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ASE Master Tech - 35 yrs
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Sierra foothills, CA-usa
Posts: 1,107
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thanks for this alert - & X2 on above cautions
the scams have escalated to a new level -
? real money actually came from a legit paypal account but not "nik's" ???? - how does that happen? (oh! - "nik" stole someone's paypal ID & login ?)
was "nik" is somebody who actually wanted those parts - or they have already shown up on ebay? - but still likely somebody who knows porsche parts ?
was the address you sent the stuff to legit? - or just a drop-box pick-up locker?
it only takes about 60 seconds to create a phony user-name gmail account & another 10 mins to become a registered user on a forum - the ones we gotta watch for are the newbies with 0 or minimum posts
- about a yr ago i got burned by an other-porsche-site seller (tho't reputable since it was a registered member) who requested "friends & family" payment & then went silent & disappeared with my money - paypal no help, as you too learned
i learned from that
- paypal is not our friend & it's gotten too easy for buyers to deny - dispute payments, all they have to do is claim "not as described" - with the 3rd party credit cards used thru paypal cancellations involved as well
now, sellers on forums that ask for non-fee money are always suspect....
- and everytime i sell something via paypal i am nervous until about 60 days after the payment rec'd
we all have learned that personal checks & "cashier's checks" should always be suspect
maybe only snail-mail & USPS money orders are safe?
- those a phony user-name gmail scammers have been working our WTB posts for a long time
( i also got burned by one of them about 3 yrs ago when i was desperate for an unobtanium part)
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Last edited by larrym; 10-29-2018 at 11:36 AM..
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