![]() If your (real-world) friend offered to pay the £200 flight cost for a holiday this time round, and you pay back your share, that's fine. The excessive step to show you it's safe, is WAYYYYY further than the steps needed to tingle my red scammer warning lights. Now, the thing about a convincer is, most genuine situations people don't actually throw them in. A friendly helpful person who seems to like and trust you and says they are glad to cut a corner to help. Some themes are totally pervasive - some kind of "too good to be true". That one point, to me, is the smoking gun and huge red flag. "The corporate site shows other people use friendly persons login and have also bought desktop computers using his discount." I'm going to cut and paste from that answer, and I think you'll see the relevance. The smoking gun is the same detail as in my answer to this question - the unnecessary convincer. Hopefully this question will be able to prevent anyone from falling into a similar scam in the future. So I think it's safe to say that it was indeed a scam, and I'm glad I didn't fall for it. He went completely silent (after having constantly bugged me for days on end). ![]() Is it possible for me to pay through Venmo or Cash App, and have reasonable certainty (as I would through PayPal G&S) that I could get my money back if I ended up not getting the item?Įdit: thanks for the answers, everyone! I sent the person a link to this question. With all this being said, I don't really care about his story as long as I can pay using a payment method where I am completely covered and have no worry about losing money. I like giving people the benefit of the doubt, but the rest of the story about why he is selling it at such a good price also seems kind of. I also offered initially to meet him in person through a friend (since he's not in my state), but for some reason he was vehemently against the idea. Presumably this guy doesn't know that I am a UI/UX designer and I can easily fake realistic looking screenshots, and also create fake social media accounts. He has sent me screenshots and accounts of people who have supposedly bought from him, but I take these with a grain of salt. He convinced me that I could just file a chargeback with my credit or debit card on Venmo or Cash App if I didn't receive the item by claiming an "unauthorized purchase" charge. However, the guy said he was owed money from PayPal (a large check that was on hold) so he didn't want to use PayPal. PayPal G&S has the advantage of buyer protection, so if he ended up not sending me the card I could file a claim and get my money back. However, this person wanted to transact using Venmo or Cash App, not PayPal Goods and Services. I wanted to buy a GPU online from someone who listed some a fairly affordable price.
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