757-967-7442

identity thief

Scammer how calls on Craig's List ads poses as a buyer and tries to get your info.

This number is a cell phone working Craigslist scamming people to try and ship items offering more then the asking price and asking for your Paypal info. They send an email that has been doctored up to look like your Paypal sent it to you showing the money xfer. Only after you give the tracking number it has been shipped. Mostly out of the US, you will never see a dime or what ever your were selling cause you just sent it for free to someone. Seller beware, they use hundreds of different cell numbers but the scam is the same every time

It appears this phone number tried to purchase a phone I had for sale for "his girl friend" and wanted to use PayPal. They offered $400 for a $310 item I was selling, which raised the "smelly" flag right off the bat.

The same thing just happened to me. i was selling some beats by Dr.Dre head phones for $125 and they offered me $200 for the shipping. He wanted them shipped to his "Girlfriend" in Nigeria for her birthday. It sounded a little bit fishy to me but he said he was going to use PayPal  and i know PayPal is legit so i said why not. i don't sell online a lot so i don't know exactly how PayPal works. he sent the money and i received some pretty legit looking emails from "service@paypal.com" saying that they need to confirm the tracking number to release the fund and the money is safe in their database. like i said i don't usually use PayPal so to me it just seemed like they were being thorough.  so once i sent the tracking number they said it takes 24hrs to confirm. the next day i got another email saying the funds will be ready in the morning. i also received a text from this person saying that he was having some trouble with his bank that's why it was taking so long but if you already sent it to PayPal it shouldn't really have anything to do with his bank anymore. i then called PayPal and PayPal said they have no knowledge of any of this and they asked me if the emails came from service@paypal and i told them yes but the thing was that real PayPal emails greet you with your first and last name. the emails i got just said dear PayPal user.  Right now i am in the process of trying to get my package back. i was on the phone with USPS for about 45 minutes. they are trying to intercept the package before it leaves the country. I spend 57$ of my own money to ship it because i couldn't get the 200 until i gave "paypal" the tracking number so i lost 57$ and my head phones. Now i know for future reference. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me"

Here is how the "PayPal Scam" works:

Says they will buy the item and will pay extra to cover charges by his shipping agent.
Says he will PayPal the funds and instruct you to send the extra money via wire transfer or pre-paid card to the agent.
He then sends you a fake PayPal deposit notice email, spoofing the official PayPal notice, that says the money has been put into your account.
You, thinking PayPal has your money, go ahead with the wire/prepaid transfer to the shipping agent, who is really the scammer.
After that, you then find out there was no money transferred to PayPal and are out the money your wired.


Here is how a "Craigslist Scam" or any other "I will send you a check for more than you asked" scam works:

He pays for the item + extra funds to cover his shipping agent costs with a bank draft or cashiers check.
He sends you a check, tells you to cash it and send the extra money to his shipping agent via wire transfer or prepaid card.
You cash/deposit check and wire/prepaid the funds to the agent.
Later, the check bounces as it was counterfeit. The money you sent to the agent, who is really the scammer, is unrecoverable due to it being wire transferred/prepaid card.
You are out money and now run the risk of being arrested for passing a counterfeit check.
See:
http://www.fraudaid.com/
http://www.fraudaid.com/solution_center/solution/draftsoption1/2a.htm

forward all emails to spoof@paypal.com