Spooky goings on at Paypal??

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Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 4:42 pm

I just logged into my Paypal acct to check balance which I always keep at Zilch. Purchases come off my debit card via Paypal. Balance is indeed zero.

REWIND A YEAR, I received this:

Quote:

From: Anderson Douglas Lynn <[email protected]>;
To: <***********@yahoo.com>;
Subject: Attention:
Sent: Mon, Jan 30, 2017 2:10:27 PM

Attention:

I know that this letter will hit you by surprise, but firstly I will
like to introduce myself; ***Please note that we
will no longer be liable for any loss, cost or expense whatsoever,
suffered or incurred by You in connection with the fraudsters. Be
warned! We have deposited and also paid for the delivery fee of your
$1.5,000 000.00 Million, as consignment box to FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY
COMPANY. I would be gone on a visit to a friend and will not come back
till Dec,2016. I will want you to contact the FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY
COMPANY to know when they will be delivering your consignment. I have
paid for the delivery charges,the final fee you will have to pay them
is the monthly demurrage fee which they would pay the security
department that are guarding your consignment since the date of
deposit. But if you will be very fast in contacting them, you will be
charged for one month demurrage fee which will cost $58 Dollars USD.
So i urge you to contact them as soon as you receive this email.
CONTACT: Paul Rogers MANAGER, FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY.
E-mail: [email protected] Try to contact him as soon as possible
to avoid increase in demurrage fee. I gave them your delivery address
but you have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistakes in
the delivery of your fund.

Reconfirm below information to the company.

Your Full Name-----------------------
Your Address----------------------- --
Home Telephone--------------------- --
Office Telephone---------------------

Note: You are to contact the FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY MANAGER
via this email:--(paul101rogers@gmail. com) Finally indicate this code:
GM0081 when contacting them, it will identify that you are the owner
of the $1.500.000.00 consignment trunk box deposited in the company.
Do let me know as soon as you receive your consignment and take a
proper account of the content, and see that it contains $1.500.000.00

Best Regards,
Anderson Douglas Lynn

My rather uncharitable reply was:

Quote:

You are a SCAMMER. Piss off or I'll bait you.

I heard no more.

So today just before the FA Cup started I logged into Paypal and my balance was 0.00 as expected.

30 seconds later this zipped into my inbox:

Quote:

Attn
I am hereby to inform you about your total balance amount. Which is $15.5 Million dollars available for withdraw. This balance is the final result of several months of constant trading.

These funds are in a trust fund offshore in the Republic of Costa Rica due to the fact that the country is a tax heaven.

In case you wish to withdraw the funds in your account, you must be aware there is a 1% fee which is needed to be completed for the funds to be wired, this fee will cover the Costarican Luxury Tax, in your case in particular the total amount due is$1759.02 (one thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Nine U.S. Dollars with Two Cents), this Luxury Tax must be cover by the customer before the earnings are wired.

These $1759.02 (One thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Nine U.S. Dollars with Two Cents) pending funds will be wired directly to a Costarican Treasury Trustee's bank account.

In case you don't have the funds to cover the Luxury Tax, the Credit Card Financial Assistance option is offered and authorized by our Financial Department in specific scenarios. Your case qualifies for this option and this is how it works.

Each Credit Card has a credit limit and a cash advance limit. In order to use your cash advance, your credit card debt needs to be $0.00. So the offer is, our Financial Department will pay your credit card debt (it takes less than 24 hours), so you can use the cash advance on the card(s) to pay your Luxury Tax and 7 days after you receive your money our Financial Department will get in touch with you to collect whatever money we lend you for the credit card(s) payment.

Steps of the process:

- You call your credit card provider or check online and request the current credit card balance

- You call us back and we will request some information to fill out a payment request form for each card that needs to be paid

- We will send out the payment for each credit card (We ask you to do not use the cards that day so you don't alter the balance for payment)

- Next morning you can go online and confirm your balance as $0.00. So you can go your bank, swipe the card and get your cash for the Luxury Tax payment.

- Once you get the funds, we will email you the information of the recipient so you can conduct the wire transfer for the Luxury Tax.

- 24-48 hours later you receive your profit deposited into your bank account.

Aside from the Luxury Tax our company will be responsible for any legal fees related to the process. These include but are not restricted to:

- Document validation

- Bank account management

- Non-Resident individual account expense

- Verification and authentication of trading record

- Additional bank expenses

- International certified transaction expense

- Legal power of attorney to release funds from bank account

- Currency exchange board verification *Compared to United Kingdom, United States and Costa Rica

- Lawyer(s) fees

- Etc...

Please contact me directly to this phone number me to assist you with this process.

Best regards.
Paul Rogers

I debated baiting him but as the football was due to start I instead decided to go with my exceedingly irritated reply:

Quote:

As per my previous email, YOU ARE A THIEVING SCAMMER. EAT MY SH*T. Continue and I will bait you. Believe me, my Western Union payment will NEVER arrive. No f*** off, I'm watchimg football.

So now I'm paranoid that HE knows I've just logged into my Paypal account. Maybe a ghastly coincidence....

BTW Chelsea 1 up on Man Utd [penalty] !!!

ETA Sorry, I should've added that these were received in my personal email not my catcher or baiting accounts. The only 2 Scam emails I've ever got in this account. Probably what spooked me!

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2010 Posts: 3876

yes, I understand that it has spooked you.

and rest assured, you didn't educate him.

they are used to be called out as scammers all the time.

I once saw a mail in my catcher, that accidentally was sent CC instead of BCC.

craptons of replies, that he is a scammer, etc.

Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 10:20 am

You're right, I guess I over reacted because he's the only SCAMMER to infiltrate my personal bits and bobs! He also has the dubious honour of being the only lad I've ever used colourful language to and called out as a scammer.

However I think I may have been a little hasty as he is now in NYC meeting his buddy the mayor and has kindly given me an American phone number to contact him. Makes me think he's got to be kosher Rolling Eyes

I think Ada may be pressed into service to help him get his just desserts Laughing

Elite Baiter Joined: 28 Mar 2015 Posts: 1916

Great to see you back posting, Discombobulated Lass. I, also, have recently received some scammy mail in my RL email a/c, which has always been free of this kind of mail. I just delete and never bother to reply - after all, no need to give them the impression it's an active email address.

However, it would be wonderful to see dear old Ada back in action. Very Happy

Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 12:55 pm

Yes I have indeed decided to ignore him which is what I should've done in the first place Rolling Eyes

Ada has got her cardies and twin sets out of mothballs, cancelled all bingo sessions and, as soon as she's fed the cat, is gonna bait him to buggery and beyond (in a caring sharing way of course) Very Happy

Elite Baiter Joined: 28 Mar 2015 Posts: 1916

^ Wonderful! Very Happy

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