03/07/2025
UPDATE
They still trying so please be aware.
I added all the profiles they have used with me, the end of their conversation is when you don't give PayPal as an option, although they will ask for your account also.
I gave all the information to Kent police. They took it seriously so I think they are investigating it. They said if anyone had the same experience or have any information that can help to contact them.
all small businesses please be careful! PAYPAL SCAMMED
Scammed Alert you need to read , they are actually really good.
There is a trick going on. They send you a message to get a product from you, they will asked usual questions how much it cost product and postage. Like any normal person buying your product will. Then they will ask if you have PayPal and ask if they can pay you there, so far nothing suspicious until here they act as any customer do.
Then they tell you they sent you the money to PayPal as usual and you will received an email supposedly from PayPal, but is not ( you can see this by trying to reply to the email, I attached real and fake PayPal emails.
They will say as it is a personal account or something different for a business account, that the person sending the money need to make another payment in order to activate your account bla bla to received the money, that person supposedly made that deposit trusting you, bla bla and then that person asked you to contact PayPal at the WhatsApp group that should be in the email, of course that WhatsApp group is not PayPal.
That PayPal agent ask you to send the money back to the person, they asked first to send it by PayPal, can't remember why exactly but they then said no instead of PayPal asked the client for the bank details and send it to the account and then send then a screenshot supposedly to credite the money to you and to protect the client.
They are very careful and they pressure you, but not a lot just enough to keep you busy and distracted, but not enough to suspect.
When you tell them I made the payment, they urged you to send the screenshot, the supposedly client also supposedly get very anxious because they sent you extra money but you haven't send the money back.
The email and the WhatsApp group look very creditable, but is not real, so be careful.
I told them to send the money back to the client as at that point I thought they were real as I was distracted, I said sent it back as there was zero money in my PayPal and got an email saying she had sent me an extra 200.
They also blocked the screen so you can't screenshop, no idea how, but I took pictures with a different phone 😉.
I told both of them,.you are a scammer and they even tried to call me , to try and convinced me they weren't and the supposedly client swear on her kids she or he wasn't, after a while they disappeared from both sites when I told them they should be ashamed of themselves for scamming people with small businesses that work very hard and scared the life out of them with a not very nice prophecy for scamming people's money.
Below I have the account details where I was to send the money also.
