coldshowers
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- Jan 24, 2018
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Just remembered that a guy added me a few months ago requesting to use my PayPal account for a split of the earnings. Promised $75-100 a day. I couldn't figure out what scam he was trying to pull, but it doesn't make sense that it could be legitimate. He's been sending me a message every few weeks checking if I'm still not interested, which I will never be.
The premise was that he was selling a service through eBay which could be done in a few minutes but he charged for this. He'd send them from eBay to WhatsApp, where he'd do the service. He screenshared his account live, he had a ton of conversations going on, I can almost confirm that this part was legitimate.
My role would've been to take payments through my PayPal account from the different clients each day. He said he couldn't get an account in his country (somewhere in South America - I doubt this) but it wasn't a refund scam. Firstly because it would've been lots of small payments from lots of different accounts, not a lump sum from one. The dude also didn't seem super concerned about getting his portion to him. He didn't want it within a certain time frame, he seemed quite desperate to get someone to work with him. He wanted payment in BTC, but other than that, he wasn't very interested in the terms. He said he would do everything to avoid me risking a chargeback scam. He screenshared with me his month long conversation with another guy he was working with, where the dude did receive payments fine, but the money was getting locked for 21 days due to being a new account. I wouldn't have had that issue.
Where was the scam (assuming there was one)? I might've missed some stuff as it has been quite a few months since the conversation, but I really looked deep into what he was trying to do - was never really interested in working with him.
The premise was that he was selling a service through eBay which could be done in a few minutes but he charged for this. He'd send them from eBay to WhatsApp, where he'd do the service. He screenshared his account live, he had a ton of conversations going on, I can almost confirm that this part was legitimate.
My role would've been to take payments through my PayPal account from the different clients each day. He said he couldn't get an account in his country (somewhere in South America - I doubt this) but it wasn't a refund scam. Firstly because it would've been lots of small payments from lots of different accounts, not a lump sum from one. The dude also didn't seem super concerned about getting his portion to him. He didn't want it within a certain time frame, he seemed quite desperate to get someone to work with him. He wanted payment in BTC, but other than that, he wasn't very interested in the terms. He said he would do everything to avoid me risking a chargeback scam. He screenshared with me his month long conversation with another guy he was working with, where the dude did receive payments fine, but the money was getting locked for 21 days due to being a new account. I wouldn't have had that issue.
Where was the scam (assuming there was one)? I might've missed some stuff as it has been quite a few months since the conversation, but I really looked deep into what he was trying to do - was never really interested in working with him.
