Spam buying my car or not?
 

Put my car up for sale on the net and got a strange reply....

The guy who wants to buy the car hasn't seen the car! But wishes to buy it for a client, for my asking price....

Now he asked for all my bank details.... I smelled a rat and said I'd prefer a international cheque or cash thinking that this would sort out if was cosha or not!
To my suprise he has agreed to post a cheque in Euros....

He just needs my Full name, Address, and phone number.....

Any body ever had an email like this?

Cheers for any advice

Plums.

P.S. without naming and framing the guys email starts mikeautos_traders@

Id say " SCAM " M8 & stay well away .........

I may be wrong but i dont think so :)

Sounds fishy mate. I dont recognise the email but I have had a few of these type emails in the past. I would rather miss a couple of potential purchases than loose the car or hand out personal details like that. A real buyer will turn up eventually.

Sounds like a scam.

The question you should be asking yourself is "why would someone pay FAP for my car, without seeeing it?" If you have a Ferrari 250 GTO that's had a well publicly decumented life and rebuild than it's (just) possible. Even then i wouldn't be taking a Euro cheque. Bank transfer's fine. If you're selling a £2000 Vectra then think SCAM!!! ;)

take cash or nout, if he a real buyer he will know about scams n wont have a prob w u taking it to the bank and asking them to check it b4 if gose to your account. Anything else dont bother.

Take the cheque and cash it then tell him the bank requires 6 months a Euro cheque to fully clear and offer him a refund after 6 months if he is not happy.

I've asked for all of his personal details....

Full name, address, fixed and mobile telephone number, what shipping company he will use etc.

the car I'm selling is a Honda Accord Tourer Type S 2005 with 6000 kms.

..... I'll see what he replies!

Thanks for your views!

That will turn out to be a dodgy cheque AFTER its cleared and then the bank will take the money back AFTER you have parted with the goods so you will be left with nowt :(

Similar scam with Western Union money transfers I seem to remember.

Also, the cheque will be for too much, you will then be asked to send the difference, which will clear and they will not only have not sent you money, they will have your car and have change...

Run, Run away, Run like the wind......

I am sure banks only have 6 months to claim back on a cheque hence the 6 months above.

go check out ebay's scam section - there is a ton of stuff like this going on...they'll explain the gist of the rip...

Scamtastic! See if you can get their address and send the relevant countries rozzers around, thieving ba*tards!

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/cashier.asp :Suspiciou

Cal

Yeah, these are very common on the high end mountain bikes etc. We have to be very careful on our boards with things like this as people are always getting dodgy emails like the one you have received. Avoid. If you have to ask the question, I think you already know within yourself that somethings not right.

Cheers guys.... I don't like the smell of this one bit!

He sent me his full address and postcode they don't seem to right!

Address is Essex and postcode is WE34 (Where the hell is that?)

He even gave me his phone number maybe I'll just send this on to some lads I know in Manchester ;)

Plums.

this a message i got the other day, im only selling the xr31 for £700 but he wanted to give me cheque for £4000 and for me to give him the difference,
yeah b*****ks to that!
he even fprgot his name because he said he was seige then signed it from paul!
craig


From : Siege smith <siege_smith001@linuxmail.org>
Sent : 12 January 2006 14:10:02
To : craig.wonfor@hotmail.co.uk
Subject : 1989 FORD ESCORT XR3i 3dr Xr3 Hatchback, £700


Hello Seller,
My name is Mr Siege Smith am located in London am 52 years old of age am
ineterested in buying your car you placed for sale on Autotrader.co.uk am very
interested in buying it for my only son who is wedding on the 23 Febuary 2006
for a suprise for him on his wedding day i want you to tell me its present
conditions of the car so that i can inform my engineer about it and my mode of
is by a Cashiers Check.
Morealso i will like to inform you that i have contacted my SOLICTOR who alway
guide and direct me about this car am buying and he told that i should not worry
that it will be safe.My client will be issueing the check of £4,000 to you and
you will kindly deduct your own money from it which is £700 and send the
remaning balance for shipping of the car to my destination in London he told me
that he will not be comfortable in sending out two checks that he will send it
in full ok so i will like you to give me this requested informations where the
check will be sent to below:
Full name:
Address;
Sate:
Zip code:
country:
cell phone number:
Home Phone number:
WORK PHONE NUMBER:
As soon as this requested informations has been giving out you will surely
recieve the check between 3,4 or 5 days.i want your urgent respond asap.

WISHING YOU HAPPY NEW YEAR.
BEST OF REGARDS.
PAUL.

Some dodgy gezzers out there!

Some serious scams going down!
Gotta feel sorry for the poor sods who fall for them!

Cheers,

Plums.

Its would be quite amusing if there was a well publicised spate of scammers being found in bits in shipping containers, might put them off.

Set the dogs on them............

If you give me the postcode i'll tell you the address. :)

That one from siege smith is utter rubbish! Not even a worthwhile effort, could of at least ran a spellcheck on it! No wonder these muppets aren't employed and have to attempt to scam a few quid!

Here you go Thomas.....

His Full postcode

WE34 R4

Now I have no idea were that is! But he states that it's in Essex!

Plums.

WE34 R4 isn't a proper UK postcode.

Bugger me...

You get an email like that and you have to question it - like different names, spelling mistakes, asking for zip code etc etc...

We wonder why people fall for scams, then they get an email like this and still have to ask the question. Sorry plums, but I suspect it's a desire to sell your car that makes you want to believe - as it's nonsense...

I know stinks doesn't it........

I tried every resource ( waste of time I know!) to try and locate his address but nothing computes..... nothing.....

I can't even set the dogs on him......:(

Muppets address: ESSEX PERKAM WE34 R4 LONDON ENGLAND.

Anybody ever heard of Perkam?

Plums.

Thats got to be the worst fake address i've seen :Whatever_

isnt perkam where del boy lives?:cuckoo:

Struv I think that's Peckham, Nelson Mandela house.

Dodgy address for a dodgy geezer.....

Plums.

As said, that's not a real postcode. West East London...

Email him and suggest he takes some geography lessons. ;)

Cheers Thomas! As I suspected...... maybe I'll just set the e-dogs on him....

Really strange though as I advertised the car on a Swiss website in French and he replied to me directly in English!!!

Plums...