I might have lost a PayPal scammer

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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:44 pm

He was asking for Steam Cards because I "upgraded" my PayPal account and need to pay to use my account. I sent him this image based off of **DELETED NAME OF SCAMBAITING MONETIZER****'s scambaiting video where he almost sent this image before they cut him off.[img]<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b599167cef372c8f893096d/1536983955431-CJFNL60XXP7KABUHGYJK/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kJp1CpF37JFreq5PrpGN5ogUqsxRUqqbr1mOJYKfIPR7LoDQ9mXPOjoJoqy81S2I8PaoYXhp6HxIwZIk7-Mi3Tsic-L2IOPH3Dwrhl-Ne3Z286HqLqcfcYzXjQE3adzH1I6sKu5179ERADB86KCnO9VtJ7FN3X5-sPvnbvPhIz1B/thomas-and-friends-birthday-card.jpg" alt="Thomas and Friends Birthday Card | Free printable cards ..."/>[/img]

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:45 pm

oops. well it's just a picture of thomas.

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 2:48 pm

Please have a read on how to post pictures:

https://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17488

ETA: Oh and use the "Preview button" before hitting the "Submit button" so you see how your post looks like Very Happy

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:41 pm

This is the entire email log including the email I got from Scammerwarnings.com. Dark blue is , red is my comments, and default is the scammer.

Quote:

I'm SW, your transaction administrator. Congratulations that your PayPal account has been Upgraded.
You have an Additional Payment of $250.00 USD from DJ using PayPal

Your Limit Account has been expanded/upgraded to Business user and the sum of $550.00 USD Plus the extra $50.00 USD for the compensation fee will be credited into your PayPal account activity with no further delay,But before the funds can clear/appeal on your account activity,You are required to make the refund first.

And your purchaser DJ has let us know that he would want the refund to be use to purchase a Steam Gift cards,So we urge you to kindly make the urgent step to get the Steam Gift cards of $200.00 USD at any store around you then you will get back to us with the pictures of the Steam Gift Cards (Scratched) so we can forward it to our processing department for proper verification process and clearance of your funds.

LAST REQUIREMENT TO GET YOUR FUNDS:

For your account to be credited fully with the sum of $550.00 USD. You are require to visit any store nearer to you and buy an Steam gift cards of $200.00 USD and scratch the cards then take a clear picture of the cards and email it to us by replying this notice,so as to secure the additional payment DJ sent to expand your account. We also congratulate you for successfully upgrading your account to BUSINESS USER which gives you unlimited access to receive any amount of money from now on.

IMPORTANCE NOTICE: Immediately we receive the proof of the refund as we mentioned above, the sum of $550.00 USD will likewise be credited and effectively to your account immediately. No delay or exception over your funds once we get this.

Get back to us with the pictures of the Steam gift card so we can fund your account immediately with the total sum of $550.00 USD

We regret any inconvenience this might have caused you.

Thanks,

SW

Transaction Administrator

How to send the Steam Gift Card

Go to the any nearest store around you to purchase the Steam gift card
activate it there and scratch it then send the picture of the card to our email for verification.

Quote:

This is a surprise! I've never been on PayPal after my obnoxious daughter made on for me. I've never gotten over the fact that she spent $400 on silly donations to her favorite YouBubers. I'm assuming this is from that transaction? You've caught me at the right time, as I was heading to go get my medications from my pharmacist. I need to confirm one thing though; what is a Stead card? (This is how I was going to stall.)

Kindest regards, .

Quote:

Hello customer

Thanks for contacting us and we using this medium to inform that in this kind of transactions, you have to provide the steam card requested and your account will be credited immediately..

NOTE: The steam card is required for the additional payment made by your buyer and once the refund is verified, your account will be credited instantly without any delay and we hope to confirm this from you so we can finalize your money into your account. All of this was in bold and a font of 30. My eyes were bleeding.

Quote:

So what is a steam card? I still have no clue of what it is. I don't remember the login details to my PayPal. Can you assist me in that matter?

Quote:

Hello customer

Thank you for reaching out to us and We want you to know that you can get a steam card in any store around you e.g like CVS, Walmart, best buy and walgreen and once you provide the steam card your account will be credited immediately and your account will open again and then you can change your login yourself and we hope to receive the steam card as soon as possible so we can finalize your money into your account and make it active again.. Again this was in the horrible font except it was all bright blue.

Now I got annoyed so I ended the conversation with one final email.

Quote:

Oh, I think I may have one lying around somewhere. I will send you an image of it now.
I then sent him this monstrosity

This is a Thomas the Steam Engine gift card. I found it and printed it out for my son all those years ago. Is this valid, and if so I'd like to congratulate your birthday.

He's never responded since.

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:45 pm

To be on the safe side you should omit references to Shara's last name and delete Daniel's email address all together. I may have missed other mentions to specific names/info in your bait that a lad can search on via Google or other engines. When pasting bait correspondence here on Eater you are better off using just the first name or initials. Nuke all instances of email addresses, phone numbers, and other bits that a lad can paste into a search bar.

If a lad figures out what is really happening right now it isn't a huge deal. However, if the bait evolves and you keep him on your hook for a long time you may regret leaving so many bread crumbs lying around for your lad to find. Worst case scenario is that you have your little heart set on convincing your lad to duct tape himself to a rocket headed to Mars. After months of endless back and forth and heel dragging on his end you finally convince him to move his lazy ass. He sends you a copy of the receipt for the tape and finds someone to take a picture of him standing in front of the launch pad the day before takeoff (his phone is perpetually broken for some reason and he doesn't understand why you can't send him money to replace it Rolling Eyes

). Then he gets restless and nervous about the trip so he heads to Google to search for your or his characters and any other specific info that was exchanged in between.

You don't expect him to call/email/text you until he reaches a low Earth orbit capable of talking to the Iridium satellite network but for some reason your phone dinged at you several hours before it was humanly possible for him to become weightless. Sadly, he found his bait the previous night and calls you "an unimaginable pig barstead that is the daughter of a mermaid" (don't ask). Many of the baiters here are simply awesome and will figure out a way to save the bait but my guess is that if they could do it all over again they would have been more careful to hide stuff that could bring a lad to Eater via Google. Just a suggestion. It does look like you are having fun though so thanks for sharing the adventure!

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