Is this a scam? Pay Pal?

Question

So a lady wants to buy my PSP and i need to ship it to Nigeria, and i just got an email from Pay pal saying I have recieved the money and all i need to do to be credited the money is email them the tracking number but my actual Pay Pal account has nothing different on it and i also have no clue where to enter the tracking number anyways. So is this a scam? and if not where do you enter the tracking number?

Thanks for any help..

Answer 1

TOTAL SCAM.

Avoid it completely and DONOT clink on any links they send you.

Answer 2

Yes it is definatly a scam do not send any info to them. Nothing is ever free on the net

Answer 3

I do not trust pay pal.  I that that sounds like a scam but I don't know for sure.  It sounds like someone from Nigeria wants your money.  Why do they need the number on your pay pal account?  They might want to get into your pay pal account.  Stay away from that.

Answer 4

NEVER do business in Nigeria.  Seriously, dude, never.  

Answer 5

If you give her YOUR paypal information, you should be OK.  Another words if your paypal through Ebay is the one you always use, then you should be fine.  Ebay owns Payapl  If the email went to a different email address, I'd give her the correct one.

Paypal is secure, as long as you only use the paypal.com address you bookmark, not any link sent randomly asking you to reconfifrm your user name and password.

Answer 6

Don't do it. It may or may not be a scam,  but guaranteed if you do it and it is a scam you can kiss it good-bye. why take the chance?

Answer 7

anything mentioning Nigeria is a scam

Answer 8

I wouldn't sell anything to anyone that far away, especially the history Nigeria has with internet scams,  I would make sure I had the money in my hand before I would think about shipping the item.

Answer 9

I would e-mail Ebay, that seems fishy

Answer 10

No, my brother in law uses Pay Pal all of the time. He has a business doing that and Pay Pal is what he uses to get paid. He always gets his money. My uncle uses it too. Only thing is, you have to be careful. People can hack into that and get your money and have it sent to their bank account. That happened to my uncle before. Just have to be on guard.  

Answer 11

You mentioned Nigeria, you should never send anything there until you are in posesion of the cash. inform PayPal it sounds like a rip off.

Answer 12

It sounds like a scam. Wait until the money is in your paypal account.

The tracking # is the fed-ex or shipping #. They're saying to send it before you get paid. Don't do it man. Africa is famous for id theft and internet confidence scams.

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Answer 13

I REALLY HATE THIS NIGERn people ... they are all con artis and need to get a really head shot.

i want my $$$$$$$$$$$ back..  

Answer 14

Common scam.

The Nigerian faked the email from Paypal.  Paypal is NOT an escrow service.  They NEVER hold money waiting for a tracking number.

Answer 15

It probably is a scam.  You never send anything until the payment has gone through your account.  You may want to call Paypal up to see what they say.    

Answer 16

Yes it's a common scam. Ignore this person, do not send them any information.