Wow, I am a new user on eBay and I wanted to sell my history book. The buyer gives me his number and asks me to message him. So I did. This man Dante said he would buy this book for his nephew for his birthday. THAT SHOULD’VE BEEN THE RED FLAG! Who buys a used history book for their nephew But since I am too trusting of people I let it slide, I thought maybe his nephew is a history nerd. This is exactly what he says to me via text message, “ I want it shipped to my Nephew in Georgia as his birthday gift. i would like you to also get a eBay Gift Card of $300 included in the package before shipment. i work with the US Marines and not able to have it shipped, I will add $300 to your payment for the eBay Gift Card, $30 for gas and stress & $50 to cover for the shipping cost.“ Then he gets super pushy like are you going to do soon... like chill dude I got a lot to do in a day but I said sure why not. After all he was paying me right!? WRONG! I didn’t know I was getting scammed until I got an email from “paypal” saying something a long the lines of that before the transaction transfers, I need to send verification that I bought the eBay gift cards. Thankfully there was a huge red warning that said this could be scam. Also RED FLAGS that I kinda let slide too becasue I was like okay it might be a mistake. So I ask him so I send you the verification and he said, “ Once you purchase the gift card send the picture of the gift card with receipt to PayPal they will tell you what to do okay ?” That is when HIT ME! Bc I know PayPal doesn’t do such things or have such features. So I searched online and found this and thank goodness I did. I blocked him and forwarded the email to PayPal!!!
