Classic - yes it is something to worry about!!

Just got this classic response from the first one that I emailed back.

Thanks for mailing back,am ok with the price and the condition,am
buying it for my vacation,because i'll be coming soon from our rig as
am a petroleum engineer on a rig offshore,i won't be able to come
forth inspection due to the nature of my work,i would have love to
call in person but our satellite server has been down which restrict
our calls.i will be paying you through PayPal,pls get back to me with
your PayPal details so i can proceed with the payment and contact the
courier agent who will come to pick it up and deliver it in my place.I
would appreciate if you email me with more pictures (if available) too
since i won't be be able to see this in person,what's the PayPal email
to send funds to in order for me to pay you ASAP,And if you don't have
a paypal account, it is very easy to set up, go to www.paypal.com.au
and get it set up or you send me your bsb and account number so i can
pay you from my paypal merchant account



I knew something was fishy!!!!!

Reply to all of them, final price = 10x advertised price. See which ones think you're really really dumb.

I have this same scammers twice already !!
first asking for " final price "
then trying to arrange some payment by Paypal
then asking for Western Union money transfer to pay for shipping !
scammer claims to be on the ship and need to send goods to his daugher in Malaysia or Indonesia ?

I did even wrote a letter to Gumtree with warning about scammers.

One I can't understand. How actually scamer make money of this procedure ?

Macroscien said...

I have this same scammers twice already !!
first asking for " final price "
then trying to arrange some payment by Paypal
then asking for Western Union money transfer to pay for shipping !
scammer claims to be on the ship and need to send goods to his daugher in Malaysia or Indonesia ?

I did even wrote a letter to Gumtree with warning about scammers.

One I can't understand. How actually scamer make money of this procedure ?

You don't even have to leave seabreeze to find out.... www.seabreeze.com.au/Articles/Kitesurfing/PayPal-Scammers-read-how-they-work-it_4579457.aspx

Macroscien said...
One I can't understand. How actually scamer make money of this procedure ?

Easy! There are millions of dumb, greedy people out there.