Dear Sir /Madam,
I'm writing to you from Greece, in order to get some help and advice related to a potential scam that might I'm dealing with.
Long story short : I posted an ad on facebook marketplace about a graphics card (private sale of my own hardware, I'm not a professional seller). A person from England with a regular FB account wanted to buy the card for his cousin here in Greece (Athens), as he claims. We had an agreement. He wanted to also include some steam game cards and I agreed. Then he asked for some personal information (bank account, email etc.) and sent me a proof of wire transfer from Lloyds phone application, as he claims. But after that I'm receiving several claims asking to transfer extra money to some suspicious accounts via paypal (as I have a paypal and not a Steam account) in order to finalize the transaction for the graphics processor unit and steam gift cards. transfer to my greek account is holded and I received nothing. I didn;t ship the items by the way.
I'm receiving suspicious emails asking for money from:
[protected]@gmail.com
Is that a regular Lloyds email or not? This might be a scam or something?
[Unfortunately I already sent € 50.00 via Paypal (family - friends transfer...!) yesterday according to instarcations from this specific email. today they wanted extra money but I searched about it and found this:
https://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=189394]
I'll try to contact facebook and PayPal about a potential scam that I'm afraid is happening.
I would sincerely appreciate it if you send me some feedback about this specific mail address.
Kind regards
Ioannis Petrocheilos
[[protected]@gmail.com]