Am I required to provide Buyer with my email address in order to make payment via bank transfer?

[bubswebcloset]

Hi Ebayers,

I would need an advice asap.

I sold an item within hours of posting it  3 days ago. I indicated payment options as either via  PP or direct deposit. First the buyer  requested a total figure (however it was obvious as I asked for fixed postage fee ) then informed me that he was currently having problems with PP  and wanted to pay via bank transfer.I said ok then he wanted me to provide him with my bank details/name+account details/ plus my email address saying that his bank wanted to send a confirmation of the transaction directly to my email. With no reason he gave me two of his email addresses (Not his "real" name but the same email ID with outlook and  Yahoo but later on he kept giving me one email address of the two without any explanation. Furthermore I became  abit suspicious when I noticed that he did not provide his street number  to the postal address and also a different name appeared on the postal address. I requested to correct it but he seems to ignore it. Instead In his messages he keeps asking for my email address.It is very annoying.. I sent him a message last night that I would need to cancel the order in case the payment will not be done in 48 hrs. He replied me today and all he said he was in the proccess of completing the transaction but his bank needs my email address.

I do not believe i should give him or his bank my email in order to deposit the fund. I had already enough of this game..Any advice would be highly appreciated . Thanks and regards

[bubswebcloset]

Hi and  thank you for taking the time to respond me.

Being pre-cautious does not mean I am treating him like a  scammer.As you could see above there were a few members who thought he could be a scammer.

I have been assisting him politely so far but if someone is telling me additonal information such as how much extra will cost him to have the item delivered internationally as he purchases it for someone I find it strange.Why does he ignore my 3rd request to clarify his postal address due to the lack of the street number.Should not it be his best interest to give me a clear information? 

In the end I decided to give him  my email address so lets see what happens.

Have a great day

[silversterio2]

"as how much extra will cost him to have the item delivered internationally"

100 % SCAM

Have no further contact vwith the SCAMMER and follow all my instructions in my previous post.

[bubswebcloset]

....that sounds scary.. thanks for the reply. Im  going through your message at the moment. I do appreciate it. Cheers

[silversterio2]

"In the end I decided to give him  my email address so lets see what happens"

Ignore any emails you receive from the Scammer stating that payment has been made and is  being held safely until you give a tracking number for the parcel.

All a SCAM - The emails will be fake.

[everard6920]

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@silversterio2 wrote:

"In the end I decided to give him  my email address so lets see what happens"

Ignore any emails you receive from the Scammer stating that payment has been made and is  being held safely until you give a tracking number for the parcel.

All a SCAM - The emails will be fake.

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Furthermore, don't click on any links in the email.

I would've given him a fake email address If he was legit then it wouldn't matter anyway.

[lyndal1838]

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@bubweb wrote:

I have been assisting him politely so far but if someone is telling me additonal information such as how much extra will cost him to have the item delivered internationally as he purchases it for someone I find it strange

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If you had put in the information that it was being sent to someone else then I think all of us would have advised you to have nothing to do with him.

I would guess that you would have been asked to send the item to Nigeria or some other African country.

It is classic Nigerian Scam behaviour.

If you ask questions on the boards you need to give all the information that you can as the responders can only base their answers on what you tell them.  That one snippet of information about the item being sent overseas changes the way we see everything else.

[bubswebcloset]

thanks, you are right, I should have given him a  fake email address but ... there is always a first time

[bubswebcloset]

Thanks for your further comments.He said of the "someone"  is his son who resides abroad..my first thought was that should be ok especially being a few weeks away from Christmas and I made it clear in my listing that I ship the item to Australian destinations only. I have never meant to have it delivered outside Australia. 

I also looked his 50+ positive score feedback however he obtained none within the last 12  months or even longer.

Needeless  to say that I learnt from this case and I will hopefully sort out this scammers faster in the future. 

All the best

[silversterio2]

"I also looked his 50+ positive score feedback however he obtained none within the last 12  months or even longer"

The Scammer will have hijacked another member's dormant account.

[*tippy*toes*]

Is the "buyers" address an Australian address? How is their English?