Hi - I have listed a mirror on Gumtree and this morning received a text from a potential buyer - stellawayne111 @g**l.com asking me to email them back if it was still available. I did so and send me the following email :
"Thanks for your response,
I want you to consider this a deal as i am willing to pay your full asking price! i actually want to buy it for a family member who is urgently in need of it, i have checked through your posting and i'm fully satisfied with it.
Unfortunately, i would not be able to come personally to view/collect, i work offshore as an instructor on a oil rig so i dont have time at all, but like i said i am 100% OK with the advert.
However, i have a reliable courier that would help me to pick it up at your preferred location after you have received your money via PayPal as that is the only means of payment available to me at the moment. I would also appreciate if you could remove the advert asap.
To start off with, please get back to me with suitable collection time so that i can inform the courier agent about it now."
I immediately smelt a rat but wanted to see what happened if I gave him my Paypal username. I did this and got the next email with the scam about the payment being pending and how I needed to pay MoneyGram the couriers amount before the full amount would be released to my account !!
I logged into Paypal and of course there was no notification of any pending amount. Looking carefully at the email notification I received, allegedly from Paypal, its immediatley obvious that it isn't authentic because its from a gmail account. I just wanted to post this as I see this scam has already been tried with Selling Cars on Gumtree !
