topic Re: Another Ebay/Paypal Targetted Email Scam in Selling

Another Ebay/Paypal Targetted Email Scam

ausfast — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:37:32 GMT

Just received this email this morning.

It was from a previous one of my customers, well from their email address anyway.

Subject line was the name of the product title for the item they previously purchased, nothing else.

"Hello, This is {Buyer First and Last Name}, I have recently bought an item from your ebay shop. I am recruiting a few people, from my recent customers for a payment processing team in Australia. The average income is around $1600 per month. Drop me a line if you're interested and available to 1 - 2 hours per day.

Kind Regards, {Buyer First and Last Name}

{Buyers name and address here}"

After I googled this wording I found that it is a scam. Almost fell for it because it is not the usual written in the usual scam pidgin english.

It is almost believable because sometimes buyers do send me an email directly this way.

Be careful.

Re: Another Ebay/Paypal Targetted Email Scam

bsal6160 — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:54:22 GMT

A buyer asking a seller to join their team. Come on really!!!. Why would you not just hit the delete button straight away?

Re: Another Ebay/Paypal Targetted Email Scam

extra-keen — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:21:55 GMT

Darned sneeky if you ask me. The scammers are getting bolder and bolder. Delete and block I think, that way you won't have to see any more emails from that email address.

Re: Another Ebay/Paypal Targetted Email Scam

the3coopers — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:21:36 GMT

If you google for some of the wording in that email + the word "scam" you can find out more about this scam. It's been running for quite a while (it's not new)