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Offline dodds-gttdi

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Re: Am i being scammed ?
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2012, 08:08:35 pm »
Scam if ever I saw one. However instead of pointing This out as soon as possible to your "buyer" why not have some fun with them? I had a few offers like this when selling a previous car. I promised the money so so many times to them, tried to sound as gullible as they come and arranged many many times to pick the agent up from the airport, the the train station. Then eventually my local town. Except it wasn't. After being questioned, I suggested to the "buyer" that Glasgow was virtually right next door to Edinburgh and he might as well get the train there. I (obviously) never turned up once, and neither did he/she. In the end he got so furious I was dilly-dallying about, it was hilarious. Neither of us meant to keep any of our promises and nobody got hurt.

A massive waste of time tho, I had time to kill back then. :wink: Definite scam tho, I'll see if I can recall any old emails and compare notes with you. :happy2:

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Re: Am i being scammed ?
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2012, 09:15:21 pm »
Definite scam, email not really from paypal but made to look official and appears to have come from them, very simple to do.

You can check roughly where the email originated from by pasting the email header into here:

http://www.iptrackeronline.com/email-header-analysis.php

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Re: Am i being scammed ?
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2012, 09:21:03 pm »
^^^^ that's a handy tip. Will use that myself in future! 

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Re: Am i being scammed ?
« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2012, 09:26:20 am »
Looks fine to me ;-), by the way I have your euro lottery winnings, can you send me £500 to cover the admin fees and I send the winnings on :-)
« Last Edit: August 23, 2012, 12:17:12 pm by mad_pete »

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Re: Am i being scammed ?
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2012, 09:34:01 am »
SCAM...............Just reply "FOOK OFF" in an email in large text and block the guys email addy, end of.................
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Re: Am i being scammed ?
« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2012, 10:27:08 am »
if you followed a link of this email they sent you, then typed your paypal details in, i suggest going to paypals website directly and changing said details.