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vietdoan
Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 1 Location: uk
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:49 am Post subject: help me. is it scam ? |
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i got a buyer emailing me said these:
Dear Viet Doan,
You have an Instant Payment of £160.00 GBP from John Zafira (johnzafira@yahoo.com)
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Payment Details
Purchased From: Viet Doan
Transaction ID:5NS50308X5616661C
Item Site Item Title Quantity Price Subtotal
Gumtree Manchester ad #23065796: Sony Ericsson k850i blue for sale, including 4Gb memory card Mobile Phone 1 £150.00 GBP £150.00 GBP
Postage & Packing via Standard Delivery :
(includes any seller packing fees) £10.00 GBP
Pay pal tax: £5.00 GBP
Postage Compensation (not offered): --
Total: £160.00 GBP
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Payment Information:
We have just recieved payment for Gumtree Manchester ad #23065796: from the John Zafira (johnzafira@yahoo.com)Although payment has been recieved by us, it is currently pending due to the shipping address specified on the Paypal Reciept. We have now verified this shipping address and it is now safe to post the item out to this address in United Kingdom. For protection purposes, we have decided to hold the payment until you have supplied us the shipment reference number for the shipment of the item. This shipment reference number will be verified within 5 minutes, then your account will be credited after we must have confirmed the shipment. Do understand that this security measures are taken to protect the Gumtree community. Contact the Paypal representative who handled this transaction at reference_details@post.com immediately with the shipment reference number so we can credit your account.
We have notified you of the buyers user account troubles and have promised to restore the account back to its original owner. Gumtree and Paypal have succssfully resolved the issues with the buyers account and have completed investigations and concluded it was the original owner who actually purchased your item off Gumtree The auction listing has now been restored on the Gumtree and Paypal database and the buyer has completed the purchase by authorizing payment accordingly.
You are required to follow our instructions immediately and complete the transaction.
Note: Do not send the shipment reference number to the buyer until we have confirmed the status of the shipment and credited your Paypal Account.
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Delivery Information
Address:
John Ben
65 CasmirRd Hckney
London E5 9NU
United Kingdom.
Address Status: Confirmed
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Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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Copyright © 1999-2008 PayPal. All rights reserved. PayPal (Europe) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom as an electronic money institution. PayPal FSA Register Number: 226056.
PayPal Email ID PP307
and another one here.
Dear Viet Doan,
Thank you for using Paypal for your online auctions.
We at Paypal are ensuring that all our customers and auction site are fraud free.
In our efforts to secure our merchants, We are now recieving payments for items that are to be shipped through our secure server. This is to ensure that the seller and buyer do their responsibility in every transaction we handle.
We have now recieved and confirmed payment from the buyer of Gumtree Manchester ad #23065796: Item .
This payment is currently pending to be credited into your account due to the security measures we have taken. You are now required to ship out the item and send us the shipment reference number for verification of shipment. As soon as we have verified the shipment which normally takes about 5 minutes, your account will be credited with the full payment. This security methods have been taken due to fraudulent sellers on Gumtree , if you click the links below you will see an example of these sellers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4386952.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4385956.stm
We await the shipment reference number for verification so we can credit your account immediately.
Note that you are advised not to send out the shipment reference number to the buyer until we have verified the shipment and credited your account.
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Delivery Information
Address: John Ben
65 CasmirRd Hckney
London E5 9NU
United Kingdom.
Address Status: Confirmed
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Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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Copyright © 1999-2008 PayPal. All rights reserved. PayPal (Europe) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom as an electronic money institution. PayPal FSA Register Number: 226056.
PayPal Email ID PP307
but in my paypal account i havent received any notice or money in it
so is it scam!!!?? |
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reculver

Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 53
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:17 am Post subject: SCAM |
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| SCAM ignore it |
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montyzuma Community Moderator
Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 2233
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:26 am Post subject: |
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| definate scam |
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Dirty Mom

Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 1123
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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scam.
post them some poo, and give them the tracking order for that. |
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gums

Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 290
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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| scam scam scam.... |
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