What scammers can steal from knowing our Paypal Email address?

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Retailers, Manufacturers, ePay, AudiogoN, Paypal or whatever. Buying and selling advice.

Lately I got a number of responses to my sale ads. Most of them offered me more than I asked for or a relatively good amount that was not agreed upon. Things in Common: ship the item to his/her relative or friend somewhere different from where he/she was as claimed, and asked me for my Paypal account.

Everything sounds too good to be true! I contacted Paypal and was advised to forward these kind of emails to spoof@paypal.com and delet these kind of mails, so I did. But strangely, I got replies from Paypal saying that they can't help/answer ....or something. OK, that's another story.

My question, as I asked Paypal customer service:
What these scammers can do by knowing our Paypal email address(=account)?

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Topic - What scammers can steal from knowing our Paypal Email address? - panoramamusic 10:32:17 05/23/09 (1)

Nothing at all... - GTShelby350 17:22:41 05/27/09 (0)

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