@RaeAlphi wrote: I recently listed two rings on craigslist. I had one reply, with an offer of an extra $100 to pay for shipping. they are a marine officer, and due to the nature of their job cannot pick the ring up themselves, want it packaged nicely for a birthday gift for their friend. They asked for my paypal email. I went ahead and gave it to them. I'm not shipping it until the money is safely in my bank acct. I replied again to the buyer later, to ask a few more details. I haven't heard back, and its been about 12 hours. (She did have good spelling, decent grammar, but there is zero punctuation in the whole email) I happened to wake up around 430 am (two year old who is refusing to sleep through the night at the moment), to another email (second email from the person) stating they are glad I still have the ring for sale, offering an extra $100 for shipping to West Africa. and asking for my paypal email. I let him know i may already have a pending transaction. I don't want to put anyone out. (also run on - no punctuation, spelling ok, but didn't even bother to use capitals?) I started to get suspicious though. Its very convenient I got two emails within around 10-12 hours, both wanting them shipped overseas... I immediately got up and changed all account passwords. None of them are the same. Any other thoughts on these being scams? I'm fairly certain at least one of them is! I tried to put as much info in as possible. Please let me know if anyone else has had these! One of the names is Sandra Bett (gmail acct), and the other is Like Williams (an aol acct) Well, they're both scams, of course. If someone asks for your paypal email name, you'll get a form that looks like it's from paypal ( it's not), stating that money has been paid into your account, but it won't be posted until you ship the item by express mail and put the dc number in the link provided. You lose the ring because there never was any money, and the scammer gets your password and likely downloads a keylogger to your computer to steal other passwords. NEVER sign in to your Paypal account from an email link. And, to make your Paypal account bullet-proof, visit the security center in your Paypal account and buy one of their security keys for $5. It puts a separate, randomly-generated numerical password on your account that changes every 30 seconds and cannot be hijacked, even if the scammer has your password.
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