GRANDAD SCOOB

Had my scoob up for sale, and a few weeks back I advertised it on a free add web site, karz.co.uk . And last night I had two emails sent me from the USA, and I am thinking on passing them on to the police. read them and let me know what you think. I have deleated the contact numbers.




Greetinngs,
I am Dr Laura Higgins, i just relocated to
the U.S.A, i am interested in buying your Subaru for
my first daughter who is wedding soon as a gift. I am
awell of your asking price of £7,250 and is ok by me.
i have seen detail discription of the vehicle on
www.karz.co.uk and is satisfactory to me.

I will like to make payment as soon as possible to
secure it from other potential buyers.

payment will be in a bank cheque/ draft drawn from
the U.k bank in the amount of £10,500 from the company
manager where i worked in UK.The payment can only
reach you this amount cos is my (FRINGE BENEFIT).

When payment gets to you and it is cleared in your
account, deduct the cost price which is £7,250, you
will assist send back the balance of the funds to me
via western union so that i can prepay a shipping
copany here to instruct their agent in u.k to come for
the collection of the car for shipping.

I will require the following details to get payment
to you, full name, address, post code, city and
contact phone number(s).

let me know as soon as possible if my offer is ok and
if i can trust you with this.

NB: you should also deduct £100 pounds for your self
after you have deducted your money, this is a
compesation from me due to your time and incovinience
it will cost you in the transaction, this exclude the
western union charges.

hope to hear from you soon.

ring me at XXXXXXXXXX U.S code is +1 or email me back
as soon as possible.

I will appriciate a swift reply.

Kind Regards

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And the second email minutes later.
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Hello sir/ma,

With geniue humble respect and great sincerity, my names are Mr. Mark Kerry.

We owned a company which we purchase and supply, goods across the globe and with a certificate registration under the transinternational bussiness authority code of 89206 private bussiness bereau services and i am willing to purchase CAR, which i will like to know the last price, to update me on it working condition and if you have any picture of it, pls do send it via e-mail, so that i can see it then we discuss about the payment immmediately.

Pls reply this mail as fast as possible...

Here's my contact...

MK AUTOS GROUP
76 Shaffer Ave,
Westminster MD 21157
USA
TEL:xxxxxxxxxx
FAX:xxxxxxxxxx

scooby-si

think they need to learn english.just iggy them m8

MarksWRX

SCAM. might be fun to string them along for a while, especially the first one. i wonder how much interest you can get from your bank before they bounce the check?

LEE-WRX

iTrader: (7)

its definately a scam, people were trying that in my area last year, two people fell for it though!

GrahameS

Definitely sounds like a Scam, Are all Americans that poor at English ??

Tell the first one if she is that keen she can use the spare £3k to come and collect the car and ship it herself !!!

Sure the addy in the second one shouldn't be 'Shafter' avenue??!

TDT

It is a scam. You'll find the "agent" is in Nigeria or somewhere very similar.

speedking

Why have you deleted the contact numbers?

Big-G

Definately a scam.
Western Union payment is used by fraudsters because it is difficult to trace the receiver of the funds, they have false i.d.'s to collect the money from the Western Union agents.
I sell internationally on eBay and will not accept or send Western Union payments.

email them back and tell them it is sold.

If you use Internet Explorer, you can open the email 'properties' and check the originators email address, most likely will be African or Asian.

Good luck.

Big-G

douglasb

I'd email the first one to say that the American education system must suck if someone with such a poor command of English can be a doctor.

akshay67

Def string them along - esp the first one...send invalid details a few times - waste their resources! Try to point the first person to the second person - that'd be funny!

TDT

www.419eater.com

akshay67

The scammer asked him to wait for the cheque to clear - does it bounce after this?

Gear Head

iTrader: (2)

Definatly money laundering. Had the same problem with a guy on ebay. I was selling an escalift order picker. The winning bid was £3000, the winning bidder emailed me and said that if I agreed, (which I didnt) he would send me a cheque for £5200.

I was deduct the 3k + £20 (wow) for my troubles and then send the remaining £2180 to somebody else through Western Union. Luckily my Girl friend works for a bank. She read the email and said that even if I slightly suspected money laundering, it is an offence not to tell the Police. You are then prohibited from contacting the party involved.
The email also said ' Please consider the truck sold and remove it from ebay!
Oh, and his address was:53 dalebrook rd, Cheshire
Cheshire, Cheshire M333LB
United Kingdom
0161973592

MJW

The overpayment scam normally involves a stolen chequebook. The funds appear to clear in your bank, but when its discovered the cheque was from a stolen book, the bank has the right to deduct the money from your account. So the scammer gets a free car, and the difference between the selling price and the overpayment.
Common sense should tell anyone selling anything that if a potential buyer offers more than the asking price, there's something fishy going on ...

mart360

you cruel miserable bunch...

my hardworking mamma has spent all of her doctoring years saving an scrimpin for my wedding day.

All I want is wan of them there subaru,s so me an my hub can cruise the booleyvards...

the fact that the money is stolen is by the by i jus wanna a scoobydooby

yours

the docs daugher

LOL




Mart

scooby595

wasn't there a thread on here a few months back where someone was stringing them along. Not sure if it was car related but the thread was a damned good read. Similar scenario anyway (IIRC) Guy worked for the police here or something.


hope someone can dig it up, it was a good one.

Dream Weaver

Thats a cracker PMSL

TDT

That would be Burr!

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=336868

Tiggs

dont string them along....why? because what a waste of time, you are dealing with a nigerian retard who is pushing out a zillion of these things....stringing him along is all in a days work for him- he is happy to take a few wind ups for the occasional mug that falls for it.

dont tell the police....why? you think they will fly out to Africa and hunt down some moron in a hut with broadband?????? on second thoughts...do go to the police...if they lock you up for being nuts it serves you right!

akshay67

Just read this...This scam baiting looks like fun...

http://www.419eater.com/html/user_su...do/nelson.html

Tiggs

ppl need to understand that the scammers dont care about the baiting!

they are working on the basis that they send out 10 million scams.....X% ignore it, Y% wind them up and Z% fall for it.

a wind up merchant is just another stat to them.

this is like the "i wind up telesales ppl" threads.....i worked on cold calling for 3 years when i started in financial services.....every 10th call someone would "wind me up/string me along"...no doubt thet had a real laugh at my expense......or did they? i was making over 100k pa from the odd person that said yes......ppl only scam because it makes them money- they dont care if you laugh at them!!!!

T

ps- should add...when i started in finance i wasnt scamming ppl ! but you get the idea

vindaloo

I wouldn't be too sure that the people involved in this are all off-shore. Last one I heard of led to people being prosecuted in Newport, Gwent. The cheque used to pay for the goods is the key. Get the cheque and then call the Police. Its normally a stolen benefit or company cheque.
J.

MACH1

Check out www.autotrader.co.uk vehicle scam!

scooby595

Cheers for that TDT, that's the one I was on about !!!!!