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The original was posted on /r/ukpersonalfinance by /u/striped-monster4214 on 2023-08-11 18:03:18.

Hi all

I’m selling my vehicle on eBay and a buyer contacted me literally 30 minutes after I put up the listing. Apart from one or two other questions around the vehicle itself, he then said the following:

“do you have pay pal as I will be paying you with that, as it is a secured way to pay online If you are okay with that, you can send me your details so I can pay with it .I have also got a transporting firm that will handle the conveyance after I have paid the money to your pay pal and the transaction is completed.”

I said that I can only take bank transfer, to which he replied:

“I would have loved to use bank transfer like you mentioned but understand that you are an unknown person and BACS isn’t as safe as pay pal ,so i decided to use pay pal because of the distance between us and i will be paying without any form of delay, pay pal is secure and reliable so you can easily create an account with them now on www PayPal . Com and get back to me with your pay pal account name and email so I can pay to your pay pal and you will get a confirmation from pay pal the moment I pay .I hope you can read this and understand me more better .”

I’ve been around long enough to see a lot of scams on eBay (when escrow services were a thing), but I wasn’t sure if I should entertain this buyer any longer? What does everyone think?

Thanks