fraud

[luckyoreo]

i'm selling a car. If somebody puts money in my account can they later make a charge back. If so what happens if the money has been transfered out of my paypal account.

[Whac-A-Mole · Accepted solution]

There is no seller protection for motorised vehicle.

as you cannot prove on line viewable tracking showing it has been deliverd and if 750 or more,signed for by a commercial carrier.

if money has been transferred to your bank account and you lose the dispute,your paypal account balance becomes negative and you wll be asked to bring the balance to neutral.

ifnot,they will send it to collection agency ,ding your credit and you will get calls from the agency.

if your account is still open,all future payments coming into your account wil be used to offset that negative balance.

Paypal may restricted your account and refuse to do business with you in the future.

[luckyoreo]

Thanks, thats pretty much what I figured. I was suspecting fraud from his 2nd email. I told him cash/cashiers ck/ u.s. money order only and that  there were already 5 red flags pointing twards fraud. ( works on an oil rig, use his transport carrier, looked like he was using a translate site, etc.)  Haven't heard from him since.

[ottolink]

Cashier's checks are also suspect and business checks are almost certainly stolen or fraudulent in other ways.   Too easy these days to print convincing, but fake, cashier's checks.  Many places will no longer take them.   The scammers love to build a story like this guy did.  Often the person is in a big hurry because they are in the Marines or some other branch of the armed services and they'e just been called into active duty and only have a short window in which to complete the transaction.  I will just tell them that I live only 5 miles from where they say they are.  I'm stumped about the oil rig though.  But why would someone on an oil rig want to be buying a car anyway?

As always, pay close attention to weird spellings of words, odd grammar, and especially using words in strange ways.  This is a big sign of a foreignor stumbling over English.   

[Whac-A-Mole]

a chargeback is with his cc issuer,if you lose,add another $20 for charge back fee levied by his cc issuer.