I posted a setting of wedding rings on craigslist for $500. I immediately got a reply about my post from a Gardic **** with the e-mail address of gardic112 informing me that he would like to purchase the rings as a gift and offered me an additional $100 for shipping via UPS. I informed him that I would only ship via FedEx and that I would need the shipping address or zip so that I can get a proper shipping quote from fedex.com that way he doesn't end up overpaying. He never replied to any of my e-mail with the shipping location but rather kept insisting on sending the paypal payment of $600.
Almost immediately after that, I got an e-mail from PayPal.com®" which informed an "Obed ****" that a payment has been made to my paypal account in the amount of $600 and that it would not be made available until the package is shipped and inform the buyer of the tracking information. The e-mail address from which that e-mail was sent is what alerted me; prior to any supposed transactions, I made changes to my paypal profile and got alerts from paypal confirming the changes. The e-mail address from which the change confirmations came from were paypal.com" and not "PayPal.com®" . The e-mails both from the real and fake paypal came one of top of the other in my inbox which made it so obvious that PayPal.com® was trying to scam me.
Following the first e-mail from the scammers, I got another e-mail from"PayPal.com®" which had the subject line of: "ALART***You Are Safe And Secure With Online PayPal Transaction***". Apparently this fake paypal doesn't know how to spell.
Be alert, or in their case, ALART.
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