Classified Ads Scam TipOff Reports for Paypal (paypal.com)| Scam Reporter | Scam Tips Received | |
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  | Anonymous Somewhere in United States 2013-05-23 15:59:20 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) |  +2 Email to offer to buy my vehicle off Autotraderclassics.com Scammer Information Wanted my paypal account to transfer money for my car which s/he would arrange for transport.… Read Full Report ⇒ |
  | Anonymous Perth, Western Australia, Australia 2013-05-13 07:13:30 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) |  Car Purchase Scam - Gumtree Scammer Information Asks to pay with "paypal" for an item that he has not seen, stating that he works away, and will send his "agent" to collect the goods. Actually will not pay with paypal but send you a link to a fake site...… Read Full Report ⇒ |
 | Anonymous Somewhere in Australia 2013-05-01 00:46:36 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | +1 Geoff Young Scammer Information SENT VIA TEXT
Sent from: Geoffrey Young
Hi Mate,is your carguide advert still available for sale and whats the firm price? Please email me on geoff.young00@gmail.com .Cheers
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| Anonymous Somewhere in Australia 2013-05-01 00:46:33 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | +1 Geoff Young Scammer Information SENT VIA TEXT
Sent from: Geoffrey Young
Hi Mate,is your carguide advert still available for sale and whats the firm price? Please email me on geoff.young00@gmail.com .Cheers
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  | Anonymous Tavira, Faro, Portugal 2013-04-30 23:31:00 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | +2 House renting plus aid on moving costs. Scammer Information After a sms asking to get in touch with him as he wanted to rent our house for a year or more:
"Hello,
Thanks for getting back to me, i am willing to rent the apartment and
i am at sea at the moment as i am a Maritime and Coastguard
Agency(MCA) employee in USA but i am coming to study and work part
time down there but due to the nature of my work, phone calls making
and visiting of website are restricted. I only squeezed out time to
check this advert and send you an email re… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| Anonymous Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2013-04-30 09:48:23 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | selling my car Scammer Information Thanks for the reply am so sorry that i couldn't call you due to the nature of my work,I work with AWE New Zealand Pty Ltd and we are presently on rig at the moment,on the west aquarius submersible to be precise.I would have loved to call you directly but due to the nature of my work we do not have access to phone at the moment,its 20days off and 10days on,which is why I contacted you with internet messaging facility and where is it located at the moment.
I am buying this for… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| Anonymous Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2013-04-30 07:16:43 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | +1 car classification Scammer Information
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| No Name Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2013-04-17 00:51:39 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | AWE New Zealand Scammer Information I was selling a car. They text me asking for firm price and to reply to the email address. Then emailed back saying they worked for AWE New Zealand offshore and it was a present for their son who graduated top off class at ANU.… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| Dan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2013-04-10 00:00:33 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | +1 Gumtree scam Scammer Information PayPal scam using bogus links designed to scam credit card details for paypal or get you to send monies to a fake courier company via western union after a bogus screen shot of monies from PayPal has been sent… Read Full Report ⇒ |
 | Anonymous Washington, MI, United States 2013-03-28 11:59:14 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | +1 email response to an add for a vehicle that I am selling Scammer Information I had just listed my ad with RVT.com. About 3 days after the listing, I got an email asking if my RV had been sold. The person stated she was an "oceanographer and the company did not allow the use of a cell phones", so could only do email, PayPal, etc. She wanted to buy the RV sight unseen as a birthday present for her Dad. She offered to pay the full amount for the vehicle and also pay the PayPal fee along with the transport fee. Follow-up emails requested that I set up… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| Anonymous Oak Grove, KY, United States 2013-03-14 16:43:13 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | Posing as an interested buyer Scammer Information Jessica Davis sent a text message to my phone at 4:00 am on Wed 3/13/2013 inquiring about an item I have posted for sale on Bookoo.com She requested I contact her via e-mail "to better discuss the item". She wanted me to assure her that I would consider her my final buyer and she said she was ready to purchase the item for the price I was asking. She also advised me that her method of payment would be paypal, as it was the easiest way to send and receive money. She also s… Read Full Report ⇒ |
  | Anonymous Somewhere in Ireland 2013-03-08 22:24:44 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | Scam brouder.declan1@yahoo.com Scammer Information I was selling a pair of Shoes on done deal & got a message asking me what price would I take for the shoes I was selling on Done deal from a webtext number 82646. I sent an email giving the price to brouder.declan1@yahoo.com.He/she told me to send them an invoice & they would pay through paypal. Not feeling quite right I googled the email address & found this brouder.declan1@yahoo.com had been sending messages & trying to scam many people. I have tried to get into my yahoo ac… Read Full Report ⇒ |
 | Beatrice Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 2013-02-28 14:13:09 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | brouder.declan1@yahoo.de SCAM Scammer Information Hi, Brouder Declan answered on an ad i had on donedeal.ie. It was a wedding dress so i was confused why a man would ask for that. He didnt argue bout price and wanted my paypal details straight away so i got alarmed. He is a Paypal Scammer. DO not give him any of your details.… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| No Name Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2013-02-21 22:49:21 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | paul oliver (carsguide scammer ) Scammer Information i recived an email from paul oliver asking for firm price of our car he had cent back due to the nature of his work that he is a sailor he cannot come to view the car and it was for a surprise present as his son as he has just graduated from darwin university as a design in arcitechture i never gave details over but asked for a paypal account details to transfer money and he will organise shipping details i had told him that ther will be no frieghting or shipping until mone… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| Keith Hogan Tampa, FL, United States 2013-02-16 13:51:09 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | Oceanographer Scam from Auto Trade ad Scammer Information Thank you for getting back to me,can you assure me that i will not be disappointed if i buy this Vehicle as a Birthday gift for my Dad? as I'm ready to pay your asking price but not cash in person because I'm an Oceanographer and i am presently on a contract which will end in couple of months,the contract is strictly no call due to the lack of reception on the sea area,but I'm able to access my mail through my laptop and my only quickest payment option is PayPal,its safe fas… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| Anonymous Lyman, SC, United States 2013-01-20 20:12:14 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | +3 lejeune yard sales car scam Scammer Information I am currently trying to sell my car on lejeune yard sales. Shortly after I listed it i received an email from Janet Mendez stating...
