I just listed a large ticket item $10k for sale, within the hour I had an email from someone very interested and wanted pictures, we agreed on the sale and he was in a big rush to get it asap and wanted to pay by PAYPAL, I didn't have a paypal account so I signed up, then all of a sudden I get notice that the funds have been taken out of his account but are being held by paypal until I go to Western Union and give $900 to a pickup agent, I contacted the purchaser and said I was not comfortable doing this, he had asked originally if he sent me the $900 ontop of the price of the item would I do this for him and I had agreed, but when I said that I did not agree to fork over $900 of my own money to some third party @CST wrote: I have a small home based business & use PayPal for credit card transactions. I recieved a very odd/suspicious contact. They want a large $ order but won't give me any contact information (no phone number, address etc), only contact has been through email. They want the order sent to a suspect adress in Europe (from Canada). They want to pay for the whole thing (product +shipping) with their credit card - would be about $8000. They specify the shipping company to use but address is an email (deltashippingcom@ aol.com) - again very suspicious ! I can't figure out their scam/angle... I wouldn't send product until credit card transaction was cleared. Are they just trying to annoy me & waste my time or is this some scam for paying the shipping company...??? Any help, advice would be appreciated ! Thanks, J and would withdraw the sale he got quite mad at me. I figured that at the end of the day he is the one in a big rush, not me, why on earth am I doing all the running around and paying $900....if he is legit then yes I'm making his life harder, but at the same time if he is legit then he would also understand that putting me in the position of shelling out $900 before I get a dime is also not sitting well with me.
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