Is this scam scheme really supposed to work?
It's been used so many times... where is the creativity?
Hello,
Thanks for your quick response, I will pay $1,700 for the Fanatic Shark 160..I am currently on the ship due to the nature of my work, I'll be paying you with my credit card via my PayPal, If my offer is accepted.. The payment will be made through PayPal, But you will have to get back to me with the following information so that my pick up agent will come and pick up as soon as possible...However, I'm ready to pay now into your account...
Your Name and address:
And your PayPal email:
In case you don't have a PayPal account..Its reliable and easy to use PayPal it is the best way to transfer money,all you need to do is visit www.paypal.com.au and register with them. When you are done with the registration send me the email used for the registration with PayPal so i can pay make your payment.
Make sure you get back to me so that we can arrange for pick up as i will like the item to be picked,so no shipping..
Await for your swift response.
Mary.
I accept that the message is a scam, but how does it work?
PayPal is safe and reliable. It will cost you, I think, 8% of the price to receive the money from PayPal, but that's nothing in the scheme of things. You can pass the PayPal fee to the buyer if you want.
You wouldn't send the bad guy your password or the board until the money is cleared from PayPal. I doubt if the scam is about getting a free board from you.
How does the bad guy get an advantage out of this?
The con is in sending sending the registration email that paypal sends you.
Granted most people wouldn't. But the autologin features of a confirmation email means he has full access to your credit card, as long as he buys things through paypal 
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she certainly gets around. Second time they even offered me 700 dollars for an advertised 600 dollar sail. 
The link that she/he sent was supposedly a paypal site.
When I sent them a money request through my secure paypal account the next email was from a different e-mail address...
www.paypal.com/au/home/ this is the generated website they are using. Do Not use it!!
They use the same scheme for everything these days.
When I was selling the motorbike, they tried the same thing.
Where is the imagination gone?
re: how
At the bike forums I was told about a scheme with a dispatcher. You have to pay the dispatcher, and they are "transferring the money to your account" then they withdraw the funds, etc.
If it's too good to be true, probably isn't.
What do you think would happen with Paypal then? They clear the funds.
Also, an email address is not sufficient to break into your account.
Previosly I deliberately wasted a lot off their time by maintaining futile discssusions.
There are easier ways to cause them some grief.
Like in this case, where it's so obviously a scam, you arrange everything and give another pick-up address so they pay the courier, but don't get the goods?
Still, a bit hesitant to give them any account details...
This "Mary" person has been shut down, they managed to get a couple of emails out, and all those people have been helpful enough to let me know, so we could take action.
Thanks! 
I just got emailed "Stage 2" of the scam...
That sounds more like it - once you're "hooked" they give some excuse why it can't happen via Paypal and suddenly they want it to go through Western Union where there are few safeguards and it's easy for money to disappear.
I can't see how giving someone your email address can give them access to your Paypal account. They would need the password as well. They can't even reset your password to something they know because they would need to be able to access your email account to do that, which again would require a password - and naturally you haven't used the SAME PASSWORD have you..??? [}:)][}:)][}:)]
EDIT: I like the idea about the fake pickup address! With luck and a little bit of effort, you could probably string them along for two or three pickups before they catch on. 
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OK, Paypal needs some competition, so the fees are reduced, but apart from the fees, my experience with them is positive.
To come back to the topic, the police could easily pick the guy(s). So easy to follow the trace, and play along...
With my bike I irritated the guy quite badly, acting dumb about not knowing how to open a paypal account preferign a money order. Instructing him how to do it etc.
Jerked him around for 3-4 days (the work was slow, nothing else to do:-).
Got him threatening me through the process, sending frustrated messages, and reduced to begging towards the end. Quite a show they put up.
I was also thinking:
Acting like you are doing everything they ask you to, but not doing it. (May do it next time)
Even sending an old Klapper beginners board accross the ocean.
They just tried to scam me with the same thing. From Mary Hilson. Bad english and wanted to pay more than I offered via email, so I searched for Mary Hilson's name on the internet. Didn't get a clear hit so I searched Seabreeze and found this thread.
Thanks for the warning guys!
