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It looked totally legit. So Robert prepared to ship the watch.
“Just before my wife took the package to the post office, she insisted that I call PayPal to confirm this transaction,” he said. “No funds were transferred to my account — just the bogus email and fake logo.”
“This was not the only bite I had on my watch,” Robert said. “At least five other out-of-state texts came to me looking to transfer funds in the same manner as the first one that almost caught me,” he said.
PayPal warns against scams like this. And thank goodness for suspicious wives. Now you know
“It looked totally legit”
Duh ...
You have to be careful. I have bought and sold out of area using paypal. You just have to be as sure as possible,and if anything seems out of place, or your gut says something is funny, don’t do the deal.
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All kinds of PayPal scams are out there. I tried to find a home for a dog that someone tossed into my yard. People were offering to send me thousands (of scsm bucks)to ship the poor dog somewhere. I ended up taking him to a no kill shelter.
That’s why on big sales, I check my PayPal account online just to make sure.
The part that gets me is that they went by the e-mail, then called Paypal...
The dashboard on paypal would have clearly shown the available balance and recent transactions and would have been the primary clue that they were being ripped off.
Also why wouldn’t someone use the paypal shipping to do the postage for the box? It’s much cheaper than the post office, and easier - you print it at home, tape it to the box, and drop off at the post office.