Car Scam - Can you Remember?
29 November 2004, 12:17 PM
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Car Scam - Can you Remember?
We are currently selling our RB5 and have been contacted by email from a guy in Holland saying that he wants to buy our car (see copy text from email below). Can anyone remember whether this was a scam - I'm sure it is.
I am very interested in buying this your car,
> which is £10,400
> so there is a client of mine who is owing me the sum of £16,500
> ,which i can instruct him to issue out the cheque to you as soon as
> possible.payment will be made via Cashiers Cheque drawn on a Uk Bank,Which
> i believe is the fastest way the payment could be made, so i am willing to
> entrust you with the excess funds on the cost,which you must send to my
> shipper via western union money transfer as soon as the Chequeclears in
> your Bank.My Shipper will be on ground to pick-up the car in your
> location to sign the relevant titles and papers on my behalf as soon as we
> seal the transaction and the payment is made.So if my Payment terms is
> acceptable with you,you can mail me back to know in time and forward me
> your,
> FULL NAME.......................
> FULL ADDRESS............................
> ZIP CODE......................................
> TEL PHONE........................................
> MOIBLE #........................................
> so that the payment can get to you.
> i am waiting for your fruitful response
> thanks
I am very interested in buying this your car,
> which is £10,400
> so there is a client of mine who is owing me the sum of £16,500
> ,which i can instruct him to issue out the cheque to you as soon as
> possible.payment will be made via Cashiers Cheque drawn on a Uk Bank,Which
> i believe is the fastest way the payment could be made, so i am willing to
> entrust you with the excess funds on the cost,which you must send to my
> shipper via western union money transfer as soon as the Chequeclears in
> your Bank.My Shipper will be on ground to pick-up the car in your
> location to sign the relevant titles and papers on my behalf as soon as we
> seal the transaction and the payment is made.So if my Payment terms is
> acceptable with you,you can mail me back to know in time and forward me
> your,
> FULL NAME.......................
> FULL ADDRESS............................
> ZIP CODE......................................
> TEL PHONE........................................
> MOIBLE #........................................
> so that the payment can get to you.
> i am waiting for your fruitful response
> thanks
29 November 2004, 01:01 PM
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i am waiting for your fruitful response
There's a good website for stinging these tosspots along and wasting as much of their time as possible, think it's 419eater.com or something like that.
Someone posted a brilliant link to a guy who used e-bay a lot and received tons of mail from scammers. He had a list of various dialogues where he'd strung them along and some of them were pure class. I'll have a search for the post
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I advertised a supermoto race bike on a web site in the uk and got at least five emails from an ******* in south africa(or so he said) who was about to send round his courier to collect it, armed with a shiny new bank draft with my name on it, although he didn,t know my name.....funny that!!!!!!!!! I would only sell to a guy in person........ if he wanted the car, a flight to the uk from holland couldn,t be that expensive and personally i wouldn,t buy a car that i hadn,t seen.........
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