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Title: IS THIS A MAJOR SCAM? Post by: gravitate on September 20, 2013, 05:20:14 PM someone on ebay wanted to but bitcoins from me. 4 for 400. He paid with a womans paypal account sending the payment as a gift. His personal email has a name completely different to the woman's pay pal. Is it a scam? I already sent 0.1 BTC then I started thinking... this is too good to be true.
Title: Re: IS THIS A MAJOR SCAM? Post by: escrow.ms on September 20, 2013, 05:23:00 PM Dont sell bitcoins on ebay for paypal.
Ps: Yes probably someone is trying to pay with a hacked pp. Title: Re: IS THIS A MAJOR SCAM? Post by: BitnessMan on September 20, 2013, 05:23:56 PM That's completely normal, some people just use gift payments on paypal to get around some of the transaction fees. As long as he has a good seller rating on eBay you should send the remaining 3.9 BTC.
Title: Re: IS THIS A MAJOR SCAM? Post by: madmadmax on September 20, 2013, 05:25:23 PM someone on ebay wanted to but bitcoins from me. 4 for 400. He paid with a womans paypal account sending the payment as a gift. His personal email has a name completely different to the woman's pay pal. Is it a scam? I already sent 0.1 BTC then I started thinking... this is too good to be true. Paypal is far from being secure, plenty of accounts are compromised on a regular basis, the cyber criminals then purchase irreversible goods (e.g. jewelry, Bitcoins) with the reversible goods (USD, Euro etc) using the compromised account. 4BTC for 400$ isn't even such a good deal at the current rates. Paypal accounts with balances ranging from 10,000$ to 100,000$ typically cost a couple hundred dollars for cyber criminals. Title: Re: IS THIS A MAJOR SCAM? Post by: gravitate on September 20, 2013, 05:38:58 PM hi this is 400 GBP so 20 GBP more than the going rate each
Title: Re: IS THIS A MAJOR SCAM? Post by: marcotheminer on September 21, 2013, 08:10:00 AM someone on ebay wanted to but bitcoins from me. 4 for 400. He paid with a womans paypal account sending the payment as a gift. His personal email has a name completely different to the woman's pay pal. Is it a scam? I already sent 0.1 BTC then I started thinking... this is too good to be true. Paypal is far from being secure, plenty of accounts are compromised on a regular basis, the cyber criminals then purchase irreversible goods (e.g. jewelry, Bitcoins) with the reversible goods (USD, Euro etc) using the compromised account. 4BTC for 400$ isn't even such a good deal at the current rates. Paypal accounts with balances ranging from 10,000$ to 100,000$ typically cost a couple hundred dollars for cyber criminals. I think thats unacceptable, just paying 1 hundred dollars and a hacker gets a them 10s of thousands.. :/ Title: Re: IS THIS A MAJOR SCAM? Post by: Light on September 21, 2013, 08:13:28 AM It's never advisable to use eBay and Paypal as a means of converting your BTC to fiat currency. There are much safer and securer ways and you are quite likely to either get scammed or be paid with money from a hacked account, which either way is not good to have.
Title: Re: IS THIS A MAJOR SCAM? Post by: madmadmax on September 21, 2013, 09:05:24 AM I think thats unacceptable, just paying 1 hundred dollars and a hacker gets a them 10s of thousands.. :/ But the point is that he can't spend the whole balance, the whole account is only "worth" a couple hundred bucks, because the max that he can reap from that one account would be to order discounted stuff for other people in exchange for BTC until the owner notices it and closes it off. A bitcoin account with 10,000$ is worth 10,000$. A debt account with 10,000$ is worth crap. Title: Re: IS THIS A MAJOR SCAM? Post by: gravitate on September 21, 2013, 12:02:17 PM Yeah I'm glad I didn't buy now :)
Title: Re: IS THIS A MAJOR SCAM? Post by: gravitate on September 21, 2013, 12:02:35 PM Sell I mean ;)
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