Scammer

[Charles Warner]

Beware of someone named GiftJonah72 who says he's from Vermont. Scammer but convincing.

If there is anyway his ISP can be blocked . . . . .

[kr]

Handled.

Thanks for the heads up!

Keith

[Charles Warner]

Thanks Keith.

He directed me to an email (which may be himself) stating a friend had the part I needed.

That alternate was russellphilip968@gmail.com.

Caveat Emptor

[Charles Warner]

You may think you are covered by Paypal's touted Purchase Protection Plan. If you send funds using the Friends and Family option, you are NOT covered. Only those payments made in a business setting are covered at all. Yes, if you read the boilerplate agreement you may find it listed somewhere.

Beware.

[Charles Warner]

In the interest of being fair, although Paypal will not apply the Purchase Protection if you use Friends and Family, if they can verify (by their methods) that the individual you sent money to was a scammer, and you did not get the item purchased and can not contact the scammer, they very well may refund your money. They did refund mine.

[E1pix]

Thanks for clarifying... but all these are reasons I prefer real, live banks for just about everything.

Yes, I’ll still whine about their hours. ;-)

[mikey]

"my friend has what you need" is become a fairly common scam. when they send picture proof, run it through google lens image search and you'll find the truth usually..