Buying & Scamming

bbigford

So I recently did a price drop on some newer photography gear, and a home lab server. When I reposted, I immediately started getting scammers texting me. The area codes were all spread out so I didn't think much about those. There was one though that is in my area code (living in rural Idaho, the whole state the same area code though, so...)

Fast forward, the scammer appeared to be a scammer as any other. They wanted to pay via PayPal, and do UPS Next Day Air a few states away. I can see where that's going... Ship it out real quick, the payment has a few days to process, and then pull the payment from PayPal.

How does someone get the payment pulled, when the tracking number would clearly show delivery? Short of processing a false payment... If that were the case, how could they do that when PayPal has to verify the payment method during submission of information?

DustinB3403

They've likely stolen the payment method, be it cc or whatever. And they are trying to buy as much as possible while the payment method is still usable.

As for the cancellation, they don't care, because you have to dispute the payment with PayPal, not them

Alex Sage

@BBigford post the items here, someone might be interested

bbigford

@DustinB3403 said:

They've likely stolen the payment method, be it cc or whatever. And they are trying to buy as much as possible while the payment method is still usable.

As for the cancellation, they don't care, because you have to dispute the payment with PayPal, not them

Eesh, yeah. Good point.