Does This Sound Like A Scam?

meglet | 13:11 Thu 18th Aug 2016 | ChatterBank

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I listed an item for sale on Gumtree at 1.00pm today. Within 15 minutes I had a text asking me to email them with my best price. It's been unsold on ebay for nearly 3 weeks so I was a bit surprised in the interest so quick (it's a bit of a specialist item).

Anyway I emailed with the answer and then had a very quick message back asking how long I had been using it. By the time I could answer they had chased me for a reply. Once I replied they emailed back asking for condition (it's clear on the ad), location and email address for PayPal. Pretty much straight away I had another email chasing for a response and wanted my email address for PayPal.

So by now I'm getting a bit twitchy about this so I logged onto my BT email page to start a reply and in front of my eyes, all emails from this address just vanished. So I check my phone as I had been reading on the emails and my iPhone has "no message selected" on the screen.

Checked my spam box and they're not in there. How can messages I receive just disappear from my inbox?? Don't you normally get an email that someone is trying to recall an email?

Does it sound fishy or am I a bit paranoid!!

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dannyk13

///email address for PayPal///
I would say a scam.

Calibax

Have they all been moved to your Junk/Spam folder?

meglet

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You do need someone's email address to pay thru PayPal though.

Checked my spam filter.

Just had another text from another number but I suspect its the same as the first email had the name "emily" in it and this text has come in from Emily although its giving a different email address to contact.

weecalf

Ignore it same or similar happens all the time .Hard to believe any thing now isn't it .

meglet

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Bummer :-(

wolf63

I am more curious about the vanishing emails. Once you get them they should be safe from someone retrieving them.

Weirder and weirder

meglet

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I know, weird right. I would have got a recall message but they just vanished.

Defo a scam.

NoMercy

Unless that person had their account deleted.

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