Ok this is a weird one.
I have been conversing on email with a guy after he bought something I advertised on gumtree, and has made a few more direct purchases since.
He has seemed genuine enough.
As well as conversing about the items and purchases we’ve had a small amount of general friendly chit chat.
He has paid via PayPal and so I’ve seen his name and address on there and although can’t see him on social media, a quick google shows there is someone of that name living in that area.
His email has always appeared In my inbox
as his name and surname eg. joe bloggs
His actual email address is something like [email protected]
Today when he emailed me, instead of coming up as from Joe Bloggs it said gov.testing
It’s so odd. Same email address and normal message content.
It looks like he’s changed his name on his email address to appear as gov.testing
Could this be to try and scam people and he forgot to change it back before emailing me?
Or could there be any other explanation?
He does not have my real name or email address and I use a business PayPal account so he can only see my pseudo name I think. So I’m pretty sure he can’t scam me on any info I’ve given.