Watch out for this scam.

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Scammer ebay username: tee081

This user asked to buy an item from me direct through PayPal. The sent me messages saying that they sent the payment and that a ‘PayPal manager’ would be sending me an email. This is not how PayPal works, which was a huge red flag to me.

Here’s the full email.

Here’s the email it was sent from: Paypal Assistant . Few things about this email, why is PayPal using an outlook email, and why is paypal spelled paypai?

This person had me send them an invoice, took the email associated with my account and sent a spoof email looking like it came from PayPal to scam me into sending an item. I wasn’t born yesterday and didn’t fall for it, but it’s still something people should be on the look out for.

Here’s the full eBay exchange:


To all future scammers, pick a different target.

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I don’t understand how people spend their time. What a shitty life.

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Yup, I remember reading about this type of scam a long way back (I think like 8 years ago). Can’t believe people are still pulling this crap.

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What an idiot

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Sad thing about it , is that people actually do fall for this.
Predators like this will eventually nab one person out of the hundreds if not thousands of people they try it on.

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Some people are absolute scum. So many deals get done online and unfortunately this happens a lot.

This is one of the biggest issues with the hobby. Anytime there is money to be made you will always see scammers.

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Be sure to forward the email to spoof@paypal.com

They will take action against them.

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Already did.

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Cornwall sounds like a lovely country to visit

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www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283260860249?ul_noapp=true the silly fucker couldnt understand fuck off after 12 responses lol

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Your the scammer in this :joy: this guy doesn’t seem too bright to be honest.

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Easiest way to tell to is that their English sucks… who the hell says this: “in charge of this translation” hahahaha

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He could have at least made the email look more professional.

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Phishing will always be a problem. Even if they get 1 out of 100 people, that’s still a win in their book. Filthy scammers.

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“yOuR tHe ScAmMeR iN tHiS”

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From what I remember in phishing (not this one though), scammers tend to make much less believable scam emails so that they only fish out the people who are gullible enough to send them payment, and waste less time tricking more cautious people who in the end will just waste their time and not send the final payment.

This on the other hand, just feels like they copy pasted a badly done template elsewhere.