To think someone is trying to scam me.. photo attached

[Aaahhhelp]

Hi everyone,

I put my wedding dress that I no longer want on gumtree yesterday. Last night I had someone asking do I still have the wedding dress. I replied yes and would they like to come and see it and got this reply this morning... as it said I would have the funds before sending I did think it was genuine, however a part of me thinks it sounds like a scam!

What do you think? And should I reply?

CANCEL THE CHEQUE

@NunoGoncalves

Reply saying...

If you are looking to con me, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you stop trying to scam me now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Ba ha ha ha ha !!!

Yep, tiz a scam.

www.paypal-community.com/t5/Payments/Is-this-a-Paypal-Scam-on-Gumtree/td-p/976894

I assume you don't sell much, scammers are the bane of online selling, trust no one

Don't do a bank transfer either!!! They can still reverse the transaction as there is not intermediary like ebay, amazon etc to hide your details.

It's a scam
I was selling a car in gumtree and got the same message twice from different people

@Aaahhhelp

Are you sure you actually want to sell your WEDDING dress?

misses point of thread................

This scam is common for wedding dresses. They hope that everyone is so overjoyed at being offered the asking price so rapidly.

A scam - PayPal allow transaction reversals. Say it's cash or cleared cheque only

This is why you always do cash on collection only for stuff that cant be sent through the post. Itll weed out a few chancers.

Tali I see! So that would go:

Scammer: I want my money back, this is broken
Me: What money?

Works for me!

Aside from all the other red flags, why would hearing loss (or even total deafness) prevent you from being able to collect something in person?!

scam definitely
I had a similar message when I was selling my sons pram and I told her straight that I would accept cash only and she could send whoever she wanted to get the pram but I would only accept cash on collection because she wasn't going to scam me.
funnily enough I didn't hear from her again

Known scam.

Everyone who's here saying this might not be a scam - please understand that one day you're going to fall for one of these, you are far too trusting. Any attempt to pay by PayPal and collect by courier is 100% a scam. 100%.

No! I did this on eBay. Someone was selling a pushchair I wanted. Collection only but I had no way of going. So I asked if it was ok if I booked and paid a courier. She said yes, so I went ahead and did it. I paid via PayPal for the buggy too.

This happened before to my sister where she got an email from paypal saying the money was in but it wasn’t paypal iyswim she cottoned on but I bet alot dont

Yep it the classic PayPal scam.

Oh I want to add I used a branded courier though. I can’t remember who but it was someone like Hermes or DHL

100000% SCAM

Yup, scam. Almost word for word of the message I got when selling my wedding dress. I found it odd as this kind of thing is usually for expensive phones and that, not second hand dresses that I was selling for fifty quid!

They will send a fake paypal 'you have recieved money but it wont show until buyer gets item', usually filtered to spam.

How could anyone possibly not think this was a scam?

It is a classic scam. I think craigslist even has examples of it on their website.

They will also need to overpay you and have you pay cash to the courier

its a scam, i had the same reply when i was trying to sell my car!!!!
We ignored them completely

Blimey, I thought I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and the I saw the identical email another poster had.

I hope I never get called for jury duty, I'll probably find reasonable doubt to let Escobar go......