Just wanted to post and expose the address of Monica using email [email protected] and [email protected] who responded to my advert on the GumTree website, attempting to us Paypal with a pickup of my goods by someone else because she was out of town. Offered to pay $200 over my sale price! Attempted to track the email and IP address but could not be found or was detected as suspicious! Of course i did not reply...just wanted to warn others who use the wonderful GumTree website for HONEST selling and buying. Beware!
Welcome susancat and thank you for posting this warning! It will help others, even if they don't take the time to post here after they found out.
To make your warning even more efficient, could you please post the text of the first email you got? Some victims do a Google search on the text.
To other readers: The scammer isn't going to use PayPal, he will send an email from a fake PayPal account he has created himself.