I only wanted tickets to see the fireworks at our local village school in Kent!
Tickets all sold out, went on FB and some "mum" said she's selling tickets because change of plans. I thought "oh brilliant, saved the day!" Message this person, who I don't know, BUT thought I could trust as we live in a small village and who would know about the fireworks display unless they were a local... turns out she still has tickets and selling them at same price as the school. Great, another reason to trust this person... I'm not a big PayPal user, she said I can send the money via PP and she would email the tickets to me. I thought, great, PP is safe, let's do this.
Make the payment using their email address, different name but assumed it was husbands account. Next message back, "oh no, PP is holding the payment, they said you need to make another payment using a different email" which she then provided. "They will refund your first payment once the second payment has been sent". That's when I realised that this was a scam!
I said "no thanks, I'll just request my money back". To which she replies "oh hang on, I'll just send the tickets anyways".
Called my bank, they can't do anything about it, called PP, they can't do anything about it because the payment was made to a Friends or Family Member - specifically what the scammer asked me to do. Lesson learnt, lucky it was only £15 but very annoyed at myself and gutted my son can't go to the fireworks display!
Any similar PP or scamming stories! So awful you can't get your money back and the scammers just gets away with it! Targeting a parent. Disgusting 🤮