Is this a Scam?

Good to hear back from you. I'll be sending Immediate Payment via
PayPal and would also add $100 to cover shipping and insurance. As
soon as you get back to me with your PayPal email, I'll proceed with
full Payment. I look forward to reading from you soon.

Regards

Im pretty sure this is a scam because in my posting I listed local meet up only.
However..the product im selling is $1500. Although you can easily pay in cash..if a item is $7000 its not likely you will bring that much money. So what other methods would buyers pay cause I know paypal is an option. So its reasonable for them to ask for my paypal won't it?

Thanks!

Hello liuitchi!

Yes this is a SCAM! I'm assuming you are selling something on a site like craigslist or gumtree. How it works is once you send the scammer your paypal email address you get a fake paypal email saying you have a payment waiting from the "buyer". You are either instructed to send the shipping money via Western Union or told to ship the item and send tracking before the payment is released to your account. The emails are fake and a lot of the time pretty good fakes with fancy HTML programing and hot linked images to the real paypal site. Since the scammer did not really send any money he makes off with the shipping money or you item and sometimes both.

Paypal does not do escrow services like this. All transactions are done imeadietly. Paypal would also never tell you to use western union as both of these companies are in the business of transferring money and would not send you to a competitor.

Transactions on sites like gumtree and craigslist are meant to only be done in person with cash in hand. Anything else is a scam.


Justin

Hi liuitchi!

Justin has it nailed exactly, this is a scam, don't bother replying or dealing with this scammer any further.

If you check your actual Paypal account, not the link the scammer will provide, you will find there has been not a transaction verified, any link you are given will be to a very professional looking fake website


Take care

John