PayPal scam

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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 12 Mar 2016 Posts: 1

Okay so I was contacted by someone that was interested in buying items from me that I advertised on a site called done deal. I received a text and saying "hello,do you still have this FURNITURE available for sale on donedeal? Get back to me as soon as possible on.. [email protected]" naturally I replied so it transpired that he'll pay via PayPal and get a company to come to my house to collect and take them to his home... In Aberdeen.... I live is the west of Ireland! So I sensed something was wrong I Google the name and I came across a site that mentioned this guy he used the very same text as above but replaced FURNITURE with AD, BIKE, CAR etc. So panic set in I called PayPal and they were aware of people like this. What they do is claim they sent money when they didn't. They'll send you threatening legal action and often become abusive.

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 12:14 pm

Hi and welcome to Eater. This is a well know over-payment scam. You can check our sister site, ScamWarners for variations on this.

I'm glad you weren't scammed and figured out that this wasn't on the level.