Sellers Beware!! If you sell an item for $400 and the buyer wants to send you $700, IT'S A SCAM! I have seen many different ways of buyers trying to play this scam out through PayPal or paying with a Cashiers Check, but the main goal they all share is trying to separate you from your money! More often than not this is an International transaction. If it's not an International buyer, chances are they have hijacked someones account and are using it.

Cashiers Check Payments: I have received these MANY times! The buyer will give you some sob story, send you an actual cashiers check, drawn on an actual U.S.bank, and try to get you to ship your product & part or all of the overpayment to a US destination before your check has actually cleared the bank. You can call the bank (or your bank should do this for you free of charge) where the cashiers check was written & they will likely verify the funds are available. The scam is - Those funds will not be there when the check actually arrives. Instead, the account will have been closed, or at the very least the funds emptied. There hope is to overpay you enough to get you to release some of the excess money they paid in the form of a fake check, out of your pocket, and get your product before the check actually gets to the bank & you figure it out. If you want to check out a Cashiers Check payment that seems legit, your bank will call them for you first, but even if you have the money to cover it & they say the funds are good - just tell the buyer you have to wait for the funds to clear his bank & be deposited into yours. This is where they get REALLY annoying...I've had people in other countries swear I was "holding their money" and actually threaten me & my family if I did not give it back. All I could say was "Hey, you have my address you sent the payment to!"

PayPal Payments: Again, there will be some "sob story" or stupid reason why they want to pay you more MONEY than they actually owe. These payments will look like they are from an honest buyer, who is PayPal verified and will have a confirmed shipping address to try & satisfy your concerns..but THE PAYMENT IS FAKE!

BELOW IS AN ACTUAL COPY OF A FAKE PAYPAL PAYMENT I RECEIVED - I can't include the entire email but the information between the lines below was at the bottom of what otherwise looked to be a legit PayPal payment.
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Important Note: This PayPal payment has been deducted from the buyer's account and has been "APPROVED" but will not be credited to your account until the shipment reference/tracking  number is sent to us for verification so as to secure both the buyer and the seller. Below are the necessary information requested before your account will be credited.
Send tracking number to us or email us through this mail (some BS email address) and our customer service care will attend to you. As soon as you send us the shipment's tracking number to us for security purposes and the safety of the buyer and the seller,the money will be credited to your account.

PLEASE NOTE:
Once item has been shipped and the tracking number sent to us,
You will receive a "CONFIRMATION EMAIL"  from PayPal Team informing you that the Fund has been credited.
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AGAIN - This is a scam and an attempt to get you to communicate with them outside of eBay or PayPal by using the email address they provide within the fake PayPal payment. Not only can you lose the money and/or item from the auction, but communications through links like this are where identity theft happens. Only communicate through eBay! Even if you communicate through eBay as I always have, NEVER release any item or any money before your payment has cleared and you have cash in your hand! PayPal payments and communication for these payments are made ONLY through PayPal!

Any strange link in any PayPal payment should not be used! Just forward the email to spoof@paypal.com
The same goes with suspicious eBay emails, forward them to spoof@ebay.com. They will both normally respond quickly, instantly at first to let you know they received your email, then (within 24 hours) let you know if the email was legit or not.

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