Dodgy Buyer Maybe?
#16
Posted 01 December 2007 - 09:54 PM
just email him back cash on collection and you will never here from him again
#17
Posted 01 December 2007 - 10:38 PM
Any email that contains a phrase such as this :
Pls i will be
counting on your trust to deduct your funds as soon as
you get the cheque cleared and transfer the balance of
(£2,600) through western union money transfer to my
shipper who will be comming for te pick up. Let me
have the Name that will be written on the cheque and
your residencial Address where the cheque will be send
to,also with your personal phone #.
...is a common 419er style scam. Basically what happens is the cheque is a fake / stolen and will bounce OR the cheque will clear......but the money will be recovered as "fraudulent" transfer, but ony AFTER the "shipper" has picked up the car, and the "balance" of the money you sent on will still be gone from your account.
So, in other words - you just PAID the guy to STEAL YOUR CAR!
You might find a bit of luck by passing on the details to one of the members on some of the scam baiting websites - who want's to bet the scammer has a box of broken pub urinals sent out to him in Lagos?
SS
#18
Posted 02 December 2007 - 10:11 AM
He is even using the same names each time, and uses being in Ireland or Holland, or selling because of a family tragedy, in his excuses as to why you can't view the vehicles before you buy....
Different tact here, trying t use the 'buying scam' rather than selling, but it's definitely the same person/group of people... Steer well clear and try to report him to Autotrader, as I think eBay have managed to ban his activity on there for now at least!
#19
Posted 02 December 2007 - 10:59 AM
Just ignore it, don't E-mail them any more, get the phone company to block the incoming calls and have nothing more to do with them. Don't tell them anything. They will just go and pick on someone else once you start ignoring them, after all there will be a room full of guys each doing the same thing to several different people at the same time all working for the same person and they won't be that bothered with tracking you down when they've got other fish to fry.
#20
Posted 15 December 2007 - 05:08 PM
Edited by Davis, 15 December 2007 - 05:10 PM.
#21
Posted 16 December 2007 - 04:16 PM
Anyway, standard scam stupid email waste of time. What exactly is he reciting in Ireland: Shakespear, poetry? He did of course mean reside. You would have thought if these idiots were going to try and rip people off, they might at least try and do it with a bit more style and possibly learn english a bit better.
Not meaning to offend anyone but its because there forigeners trying to steal from us when we have let them into our country but anyway, thats a different arguement.
#22
Posted 16 December 2007 - 04:25 PM
Anyway, standard scam stupid email waste of time. What exactly is he reciting in Ireland: Shakespear, poetry? He did of course mean reside. You would have thought if these idiots were going to try and rip people off, they might at least try and do it with a bit more style and possibly learn english a bit better.
Not meaning to offend anyone but its because there forigeners trying to steal from us when we have let them into our country but anyway, thats a different arguement.
So englishmen never try to scam other englishmen then..... I dont see what a nigerain scam has to do with immigrants but obviously im not seeing things with your perception.
#23
Posted 16 December 2007 - 05:54 PM
Alan...
p.s. IASIAAS
p.p.s. Just in case you hadn't realised it's a SCAM it's always a SCAM
#24
Posted 16 December 2007 - 06:09 PM
#25
Posted 16 December 2007 - 06:13 PM
If you can, contact him through auto trader or ebay - try not to disclose your email address.its a scam
just email him back cash on collection and you will never here from him again
Edited by dave20046, 16 December 2007 - 06:13 PM.
#26
Posted 16 December 2007 - 08:07 PM
#27
Posted 16 December 2007 - 08:38 PM
#28
Posted 17 December 2007 - 12:30 AM
I had some similar emails (and still do!) about a Swift GTi I was selling.
I also started getting calls from a very strange number (started 35!) The called turned out to be a lad from Northern Ireland who flew over the next morning, rented a car, drove down with a friend, paid me full asking price, in pounds sterling and took the car away.
Never heard a peep since.
So stranger things have happened.
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