914-295-6450
Complaint 324114 Details

I got a text from 914-295-6450 about my double ovens I was trying to sell on Craigslist. I got suspicious when I saw (by Google Search) the area code was in New York City, and I'm in South Texas, and didn't think my "vintage" ovens would be something worth shipping all the way out there. So, I played along, to see how a scammer works, and he asked for my email address I use for my Paypal account. I sent that to him, and I shortly thereafter got two emails from "PayPal" (though I knew they were from him), one stating there were new funds put in my Paypal account ($300 for my ovens, and $250 for his shipping agent and $50 for the Western Union fee), and the other one supposedly from a Paypal agent that told me to pay the shipping fee to his shipping agent in Indiana, or I wouldn't get my $300 released into my account. I hadn't asked for the shipping agent fee, or the Western Union thing. But I was supposed to pay the $250 for them to release my funds. Oldest trick in the book. I kept asking him questions by text, and he kept pushing me to pay the money so the mythical shipping agent would show up. After wasting his time for a good long while, thus wasting my time, I finally pulled the plug on this scumbag scammer and sent him a final text revealing everything he did. Never got a reply.