Paypal Scam, protect yourself by knowing what to expect.

[roadtrip192]

This may have been discussed some time ago, but for those that do not know, here is the paypal scam. DON'T become a victim.

DO NOT put your ID and PW inside the invoice of paypal, and invoice requested by the buyer and generated from the seller. It's a Feiwong scam method, a known scammer notorious for stealing FFXI accounts. Maybe this might reach sticky status, but it works for ANY games where a paypal transaction is used.

How this works is the scammer tells you to send an invoice for the transaction. He will tell you to include the account ID and PW, but he claims he can't see this info until he pays the invoice. He CAN see this info without paying. Right then and there he will log into your account and change info on you, and leave the invoice hanging indefinately.

In games such as FFXI, once someone logs in, EVEN while your logged in, it will boot you off. Once the scammer has your ID and PW, your SOL, it's a complete race to get to the change PW screen at that point. By the time you log back in, you will have lost your account.

This method might seem cheesy and obvious, but for those that have NEVER used the paypal invoice method, there's potential to fall for it.

Don't become a victim, if ANYONE requests this method for transaction, it's setting you up for 100% scam - uncontested.

 

[Metsuku-banned]

Banned

A mule...camping me?

Either your someone's mule, or this is some joke going so low to making an account to ridicule me of unsafe trades and transactions that I am not affiliated with.

First off, this is a common well known in many of the reported threads on here. The info is usually given to either let the buyer/seller/trader verifiy the account, or to be trusted since that person is well known.

Further more, people should only give their info only and only to known markee users, decent feed back <doesn't have to be but helps> verified paypal, or a " Trust" verification on ebay or on markee status user.

I am trusting those who are willing to do middle man trades by well known users <such as Roxas, spar13, Rangler, etc> or trusting those who have used markee for a long time, trusted.

The only time I would ever request the info given to me, if any only if I request for the person to send me the info when I pay 50%, and then sending the rest of the payment when the item is verified in my possesion.

Or... the person holds one of my account items while the seller/buyer sends the account info, and the the payment is made, and then finally, the account is returned to me.