My car (WRX STi5) is advertised on auto trader at £9,950. today i recieved this e-mail.....

Hi my name is *******, saw you car advert on net and like you to know am interested, BUYING FOR Price: £9,950,pls let me know the conditon of the car and if its still available, i will also want you to know that am based in Uk but never mind i have a shipping agent that is going to come for the pickup at your place.
Thanks .
*******

I'm assuming he meant to say he's not from UK, does this sound genuine or should i avoid ?

I've replied with a description and requested cash payment prior to or on delivery which must be banked before i let the car go.

 

seems to follow same pattern of all the other scams - except they normally give you MORE than the wanted price

If you tell them that ONLY cash will be allowed then they can make up their own mind..

 

Selling then Chris ......

Gary

 

bankers drafts can go through then bounce several weeks later.

I'd run a mile.

 

Must be banked and cleared, and even then you could fall foul
Even if a bankers draft clears and then found to be stolen, you loose out

Tony

 

and if someone pays cash, take them to the bank and pay it in over the counter. Once its in, any fake notes are the banks loss.

BTW, walk away from this one, it will be a scam.

 

Cash and walked to the bank is the ONLY way!

Personally I wouldn't even entertain the offer!

Pete

 

Same happened to a mate with his Honda 'bird on Ebay, scammers had a local rep.
Ignore.
My mate your way too.

 

gary - yeh. trip to middle east coming up which s gonna be followed by 2 year post abroad (somewhere hot all year round hopefully ) forces sale mate. not selling trackcar though, that'll get stored at my parents if need be .

I said in my reply 'cash only' and i wanted it banked before the car is taken

I personally think its a scam too,

Oh, just noticed the word 'sound' missing from title, doh!

 

There have been other threads about this scam. It's all to do with international banking. The money clears in your bank, you give the car up, then the foreign bank doesn't clear it, so your bank claims it back out of your account! Or something along those lines.

STAY WELL CLEAR! and tell your friends, too many people getting done by this one.

 

Yes mate it's one of the most well known scams! My mate had it more or less straight away when he put his on Autotrader.

If you go to the Autotrader website it has a list of all the known scams it's users have come across and this is one of them.

Another cheeky one is someone sends you a txt message asking you to give them a call and it turns out to be a premium rate number, so you get hammered for the phone bill and you haven't even got a woman talking dirty to you for the privilege ;-)

 

had this as a reply:

Hi Chris,
I will like to say a big thank you for your reply, am satisfied with the
condition of the car think it would be a great buy.Its perfectly okay in
England. I travel a lot in my line of buisness hence the reason why i choose
not to acquire a car since i sold the last one i had. I am ok with the car's
picture and it will be good to let you know that i will be paying you with
a bank draft or company's cheque that was intended for me through services
rendered (£15,000).The only problem is that sum owed me by the investment
company is more than the price of your car. I would greatly appreciate if you could deduct sum
of your car(£9,950) from the amount and have the rest of (£5,050) sent to my shipping agent ( through western union money transfer) so that they will come for
the pickup of the car in your location. I will wait till draft or cheque
clears before i instruct my shipping agent to take up ownership of car on
my behalf. I r eally am very sorry that it has to be this way but i do not
want to miss out on this great buy. Please send me the following information
below so i could have the company make out the draft in your name and send it to you
immediately.Thanks.
full name...............
full address.................
mobile phone number..................
Waiting to read from you soonest
****



How should i tell him to get fcuked in the nicest way

 

Sounds like a Nigerian scam......STAY WELL AWAY!!!

 

iwas gonna be rude but i refrained and replied with the following instead:

Do you really think i'm that stupid, no chance matey

bye bye

 

good move mate. I wander if he will reply to that?

 

Have a look here http://www.419eater.com/

 

i'd tell him it's already sold m8, your better off not selling it than getting ripped off imho.

 

TELL THE W@NKER OK BUT I WILL WAIT A YEAR FOR THE DRAFT TO CLEAR

 

It's a scam bud,just don't reply.

 

Please post this dip****s contact details and everyone should flood his mail box with mail and reverse charge calls to his mobile number...
It's the only way to stop this kind of thing.

The more abusive message you leave the better!

 

best way to deal with ******** like this is to lead them up the garden path - say how you love the idea and will of course send the monies on to the chap- make him think for a while that you have bitten -

http://www.wordspy.com/words/scambaiting.asp


enjoy and that goes for anyone else reading this!

 

http://www.scamorama.com

this is fab site for the chaps on here who get those nigerian cons in email all day like i do!

 

Iv had a few of these b4 m8 , stay well clear SCAM all the way ,

 

[QUOTE=CHRIS_D stear nice and clear in your scoob dear to precious to lose unless you choose

 

tell him to send the bankers draft to your works address-

metropolitan police financial investigations unit
new scotland yard
victoria
london
sw1