town that the item is located in, but has a third party that can pick up the item after payment is made is 9/10 a scam. The scammer can do a charge back on his paypal account. He gets his money back, you do not receive any money and your item has been collected by the third party and is gone.

Just google search craiglist paypal scams and you will get stories from people who have received similar emails.
Brood War forever!
Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
February 16 2012 18:01 GMT
#3
Ask him if he's a Nigerian prince, in that case you'll know he's good for the money.
I think esports is pretty nice.
Durp
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada3117 Posts
February 16 2012 18:07 GMT
#4
Didn't seem legit. More research after posting has shown this.

Thanks for the help <3
SOOOOOooooOOOOooooOOOOoo Many BANELINGS!!
Gogleion
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States534 Posts
February 16 2012 18:09 GMT
#5
Nonono does not sound good at all.

Paypal makes it very easy for the buyer to withdraw payment. Also, Paypal favors on the buyer's side in disputes more often than not so you would be taking a risk to sell the drumset.
EffOrt. That is all.
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25977 Posts
February 16 2012 18:16 GMT
#6
If you ever have even the slightest feeling that something isn't legit online, don't do it.
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PassiveAce
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States18076 Posts
February 16 2012 18:18 GMT
#7
If your concerned, better safe then sorry.
Call me Marge Simpson cuz I love you homie
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
February 16 2012 18:22 GMT
#8
Adventure Traveler =)
That's adorable!
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
DreamChaser
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
1649 Posts
February 16 2012 18:24 GMT
#9
No, when he says he works outside of the country i would of been like...Nope, i only did 1 craigslist deal and i did that in person at a VERY busy area to make sure nothing creepy happened.
Plays against every MU with nexus first.
goswser
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3519 Posts
February 16 2012 18:24 GMT
#10
On February 17 2012 03:16 Chill wrote:
If you ever have even the slightest feeling that something isn't legit online, don't do it.

If you ever have the slightest feeling that something isn't legit online, it isn't.
say you were born into a jungle indian tribe where food was scarce...would you run around from teepee to teepee stealing meat scraps after a day lazying around doing nothing except warming urself by a fire that you didn't even make yourself? -rekrul
Mykill
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada3402 Posts
February 16 2012 18:30 GMT
#11
Paypal scams are so popular... Be careful. This is obvs not legit.
[~~The Impossible Leads To Invention~~] CJ Entusman #52 The problem with internet quotations is that they are hard to verify -Abraham Lincoln c.1863
Golgotha
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)8418 Posts
February 16 2012 18:41 GMT
#12
On February 17 2012 02:55 Kralic wrote:
no it is not.

edit: to clarify

Whenever someone offers to buy something off of you with paypal, but is convieniently out of the country or town that the item is located in, but has a third party that can pick up the item after payment is made is 9/10 a scam. The scammer can do a charge back on his paypal account. He gets his money back, you do not receive any money and your item has been collected by the third party and is gone.

Just google search craiglist paypal scams and you will get stories from people who have received similar emails.


