I just had to share this story...
We recently won a brand new iPhone4 and as we already had an iPhone each, we decided to sell it on Gumtree.
I received a text message from someone in the Ukraine wanting to buy it. A few emails back and forth and we had negotiated a price we were both happy with. They were buying the item as a birthday gift for someone so they wanted to complete the transaction immediately and offered to pay via Pay Pal. I agreed.
Next I received confirmation from the buyer that the payment had been made. I also received email below supposedly from Pay Pal.
Subject: ***Message From PayPal*** You have a payment pending on our systems***
From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected].
Dear Valued Customer
This message is sent to you as a confirmation of payment from one of our client ” (Mrs Marihana Kapush) regarding the sales of your Goods (iphone4 ) .Which has not appeared in your PayPal account In answer to this, we want you to know that the payment is already pending in your account but will not be visible to you until we receive your response to the payment that was made by the buyer of the items. This is due to the new policy of PayPal to protect both the buyer and seller from any fraudulent activities.So we strongly advise you to sent the item(s) to the buyer’s provided address and send the Scanned Receipt and the Shipment to prove postage in less than 6 hours so that we can fund the money into your account.
We want you to know that as soon as we receive the Shipment Scan Receipt / Tracking number that was requested from you, the money will be credited to you account within the next 6 hours of your response to the payment.
Ensure you get back to us because we do not want any delay in crediting your account.
For response email us at [email protected]
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Notice where the email was sent from? A gmail account!
I advised Mrs Marihana Kapush very politely that I didn't appreciate her dishonest behaviour and that I had reported her to the authorities.
I expected her not to respond but to my surprise she did. This is what she wrote:
am highly disappointed in you.. by the way what do you mean victim of fraud… I had paid for the phone and I believe paypal had also notify you and I believe I’d clear to you that I had pay for your item…. so kindly comply with paypal and get the phone ship out first thing on Monday so that my bank can verify the shipment details and complete the transaction of fund into your account….
there is nothing to be worry about ok… because I paid already for the phone and am not a cheat person.
am 100% guarantee and assuring of your money immediately paypal see the shipment details to verify your money will be completed into your account without any delay
Then this:
hey! look Don’t play funny with me cos I paid the iPhone already…. I don’t play with my money cos I work for it.
What can you do but laugh.
Sorry, I know this is a long post but I had to share it with you guys.
We recently won a brand new iPhone4 and as we already had an iPhone each, we decided to sell it on Gumtree.
I received a text message from someone in the Ukraine wanting to buy it. A few emails back and forth and we had negotiated a price we were both happy with. They were buying the item as a birthday gift for someone so they wanted to complete the transaction immediately and offered to pay via Pay Pal. I agreed.
Next I received confirmation from the buyer that the payment had been made. I also received email below supposedly from Pay Pal.
Subject: ***Message From PayPal*** You have a payment pending on our systems***
From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected].
Dear Valued Customer
This message is sent to you as a confirmation of payment from one of our client ” (Mrs Marihana Kapush) regarding the sales of your Goods (iphone4 ) .Which has not appeared in your PayPal account In answer to this, we want you to know that the payment is already pending in your account but will not be visible to you until we receive your response to the payment that was made by the buyer of the items. This is due to the new policy of PayPal to protect both the buyer and seller from any fraudulent activities.So we strongly advise you to sent the item(s) to the buyer’s provided address and send the Scanned Receipt and the Shipment to prove postage in less than 6 hours so that we can fund the money into your account.
We want you to know that as soon as we receive the Shipment Scan Receipt / Tracking number that was requested from you, the money will be credited to you account within the next 6 hours of your response to the payment.
Ensure you get back to us because we do not want any delay in crediting your account.
For response email us at [email protected]
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Notice where the email was sent from? A gmail account!
I advised Mrs Marihana Kapush very politely that I didn't appreciate her dishonest behaviour and that I had reported her to the authorities.
I expected her not to respond but to my surprise she did. This is what she wrote:
am highly disappointed in you.. by the way what do you mean victim of fraud… I had paid for the phone and I believe paypal had also notify you and I believe I’d clear to you that I had pay for your item…. so kindly comply with paypal and get the phone ship out first thing on Monday so that my bank can verify the shipment details and complete the transaction of fund into your account….
there is nothing to be worry about ok… because I paid already for the phone and am not a cheat person.
am 100% guarantee and assuring of your money immediately paypal see the shipment details to verify your money will be completed into your account without any delay
Then this:
hey! look Don’t play funny with me cos I paid the iPhone already…. I don’t play with my money cos I work for it.
What can you do but laugh.
Sorry, I know this is a long post but I had to share it with you guys.