Am highly interested in purchasing your item and i will like to offer
you the sum of $3,700 for the car and wheels, only if you consider my
offer as your concluding buyer and also i will not be able to come
down to you to check the Item due to some reasons and for the nature
of my work, i will make the shipping arrangement if you are ready to
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 | ben Lake Charles, LA, United States 2013-01-15 13:14:04 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | +1 attempted bookoo scam Scammer Information texted at 430 in the A.M.
scammer: tell me the last price for this item...asap.
me: last?
scammer: okay get back to me with your local address for pick up and get back to me with your PayPal Email account to get your payment transfer into your paypal mail account payment via paypal, thanks
me: no thanks, I don't do paypal transactions for things like this
scammer: but i have paypal that is my mode payment with online transactions
me: okay here is my email address, gof*… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| J. Bernardes Cypress, TX, United States 2012-12-20 18:36:44 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | txt scam for classified car ad - I am presently in US Taranaki Basin Scammer Information I received a txt and the following email regarding the car I have for sale online. Glad I read this site before moving forward.
Thanks a lot for the email. Am buying it for my son who just graduated ontop of his class in National University in California, he studied Business Law and Professional Ethics Minor and am so proud of him . I want it as a surprise package to appreciate him towards his achievement and to be delivered before my arrival Wyoming as my family lives in Wy… Read Full Report ⇒ |
 | Anonymous Somewhere in Australia 2012-12-14 11:31:16 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | car sales on cars.guide Scammer Information Advertised my car for sale on cars,guide
receieved an sms from a david oliver asking if the car was still for sale and a firm price and to reply to his email, so i did , and i got an email reply from him :
Thanks for the response,I would have loved to call you directly but due to the nature of my work we do not have access to phone at the moment,its 20 days off and 10 days on,which is why I contacted you with internet messaging facility.
I am buying this for my first so… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| Anonymous Palm Springs, CA, United States 2012-12-09 09:39:53 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | Vehicle Sale Scammer Information We placed our car for sale on a certain website (not one listed above) and my husband received an text saying this Sarah Storm wanted information about the car. To make a long story short, they asked us to send money to cover for the shipper's cost, that's when I knew that it was a scam. I honestly have no idea how they even got his phone number because I only posted it in two locations. One was a facebook page and the other was a yardsale website for our city we live in. … Read Full Report ⇒ |
 | Anonymous Logan, UT, United States 2012-12-03 17:28:08 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | Online Advertisement Car Scam Scammer Information I received a text message asking if my car that I am selling on a local classified ads website was still for sale. I said yes and he asked if I could send him the details, asking price and conditions to paulwining@gmail.com. I thought it was weird because everything (including pictures) is already on the classified ad webpage so i copied and pasted everything written on there and sent it to him via e-mail. This was his response:
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Paul Dawood … Read Full Report ⇒ |
| Les Lockey Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 2012-10-23 09:06:08 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | car advertised on tradingpost.com.au Scammer Information Thanks for the swift response...I am OK with the asking price.due to the nature of my job and location...i will not be able to come for inspection,am a very busy type as i work long hours everyday,i have gone through your advertisement and i am satisfied with it.As for the payment..i will be paying you via the fastest and secure way to pay online(PayPal).I have a private courier agent that will come for the pick up after the payment have been made ...so no shipping included.Y… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| Cautious Seller Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2012-10-15 23:02:18 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | Scam using fake emails from Paypal Scammer Information Had advertised a truck on trucksales.com and this guy emails saying he is interested etc etc...He wants to go ahead with purchase and asks for paypal email address to make payment. Email supposedly from paypal comes through saying the amount of the truck is now with paypal and the amount for the shipping of the truck is extra and needs to be paid via Western Union and the monies will be released to the seller!....I checked paypal account no such monies are there and no confi… Read Full Report ⇒ |
 | Keith Paulusse Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2012-10-13 03:03:26 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | +1 I advertised my car on Gum Tree and David Oliver sent me an sms. Scammer Information I was nearly conned. I became suspecious when I was asked to pay $950 dollors to a Britsh Freight company via Western Union. The amount reimbursement was allready in a paypal account. Which I could not access. Obvuoisly the deal would be canncelled after I paif $950.
David Oliver etc is a crook and a scam.
I advertised my car on Gum Tree.
Here is the confirmation from David Oliver.Hi Keith,
I have just made the payments now and i also requested that Paypal should sen… Read Full Report ⇒ |
| Anonymous Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal 2012-10-11 16:29:20 Classified Ads Scam Paypal (paypal.com) | Untitled Classified Ads Scam on Paypal (paypal.com), ref:5720 Scammer Information okay, so how much should i send for the item now through paypal
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Mário Amarante wrote:
My paypal email address is: marionion32@hotmail.com
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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:36:49 +0100
Subject: Re: Anúncio OLX
From: jaycool1970@gmail.com
To: marionion32@hotmail.com
okay, so let me have your paypal email address, so that i ca… Read Full Report ⇒ |