starcrafttom
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yeah, this is copied from the link above. same wording and in the end they wanted $1000 for the shipper. Its a scam just as I thought and nothing else.
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yeah, this is copied from the link above. same wording and in the end they wanted $1000 for the shipper. Its a scam just as I thought and nothing else.
If you do a search on "I am a marine engineer manager" you will find many many scams with this letter.
It sounds like one method he uses it to make a fake payment from "paypa1" (note the 1 that is not an l) with an accidental overpayment and then asks you to immediately refund the difference. Sounds like he responds quickly to changing circumstances and is really creative in ways to get you to send him money all the while looking like he is sending you money.
This marine engineer has tried to buy half the western world!
Ron
It sounds like one method he uses it to make a fake payment from "paypa1" (note the 1 that is not an l) with an accidental overpayment and then asks you to immediately refund the difference. Sounds like he responds quickly to changing circumstances and is really creative in ways to get you to send him money all the while looking like he is sending you money.
This marine engineer has tried to buy half the western world!
Ron
Levitation
New member
I also feel the opening lines are suspicious... What I was asking Tom is how the scam would proceed (and he answered) for my edification...
I trust PayPal (doesn't mean I like them - we have had our little dust-ups over the years)...
They did me a good turn about a year back when I was intent on getting a Garmin 496 for my plane... The scammer was good... Would only accept payment from PayPal... Had 'satisfied customers' listed for phone contact. (obviously part of the scam) He listed a store in Baltimore and took a phone call from me, and like all scammers, was friendly and sounded up front.. (Paypal said their investigation revealed that the store was actually an answering machine that transferred the call to Skype to him in Hong Kong)
So anyway, after I entered a payment for $1400 to him Paypal immediately froze the payment - and initially would not tell me why (keeping my money in limbo)...
I managed to get a phone number to Paypal's fraud supervisor (getting that # that was a war in itself) Anyway, she confirmed my money was frozen and he had been given ten days to show proof of delivery before she would release the monies to him...
Well, he went nuts... Sending me a half dozen emails every day, calling me in the middle of the night claiming she had a personal vendetta against him after he refused to marry her, and all I had to do was send him a personal check and he would send the GPS, and on, and on... The guy needs to go into acting and be a star because he is convincing...
But, once warned twice shy and I just kept repeating, "you heard the lady"... Eventually he gave up...
On the morning of the 11th day I checked my credit card and the $1400 had been credited at one minute after midnight...
I trust PayPal (doesn't mean I like them - we have had our little dust-ups over the years)...
They did me a good turn about a year back when I was intent on getting a Garmin 496 for my plane... The scammer was good... Would only accept payment from PayPal... Had 'satisfied customers' listed for phone contact. (obviously part of the scam) He listed a store in Baltimore and took a phone call from me, and like all scammers, was friendly and sounded up front.. (Paypal said their investigation revealed that the store was actually an answering machine that transferred the call to Skype to him in Hong Kong)
So anyway, after I entered a payment for $1400 to him Paypal immediately froze the payment - and initially would not tell me why (keeping my money in limbo)...
I managed to get a phone number to Paypal's fraud supervisor (getting that # that was a war in itself) Anyway, she confirmed my money was frozen and he had been given ten days to show proof of delivery before she would release the monies to him...
Well, he went nuts... Sending me a half dozen emails every day, calling me in the middle of the night claiming she had a personal vendetta against him after he refused to marry her, and all I had to do was send him a personal check and he would send the GPS, and on, and on... The guy needs to go into acting and be a star because he is convincing...
But, once warned twice shy and I just kept repeating, "you heard the lady"... Eventually he gave up...
On the morning of the 11th day I checked my credit card and the $1400 had been credited at one minute after midnight...
Levitation wrote;
They did me a good turn about a year back when I was intent on getting a Garmin 496 for my plane... The scammer was good... Would only accept payment from PayPal... Had 'satisfied customers' listed for phone contact. (obviously part of the scam) He listed a store in Baltimore and took a phone call from me, and like all scammers, was friendly and sounded up front.. (Paypal said their investigation revealed that the store was actually an answering machine that transferred the call to Skype to him in Hong Kong)
So anyway, after I entered a payment for $1400 to him Paypal immediately froze the payment - and initially would not tell me why (keeping my money in limbo)...
This is great info and thanks for taking the time to post. I have had dealings with others that wanted to only be paid by Paypal. I always opted out. Now I'm glad I did.
H :wink:
They did me a good turn about a year back when I was intent on getting a Garmin 496 for my plane... The scammer was good... Would only accept payment from PayPal... Had 'satisfied customers' listed for phone contact. (obviously part of the scam) He listed a store in Baltimore and took a phone call from me, and like all scammers, was friendly and sounded up front.. (Paypal said their investigation revealed that the store was actually an answering machine that transferred the call to Skype to him in Hong Kong)
So anyway, after I entered a payment for $1400 to him Paypal immediately froze the payment - and initially would not tell me why (keeping my money in limbo)...
This is great info and thanks for taking the time to post. I have had dealings with others that wanted to only be paid by Paypal. I always opted out. Now I'm glad I did.
H :wink: