A heavy heart

[Egluntyne]

I received this email this aft. A person claiming to have "done business" with me on ebay is trying to lure me into parting with my Paypal details. I have never bought anything from a Mal Carter and Paypal don't have him or her listed as a user.

 

I contacted Paypal and they confirmed that it is a scam...so beware.

 

Here is the email. It is in poor English and goes on and on.

 

Hi there,

I don't know if you remember we traded on ebay, I really hope you don't

mind I picked your address from my Paypal list. If you don't want to

participate, please just delete the message (but it may be in your

interest to read it all first?).

I have never actually done one of these before and I promise this is a

one-off and I definitely won't send you anything like this again, but for

once I actually think there is something in this & decided to give it a go,

nothing ventured, nothing gained. If you also decide to go ahead as well

I'll love to hear how you got on and I'd be happy to let you know if it

worked for me or not....

Firstly I know this kind of thing is not for everybody so if it's not for you please accept my apologies.

As we did business on eBay, I thought you might be interested in

this moneymaking opportunity. The most you can lose is £3.00 and you

could make a lot of money. I don't normally take part in this sort of thing

but after reading all the fuss about this and seeing several emails I

thought I'd give it a try! I have just paid someone £3.00, so it is working for

someone!!

As you know I am a buyer /seller on eBay and use Paypal and a real

genuine person hoping to earn some cash . I know the person who sent me the message is also a genuine person I've had dealings with and so I feel for once it is 'the real deal'! I feel sure that we can both benefit financially from the following plan.

This email is going round Paypal and eBay users and it seems to be

working.

Please do not delete this before reading in full, it is not a scam and

is not junk mail. Yes, like me, you have no doubt heard this before in some

form but not in connection with ## million paypal accounts. Paypal have

also admitted that this is legal and trading standards are not aware of any

problem.

All it involves is a one off initial payment of £3.00, and approximately

10 minutes of your time.

These are some of the emails that I came across which finally made me

decide that I wanted to try this. I'm just trying it for fun really, I'm sceptical

about it I will admit, but I'm fed up of trying to win the lottery! (I decided to email the person who was at the top of the list in my meaasage to see if he was genuine and got a positive response - " I joined this about

just over # weeks ago, it took about # days to get my £#.## back (quite

a few more since), so i assume it to have worked. Regards. Paul."

Emails other people have attached to the message ...

"What an amazing plan. I followed the instructions just # weeks ago, and

although I haven't made ## grand yet, I am already up to ?#,###. Am

absolutely gob smacked" - Alan Humphries, Leicester.

"Well what can I say? I sent out ## emails like the plan said then just

forgot about the whole thing. To be honest, I didn't really think

anything

would come of it, but I checked my PayPal account a week later and there

was over ?#,### in it!!! After ## days I now have over ?##,### to spend" -

Lisa

Donald, Northampton

"I was shocked when I saw how much money came flooding into my PayPal

account. Within # weeks my account balance has ballooned to ?#,###. At

first

I thought there had been some kind of error!" - Richard Barrie,

Cirencester

"I was very sceptical when I first read this email, I nearly deleted it

but

then thought about it and decided to give it a go! Some people spend

more

than ?# per week on the lottery, so what's a one off payment of ?# going

to

matter!! I've got my fingers crossed that I will have some extra

spending

money in my Paypal account very soon! PS Wishing good luck and fortune

to

you all" Jackie

The problem with these types of scheme is that usually they run out of

people to pass onto & people aren't always comfortable sending these

things

to friends - but with ## million users and more joining every day, how

likely is that? Plus, they usually require high investment - this

doesn't.

If you are eager like I am by this stage, then read the instructions

outlined below taken from the original email. It is really easy to do,

then

you can just sit back and wait for those payments to go into your Paypal

account.

INSTRUCTIONS:

The first thing you need to do is go to www.paypal.co.uk and send a

£#.##

payment from your PayPal account to the FIRST email address in the list

below. You will also have to select a Subject; either 'Service' or

'Goods

(other)' should be fine. Instructions on how to send a payment are under

'SEND MONEY' at the Paypal site. It is very easy:

The current list:

# steve_thorn#@yahoo.co.uk

#. mblacklock@tiscali.co.uk

#. blundell####@hotmail.com

#. alexfarrell@btconnect.com

#. slyfox-mal@ntlworld.com

 

Copy and paste this page (and make any necessary changes). Remove the

email

address that you have paid from the number # spot, move all the others

up a

space, and insert your own email address in the number # spot ( Remember

to

take EXTRA care when typing the email addresses) then send the page to

as

many people as you can.

A good way is to send it to all the people in your PayPal history:

Go to history tab on paypal to download the history in column on left

hand

side.

Press 'download history' on the left hand side of the page.

Choose 'custom date range' - select 'comma delimited - all activity'

from

file types to be downloaded

A spreadsheet will be downloaded with a complete list of people you've

traded with

Highlight the column which contains email addresses

copy then paste them into the "to" section when creating the email

then just send the email

EASY!

Here's how it works:

When you send your email, your email address will initially be at No #

on

the list. That is the best position that you can be in if you wants to

earn

serious money.

The response rate for this program is much higher than any typical email

marketing campaign for a number of reasons, which are explained later

on.

As long as you send out your emails to people whom are likely to be

interested in this program, then you can expect on average a response of

around ##%. But let's be extremely conservative and assume that the

average

response rate is ##.#%!

If you send out ## emails, you can expect at least # of those people to

do

exactly what you did (##.#% of ## = # people). By the time your email

address will have moved up to No # in the list, this list will now have

reached around ### people (# people x ## emails=### people).

Out of those ### people, you can expect at least ## of them to

participate

##.#% of ### = ## people) so you are now reaching around #### people (##

x

## emails) and you are now at No # on the list.

Out of those #### people, you can expect at least ### of them to

participate

(##.#% of #### = ###) so you are now reaching #### people ### x ##

emails)

and you are now No # on the list.

Out of those #### people you can expect at least ### of them to

participate

(##.#% of #### = ###) so you are now reaching around ##### people (### x

##

emails) and you are now at No # on the list.

Out of ##### people, you can expect at least #,### of them to

participate

(##.#% of ##### = ####) so since you are now at the No# spot you can

expect

to receive around £#### (#### x £#).

So, when your name hits the No # spot it will be YOUR TURN to collect

the

money. Over the course of ## days this money will be sent to you by a

few

thousand people like yourself who are willing to invest £# and ##

minutes of

time to receive around £##,### in cash.

The first payments will arrive within a few days and then they will

continue

at the rate of about ### payments per day for about ## days obviously

this

will depend on how quickly you act and how quickly people take you up on

this offer and then pass it on).

After that time the volume of payments begins to taper off as your email

is

removed from the No # position. That's all you need to do! There will be

around £##,### in £# payments waiting for you in your Paypal account

within

the next few weeks.

£##,### for so little work! This is real money that you can spend on

anything you wish.

Just transfer it from your PayPal account to your bank account. It's

that

easy!!!

Remember, the ##.#% example is assuming ## out of ## people you send

your

email to will do absolutely nothing with it except delete it.

Additionally, the above example assumes that each participant will send

out

only ## emails. Imagine what would happen if each participant sent out

####

emails instead! You can send to as many people as you want The more you

send the more likely you are to make money.

Unlike many other MLM programs this # LEVEL PROGRAM costs you only £#.##

 

which is much more realistic and provides much faster results. Only the

first person on the list gets your £#.## gift, but everyone on the list

will

rise to the No # position as thousands of emails are being sent out. No

cheating can occur and don't be fooled by claims this system can be

cheated

as PayPal only allows one account per person. Because it's that easy the

response rate is VERY HIGH and VERY FAST. Internet email fast!! You may

start seeing dramatic results in less than one week.

Thanks For Reading This Email and GOOD LUCK!!

Give it a go, It is almost impossible to not make money out of this!

Also please email me to let me know how you have got on and how much

money you have made from this.

Regards

Mal

[Lesley]

Thanks Egluntine

 

I'd be amazed if anyone responded - i lost the will to live half way through

[moochoo]

I've reported so many scam and fake e-mails to paypal and ebay but I still get loads sent to me. I wouldn't be surprised if I receive this one soon. Thanks for the warning. Not that I'm that stupid. Daft yes, stupid no!

[Snowy]

I received one of these months ago Just deleted it.

[Olly]

It annoys me that these things are still going round ... sadly, the very people who are likely to fall for this are those who are desperate and can least afford to waste their money.

 

Do you remember when they 'exposed' this sort of scam on Breakfast TV a couple of years ago - with the simple mathematical theorem that shows it can't work - people were still insisting it was an easy way to make money.

[Charlottechicken]

That's a chain letter in email form isn't it? You send something to the person at the top of the list and join at the bottom, by the time your name gets to the top......... everyone has binned it

 

Yep, just delete

[Popcorn]

thanks for that Eglutine! I got half way through and gave up. Bin it and forget it!

[Prongs]

I delete things like that straight away!

[craftyhunnypie]

My hubby has a new pastime. He shops dodgy people to the Martin Lewis Scamsters Forum! He is always on the look out for dodgy goings on everywhere, not just ebay. He should have been a copper or a private detective. I quite fancy my own 007! He is very very good at sussing things out - and I'm pleased to say we have never been 'had'.

 

The rest of my family have been conned with alsorts. My sister recently with a Kirby hoover - she paid £1500 for this flamin' hoover of a rep that did a demo. We have found the same hoover brand new on ebay for £700!!! I just wish Mum, dad ~& sister would ask us first before jumping in and doing stuff!

 

Mum & dad got conned over their kitchen & their plastic guttering etc. It turned out that the 'businessmen' were travellers. Me & hubby had them sussed - but there was no telling my parents!

 

We just daren't tell our sister how much she could have saved on her Kirby hoover! It was bought with wedding present money too. Money that should have bought nice things other than a blinkin' hoover!

 

Rant over.

 

Emma.x