[ale] [OT] PayPal

[Stephen Haywood]

Paypal is reliable but... All the buyer should need is your paypal email
address. If they are requesting more info such as full name, etc then I
would treat it as a scam.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

> What I know about PayPal would fit in a thimble with plenty of room left
> over for my thumb.
>
> BUT . . . .
>
> we are trying to sell some furniture on Craig's list and have had one
> >possibly< serious inquiry.  But we are suspicious.  The "buyer" asked,
> among other things, if we were the first owner -- of chairs that are almost
> certainly pre-war (aka "The Late Unpleasantness" here in Atlanta) and are
> advertised as such.
>
> He wants to pay via PayPal -- without actually seeing the chairs!
>
> He wrote in part:
>
> > Thanks for the email, I will send Your payment as soon as
> > I receive Your PayPal email id, You will receive a notification
> > receipt email from PayPal as soon as Am through with the payment.Just
> > follow the Instructions and procedures on the payment in order to get
> > the funds credited into Your PayPal account so that you can easily
> > transfer the money to your bank account or credit card. as soon as the
> > funds reflect on your PayPal account......
> >
> > Do get back to me now with your PayPal email address and full name so
> > i can proceed with the payment asap.
>
> As a second generation newspaper editor my cynical gene is somewhat over-
> developed and this offer (to me) smells like it was dragged up from the
> bottom of the Chesapeake Bay -- up around Baltimore.
>
> So, how reliable is PayPal, anyway?
>
> Sean
>
>
>
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