For Sale: Ebay scam??

I'm selling on ebay at the moment, and i have received some emails.
Seems a scam to me? Anyone heard this one before???

This is the second mail I have received.

Thanks for the mail, i am buying this for my son as his birthday gift because i would not be around to celebrate with him i am a petroleum engineer currently on a rig offshore in UK and due to the nature of my work,phone calls making and visiting of website are restricted but i squeezed out time to check this advert and send you an email regarding it. In case if you will want to call me to talk to me on phone you can easily call me on this number +44702404****. I really want this item to be a surprise gift for my son so i wont let him know anything about the item until it gets delivered to him , i am sure he will be more than happy with the item.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 a/c attached to it, i will need you to give me your PayPal email address so i can make the payment as soon as possible for the item and pls if you don't have PayPal account yet,it is very easy to set up, go on 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 for the pick up immediately you have receive the payment in full.what is your final price including the paypal charges?.

Sounds fine, supplying the email address for your Paypal is the norm, its what I do on here if I am buying from someone that wants a paypal payment... Story is a bit unnecessary

i think it is yeh, i got a few of them before. on gumtree too!

http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9089&start=15

http://blog.gumtree.com/paypal-scam-alert/#comment-8061

wrong .....certainly looks like a lot of bullshit ! if you arrange with them pick up as he suggests , and they dont deliver to the registered paypal address of the buyer , you are liable to refund if the item goes missing . which by the looks of it it will !

next he will tell you his son is in nigeria and for the love of jesus blah blah !

I bet you £20 that after you give him your address he'll say something along the lines of "I'll include £250 on top, could you please give it to the guy who picks the bike up".

It's a classic fraud- used to be done with company cheques as they always clear.

You'll get money in your PayPal, hand over the bike and some cash, then PayPal will pull the money back as it has come from a hacked account.

You'll be down the bike and some cash- and with nothing you can do about it.

Report to eBay.

you are liable to refund if the item goes missing . which by the looks of it it will !

Thats interesting, I didn't think of the delivery part... I'd ring the number see what else he makes up

Thanks everyone!! Dmczone, that was spot on. Thanks
I did a search on google, but didn't find that.

wouldnt bother they just try to get you hooked !
i shipped some ebay /paypal stuff unrecorded , it went "missing" although the guy asked me to send standard post and then i found out i am liable if i have no proof of what address it was sent to .....:(

You will give him your paypal email then shortly after will receive a fake email from paypal telling you that they are holding tthe funds until the buyer confirms delivery as protection against fraud. I speak from experience as I have had the same thing happen to me. Give him your paypal email and see what happens then report him to paypal.

You will give him your paypal email then shortly after will receive a fake email from paypal telling you that they are holding tthe funds until the buyer confirms delivery as protection against fraud. I speak from experience as I have had the same thing happen to me. Give him your paypal email and see what happens then report him to paypal.

That old trick nearly caught me out, it looks genuine enough as well, gotta give the bastards credit for that

surely a mix of his story, and very dodgy grammar is a bit of a giveaway? they've come a long way since the western union days of old...

Exactly, just him giving me a number made me not sure!

It's worth reporting it to eBay as well because if he is using a hacked account they can restore it to it's rightful owner who may not even be aware of the situation.

It came direct to my email though, not through ebay.

defo a scam mat,i do a lot on ebay and my preferance is paypal but you have to adhear to thier rules,this is where they are trying to scam you with the pick up,you say they picked it up,they say they didn't receive it,they get funds back and your minus funds and a set o wheels,report the fukas

That is a scam through and through. Not one sentence of the message sounds genuine.