Yahoo or hotmail

[sasuke2022]

Hi,

I am selling my car on gum tree and the buyer said to use payal, however, they have emailed me and said the following "Can you kindly please setup an email like yahoo, Gmail or AOL account & attach it to your PayPal account so that when payment made to your PayPal account, it can clear in your account in time. Let me know once you have setup the email." 

is this a scam, please advise. any help would be appreciated. 

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@sasuke2022 

SCAM.

They encourage you to accept a direct Paypal payment and need to know your email address to send you fake paypal emails.
No funds or activity of the transaction shows in your Paypal account and any emails may go into your junk/spam folders.

They don't quibble on cost and may also say they can't view the item as they are disabled or working abroad or sending as a gift to a family member but they will arrange a shipping agent or courier to collect it.

You will get/got a "fake" email that looks as though it is from paypal.....it isn't because they don't have a Paypal account and have no intention of paying you.
It will say the buyer has paid ...you won't have been paid.

The fake paypal email will tell you that the buyer has paid for the item + shipping costs but you must send those shipping costs to the courier/ shipping agent via another payment processor than Paypal or by providing some vouchers or tokens before the funds are released to you.
They are not interested in the car, they just want that couriers/shipping funds and you will never see money in your paypal balance.

They also sometimes threaten legal action...have a laugh at that one and ignore it as its rubbish.

Paypal NEVER tell you to do anything until the payment is showing in your paypal account.
Paypal NEVER expect you to use a rival money transfer service eg Moneygram, Western Union, Bank Transfer or any sort of gift token or voucher to pay a courier or delivery agent.
There is no seller protection on paypal for any type of motor vehicle.

Delete any emails and ignore the scammers.

[sasuke2022]

Thank you, the buyer said they were disabled and they wanted to buy it for their daughter as a gift and agreed to a very high price. Now I know thanks.