bingo. at first i thought you were saying it is not a scam, but then i guess you were answering if it is legit. this man is correct, this type of third party/out of country transactions are very popular forms of online scamming. easily scam.
Tryndamere
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Canada145 Posts
February 16 2012 20:04 GMT
#13
You don't even have to ask anybody. This is so obvious a scam, if they play turtle with you saying this and that trying to make up a story instead of coming to your place and check it out then obviously it's a scam.
My right arm is much stronger than my left arm!
Kralic
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2628 Posts
February 16 2012 20:49 GMT
#14
Durp, if you also want to know another way to tell if it is not a scam is, ask them if you can call to hammer out the details for picking up the item, just say you will not access to your email for a little while. A lot of the time a legit person will call and the scammer will dissapear.
Brood War forever!
English
Profile Joined April 2010
United States475 Posts
February 16 2012 20:49 GMT
#15
Doesn't even mention the item. Looks like it's a mass email copy/paste.
iokke
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1179 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-16 21:14:19
February 16 2012 21:13 GMT
#16
To be sure just ask him to transfer the money to the agent who is supposed to pick up the drum set from you. Have the agent then pay you in cash during the transaction. If this isn't a scam, he should not be against that. Too bad it is
Crop circles are Chuck Norris' way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the f*** down. rerereredit.. I never get it right the 1st time
CryMore
Profile Joined March 2010
United States497 Posts
February 16 2012 21:19 GMT
#17
NEVER DO CRAIGSLIST VIA ANYTHING OTHER THAN CASH. Seriously though, the whole point of doing craigslist is to do sell/buy locally with cash and meeting in person so you can verify the product. Also, always meet in fairly secure area, and tell someone where you are going before going to any craigslist deals. I would bring a friend along as well, because I have had a friend clubbed in the head by some teenagers in a deal, and was almost robbed, but his gf was in the car, locked the doors, and called he cops. He had about 10 iphones (like $4k) in the car that could have lost if he didn't have his gf with him.
"What wins? 3-base Protoss or 2-base Zerg?" "1-base Terran"
starplayer35
Profile Joined January 2012
United States40 Posts
February 16 2012 21:26 GMT
#18
take the tip and dont do craigslist its bad
MassHysteria
Profile Joined October 2010
United States3678 Posts
February 16 2012 21:27 GMT
#19
When you sell through paypal do a request money form. Then write out the invoice using that with the information of the product and paypal will request the money for you using that invoice. Don't just give him your email and have him send you the money!
"Just ban all the J's...even jinklejoes" --unnamed source
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
February 16 2012 21:31 GMT
#20
Well, if you just copied any of the text and checked google...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111127132407AAYTKK1
http://www.riverdavesplace.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-51906.html
http://pay4pal.com/paypal-email.php
http://www.scamradar.com/reports/2418/craigslist-cashiers-check-scammer.html

and so on
Administrator~ Spirit will set you free ~
krok(obs)
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany264 Posts
February 16 2012 22:14 GMT
#21
yeah, pretty much a scam. the way paypal works in germany (and i assume their guidelines are valid for most countries in the same way) is that paypal will reimburse you with the money you might have lost to a scammer, but ONLY if you have some type of evidence for having sent said item to the buyer(usually in the form of an invoice or sth along these lines).
ive had to make this sort of experience myself. sold sth on ebay and the buyer had somebody meet me and pick up the item. wired me the money via paypal and everything seemed to be in order. next day he simply cancelled the payment and i was left with the debt in my paypal account.
http://www.sc2ranks.com/eu/481074/krok
Iranon
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States983 Posts
February 16 2012 22:16 GMT
#22
It seems that "Adventure Travelers" are at least somewhat worried about theft. Here are their standard-issue pants. So I'd guess that no, they aren't trustworthy folk.

In other news, how was your first thought not to Google a dodgy-looking message?
instantdry
Profile Joined September 2007
Canada308 Posts
February 16 2012 23:29 GMT
#23
"Adventure Traveler" is a clear giveaway
ClysmiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2192 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-16 23:35:14
February 16 2012 23:34 GMT
#24
On February 17 2012 06:31 Plexa wrote:
Well, if you just copied any of the text and checked google...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111127132407AAYTKK1
http://www.riverdavesplace.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-51906.html
http://pay4pal.com/paypal-email.php
http://www.scamradar.com/reports/2418/craigslist-cashiers-check-scammer.html

and so on

Wow, I use Google for like everything, but even I wouldn't have thought of that. Smart thinking ^.^

Yeah, 100% not legit.
ODKStevez
Profile Joined February 2011
Ireland1225 Posts
February 17 2012 00:27 GMT
#25
Such an obvious scam, never give anyone Paypal details and never buy/trade anything online that you are not £100 sure about. I have personally lost about £100 trading over the net. It's full of scammers.
Luppa <3
Suc
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1569 Posts
February 17 2012 00:31 GMT
#26
"Adventure Traveler" lol
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