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Originally Posted by MrsPeanut  I am selling on ebay right now and I was wondering how you got scammed. I am a little worried now |
I sold a video game console. The buyer supposidly put the money in my paypal acct. I got the email from paypal (or what i thought was paypal) that the money was there but was held until i shipped. I shipped to Nigeria (i had no knowledge of Nigerian Fraud). Needless to say there was no money and the item was gone. And i paid to ship it. I felt so stupid when i found out i was scammed. Anyway, make sure that any emails you get from paypal or ebay have the correct address up in the address bar on your computer. I was very unexperienced in selling anything, i am usually the buyer. I even had it listed to ship only in the us, but of course this guy gave me a song and dance of how he was away on business and wanted to give it to his boss, blah, blah, blah....good luck...i hope this answered your question so that you can understand. its kind of hard to type it all out.. Im sure your transaction will be fine, just be careful. If you have paypal set up make sure you go to your paypal account yourself to see that the money is there. I didnt do that...just read the fake email and believed it was there. What a dope! Oh well, lesson learned.....
