Apply For a MortgagePublished: June 26th, 2011 • Last Updated: January 7th, 2021
Author: Ross Taylor on AskRoss.ca
You don’t always have to be a private investigator to pick up on a scam when selling your things online
It’s not like I am an investigative reporter or anything of the kind. I just happen to be selling a few things online and I get mostly responses like the one below – I sure hope if you are ever selling something online your antennae go up when you get something like this.
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:31:21 +0100
Subject: Re: Hyundai Accent 2001
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Hello ,
Thanks for the mail, i am buying this for my son,i am a petroleum engineer currently on a rig offshore i really want this to be a surprise gift for my son so i wont let him know anything about this until it gets delivered to him , i am sure he will be more than happy with it.I can only pay with PayPal here, i will need you to give me your PayPal email address so i can make the payments asap and please if you don’t have PayPal account yet, it is very easy to set up, go to www.paypal.com and get it set up , after you have set it up i will only need the e-mail address you use for registration with PayPal so as to put the money through.
note well: Pick up agent will come for the pick up as soon as i have made the payments, i would have loved to talk to you on phone but I work mainly offshore, our phone is down on the rig right now due to bad weather, we can only communicate with our base for now.
Thanks
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