Scams - red flags - warning signs - fraud scam buyers

Many sellers and buyers are honest and good to deal with. But there are some scam sellers/buyers. This is my experience with a buyer who was going to commit fraud and trying to scam me and a number of other sellers.Fraud and buyers - sometimes there are a number of warning signs. In this case it was an international buyer purchasing an expensive item from me and from other sellers, all of the points stated below were present. The other sellers were based overseas, they found the buyer very convincing.The scam buyer was going to sting the sellers twice. Once for the goods and again for the payment. The buyer was going to end up with the goods and the buyer was going to have cancelled payments refunded, trying to get sellers to return/refund non-existent payment(s). new account, no feedback, buying a number of same/duplicate very expensive items locally and internationallydoes not care how expensive international postage or courier cost is for a large/heavy parceldoes not mind over-paying for postage and insurance, in such a hurry they do not want to wait to get an accurate postage/shipping priceinternational buyer can buy the same item in their own country for hundreds of dollars cheaper, and the international postage is very expensive for the particular item they are buyingwant the item in a big hurry, keep stressing they want it shipped quickly, for whatever reason time is short, gift, birthday, christmas, sick person, for friend, family member - sometimes honest buyers do make this requestitem is being sent to a different name and address to the ebay and paypal details (honest buyers sometimes do request that the item be sent elsewhere)buyer does not want the over-payment refunded - we are not taking about a few cents or couple of dollars.buyer wants the items sent before seller has received paymentbuyer wants item(s) sent before payment has cleared - item being purchased costs hundreds of dollarsphone number on ebay does not exist or is disconnected, or the phone number is working but they tell you it is disconnected because the phone number belongs to someone else and they do not want you to call that number.when doing a search to find their name, address,

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