Am I being scammed?

[Question]

I recently sold a laptop on ebay for a friend of mine, and someone did BUY IT NOW and got it for 200 bucks. This person just made their account, and has zero feedback. Once they won the item I receive this message from her.

Hello Seller,
Greeting to you,I Judy Ballard from ca USA,but Presently in London,UK for a church seminal. I saw your
product item below on ebay #220011088437 and i am really intrested in buying it for my Daugther as a surprise gift for her in school(Abti American University )at Nigeria and i will handle the shipment expenses.i will send you my fedex account so you will not pay no money for shipping.
I will be sending you payment via PayPal,so kindly send me
your PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS so as to immedaitely make out your payment and make sure you get the package ready for shipment,you can ship
the item as soon as you recieve the paypal confirmation.
Expecting your reply so as to immediately make out the payment

Ok, fast forward a little bit. I send her my paypal. Now, here is the next email.

Hi,
I have made out my payment to you for this item purchase,So check your mail for the confirmation mail from paypal.Get back to me immediately you receive the confirmation mail from paypal and don't forget to send me your physical contact address and the exact time you will be at home.So i can schedule FedEx to come and pick them up from you in other to reduce the stress of you driving down to their location to send it.Then i can send you my daughters address and fedex account number.Hope to hear from you soon

Now, "Paypal" then sends me an email that says this.

Dear Justin Sheffield .
This email confirms that Judy Ballard, have paid droptopchevy@gmail.com $200.00 USD using PayPal.

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You should never give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal employees.


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Payment Details.
Purchase From: Justin Sheffield,
Item # Item Title Quantity Price Subtotal

220011088437 BLACK DELL INSPIRON 3500 LAPTOP PC COMPUTER CHEAP!!! 1 $200.00
USD $200.00
USD
Shipping & Handling via Standard Delivery to :
$00.00
Shipping Insurance(included): $00.00

Total: $200.00


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Now, does this look legit or what? I go to paypal and log in and it shows 0.00 in my account. Is there any way I can talk to paypal, give them these numbers, and find out if this is in fact legit or a scam? If I am getting scammed I am going to run a reverse lookup on her Cali address and wreak some havoc.:rant:

[bah]

Re: Am I being scammed?

yes, it is a scam, just forget about it, i have a $5000 money order sitting next to me from one of those nigeria scams, just stop talking to them and relist your laptop

[HokieBird]

Re: Am I being scammed?

Atleast tell ebay so they can dissable that account.

[UDLOSE98]

Re: Am I being scammed?

I work for a bank and this is called "fishing" do not respond and report it to pay pal immeaditely.

Also, I hope you didnt click that link and login in or open it up in a new window, if so, they already have all your pay pal info.

[Question]

Re: Am I being scammed?

I work for a bank and this is called "fishing" do not respond and report it to pay pal immeaditely.

Also, I hope you didnt click that link and login in or open it up in a new window, if so, they already have all your pay pal info.

Nope, I am smarter then that. I opened up a new window and typed in Paypal.com myself and then logged in. How would I go about reporting this?

[3.4 slow to go]

Re: Am I being scammed?

How would I go about reporting this?

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/we...center-outside

right side, under report a problem

[pumm3l]

Re: Am I being scammed?

pretty clever, the ebay account they used to buy the laptop is probably comprimised so reverse lookup probably won't do a thing. Looks like he did buy it now so he could get your full name from ebay to make the paypal email confirmation look more legit.

You could go and have fun with this if you wanted like tell him you got the money and you're gonna send it, package up a box of rocks weighing like 100 lbs and tell him you have a few other computers around that are taking up some space so you'd like to just give it to him then his fedex account is charged a bundle, he'd be pretty surprised when he gets the package.

check this site out, people sometimes have way to much fun with this stuff:

www.thescambaiter.com

[bah]

Re: Am I being scammed?

pretty clever, the ebay account they used to buy the laptop is probably comprimised so reverse lookup probably won't do a thing. Looks like he did buy it now so he could get your full name from ebay to make the paypal email confirmation look more legit.

You could go and have fun with this if you wanted like tell him you got the money and you're gonna send it, package up a box of rocks weighing like 100 lbs and tell him you have a few other computers around that are taking up some space so you'd like to just give it to him then his fedex account is charged a bundle, he'd be pretty surprised when he gets the package.

check this site out, people sometimes have way to much fun with this stuff:

www.thescambaiter.com

i really thought about doing that when i got scammed, but i didnt feel like getting murdered, so i cut my losses and relisted

[Big Tymer]

Re: Am I being scammed?

anything from nigeria is a scam...... id lead him on to make him think hes getting like 9 miillion dollars
i play with them all the time

[ChronoGN]

Re: Am I being scammed?

It is a scam. What they do is, they will pay you with pay pal, have you ship the item, report to their credit card company that they never received their item, and the card company will take the money back from paypal, then paypal will take the money away from you.
And paypal won't protect you from any international frauds.