I have some items on local Craigslist. I recieved this email regarding one of them.
"Hello,
Thanks for the mail, i am presently in Houston on a Oil spillage
clean-up training course as a facility engineer of BP Oil Company. Am
ordering for this musical instrument because is urgently needed to be
delivered to my church for choir.
I am on a world Oil spillage clean-up training programme, I am also a
UN worker, due to the nature of the training that is going on here,
visiting of website are restricted but I squeezed out time to check
this advert because I received mail from my church pastor that is
urgently needed that is why I send you an email regarding it.
I can only send you a PayPal payment which protects me and you from
scam and fraud, I insisted on paypal because I don't have access to my
bank account online as I don't have internet banking, but I can pay
from my paypal account, as I have my bank account attached to it,
I will need you to give me your paypal email address so I can make the
payments asap for the instrument 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.
I have a pick up agent that will come and pick the item up after you
cash the money
Thanks"
On the surface it looks legit, but it has the hair on the back of my neck standing up!
Has anyone seen this response before? Feels real scammy but I can't figure out why.
Thanks
"Hello,
Thanks for the mail, i am presently in Houston on a Oil spillage
clean-up training course as a facility engineer of BP Oil Company. Am
ordering for this musical instrument because is urgently needed to be
delivered to my church for choir.
I am on a world Oil spillage clean-up training programme, I am also a
UN worker, due to the nature of the training that is going on here,
visiting of website are restricted but I squeezed out time to check
this advert because I received mail from my church pastor that is
urgently needed that is why I send you an email regarding it.
I can only send you a PayPal payment which protects me and you from
scam and fraud, I insisted on paypal because I don't have access to my
bank account online as I don't have internet banking, but I can pay
from my paypal account, as I have my bank account attached to it,
I will need you to give me your paypal email address so I can make the
payments asap for the instrument 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.
I have a pick up agent that will come and pick the item up after you
cash the money
Thanks"
On the surface it looks legit, but it has the hair on the back of my neck standing up!
Has anyone seen this response before? Feels real scammy but I can't figure out why.
Thanks