Do scammers ever give up?

hi boo boo
short anwer no-
they have 24hrs a day to use for hacking
there loosers who have nothing -so anything they can gain by default is a plus including a jail term

had one try and crack my paypal acct just recently something in the email name put me on the alert and made me realize something didnt add up
so rang paypal who comfirmed it was a hacker from the UK
i had to change my registered details
ok since
cheers

Unbelievable until now...
I placed an advert in the trading post this morning at around 8am and 5 hours later have had 4 emails and 3 txts to my mobile... all scammers!!
cheers
John

Hi all,
I would find it interesting if you could paste the text from the scammer’s emails into your posts.
Not only from curiosity, but it may help in identifying their techniques.
Regards Dennis

They usually go like
"I am working offshore on an oil rig/merchant ship/whatever" and I want to buy your XXXXX as a gift for my dad/sister /brother/ etc ."
Regards Philip A

I just don't know where they get all their money from and they don't even want to negotiate prices..... in some cases they are the ideal buyers LOL!

When we had our camper trailer listed 12 mths ago we had 3 scammers including one who wanted more photo's and details..... the one who wanted more photo's and details I'm sure was going to set up a fake add using our photo's and information and try and suck someone in....... you know the type "$40,000 camper trailer only done 5,000k for sale for only $8,999".... what a bargain.

I see on average 10 adds a week in the Adelaide Advertiser news paper that are fraudulent.... you know the ones- big add + picture + Gmail email address + cheap price = scammer.

On a bit of a different note I feel sorry for legit people who have a "Hotmail, Gmail etc." type email account as we have stopped responding to people with these accounts at work and I know many others who have to.

The sad thing is so many people can't resist a bargain even if it is to good to be true..... there is a scammer going around to businesses in Adelaide selling Iphones.... 12 x Iphone valued at $9,000 for a once off price of only $5,000.... guess what it seems they are selling a few.

I had one just last week. Apparently he worked on an oil rig and just did'nt have the time to come and view the vehicle but would trust me and buy it through paypal.
I offered to stick oars out the windows and row it out to him, but he never got back to me.
Capt.

Of course they wont give up... its their job. No scam - no pay.

Well, I guess they are very much alive and well.

The first text I ever got looked pretty good until I texted backed that I didn't have photos at the moment, he texted backed that photos didn't matter and that he would buy etc, etc.

I think if you advertise something and give out a phone number and they reply by email or text then you should smell a rat.

Anyway at the moment it seems easier to sell a troopy than a campertrailer.....hmmmmmm.

They target ebay aswell. I had 2 yesterday by email offering to buy my item now for more than the auction price. They had poor english and grammar and looked computer generated "have you still the item, is the item good condition, I am buy this item now" etc etc ...........it was wheels and tyres and neither email mentioned wheels or tyres only "the item" .....losers.

Hi all,
I regularly use Paypal to purchase items but have never sold anything using their services.
Thousands sell, using their services but I wouldn’t, based on information from this site.
From what I understand from reading these posts, is that the scammers pay for the advertised item through Paypal prior to delivery. On delivery they then claim a refund from Paypal for reasons such as item not delivered or incorrectly described. That scenario I can understand but I would have thought Paypal would contact the seller for confirmation, before refunding the scammer.

Has anyone had an actual experience or advice from Paypal that they would refund the scammer without the sellers approval?

I can’t understand why a direct credit to my bank account should be a risk. Businesses regularly give out their account numbers to enable their customers to transfer money into them. The account number alone is not a risk – there is also a need for Id number and password to debit money from an account.

So where does the risk come from with direct credits to my account?

I have not raised these matters frivolously and would appreciate any information you may have.

Regards Dennis

Has anyone had an actual experience or advice from Paypal that they would refund the scammer without the sellers approval

Yes - my daughter (ebay paypal seller etc) sent items to a returning "customer".
Customer reports that an unauthorised transaction appears on her credit card and complains to PayPal.
Paypal immediately takes money off my daughter and starts investigation.
Daughter provides details of sale including emails from "customer" dates etc.
PayPal finds in favour of the customer and daughter loses $500.

Good on you for picking them up Boo Boo and I wouldn’t hesitate at all to tell them what to do with their BS offer.

You’re almost guaranteed to get this issue when selling online through classifieds but there are a few tips you can use to protect yourself

- Use a home number to avoid random text messages.
- Call phone numbers to confirm authenticity if they do text you.
- Keep an eye on “odd” looking email addresses from hotmails/gmails/etc, but remember real people do use these web based mails applications as well.
- Be on the outlook for “stock emails” that don’t relate to specifics: “Hi, I'm interested in your car and ready to make a quick purchase. I'm willing to offer $200 above your price.” is a perfect example. No mention of what car or what price.
- Offering overpayment for an item is almost guaranteed a scam.
- If posting an item, never post until you’ve confirmed funds have cleared your bank. Never trust a paypal receipt or link to external payment website. Check your own bank.
- If the worst does happen and you lose money to a scam, go straight to Scamwatch and report the scam. They can help you recover your money.
- This website can also be used to report scams that you don’t lose money too. Information your report can help track regular offenders and create trends to help catching these lowlifes.

The less these losers take, the less of them there will be over time.

I had a quite few when I sold my 4runner. The dude offered me $3K more than I wanted. Said he wanted it for his brother in NZ. I thought "why would you pay 3 grand more for a 19 year old 4runner and send it to NZ to surprise his bro. They must hate each other. He even wanted to buy my 6x4 trailer for $1500. I played their game for a while then told them (not so politely) to go forth & do their thing for world population.

I spoke to a guy last night who's selling a motorbike. He had a few. When I bought my Triton 2nd hand recently, he'd had a few. And so on. The common link here is putting your mobile number in the ad. From now on if I place an ad on ebay or the like, no mobile numbers. I will only a question through the system. No response to sms.

Hi there Boo Boo, I have had them strung on for a while having fun, emails back n forth, till in the end told them to f off and reported them etc. I just emailed a ebay user yesterday to let them know some one was using there account to try and sell some stuff for a prado, didnt hear anything back but did notice the add gone. If I see any of this crap going on now I just report it straight away. I feel sorry for some people who have lost money but some people are also so bloody stupid, Who in there write mind would put 10g or more, even less into some ones account with out seeing what they are buying ?? I just bought a second hand amp for outside, was only $100 He wanted me to put it into his account straight away so he new I was genuine. told him Ill give him the $$ when I pick it up, he was ok with that. Not to bad with paypal as your covered although they have changed the policy on car purchases I believe not sure if thats true or not...................

A mob called 419eater used to scam the scammers. havnt looked at their site for a while but the did some doozys.
Cheers

I think we give them far too much air-time...

Just ignore the obvious ones and don't even engage them, tempting as it is you're wasting your time, not theirs, they don't give a rats what you think and by the time you've fired off an email they've probably tried to scam another 1,000 people one way or the other.

My two bob’s worth...