Used car scam

[Abzynthe]

Not sure if anyone has had this before when selling a car, but thought id share

I got n email asking if my car was still available. I told them it was and I got the below email.

Hi again,

Thank you for getting back, Anyway, I'll like to know your final asking price. How I wish i could come for inspection but I'm currently out of town for my UN course.

Due to this inability to bring cash physically, the best way ao pay for me would be through PayPal which is safer for you and I will cover the PayPal transfer fees. Kindly send me a PayPal payment invoice or create an account at www.PayPal.co.uk if you don't have one.

I will arrange with my pick up agent to collect from you as it is the best way I can handle this professionally.

Please, I'd like to know certain things too; Are you the first owner? What is your reason for selling? I'm sorry, just want to be sure about the sale before i proceed on payment.

Regards,

Tereza

Looking online, if you send over an invoice on paypal, you then get fake emails from paypal saying you have received money and they then ask you to pay the courier for her through Western Union.

 

[RCZ1]

I've heard about this before. Anything that looks foreign avoid like the plague!


Blog: http://rczandme.wordpress.com/

 

[Anonymous]

At least he's not a Nigerian prince.

 

[Anonymous]

At least he's not a Nigerian prince.

"...out of town for my UN course." :lol::lol::lol::lol: Who falls for these things?!

 

[Tomas_90]

I had one of these guys interested in buying my old car. He nearly had me actually cause he sent maybe 4 or 5 different E-mails asking about the condition of the car and asked if he could see some newer pictures, cause actually the ones i had posted were a year old. But the whole just didn't seem right.

He also wanted and could only pay via Paypal because he himself was a marine engineer working in Bermuda or some place like that for the moment. Then he would have someone else come pick the car up and sign the paperwork.

Tho, why would a marine enginner traveling all over the world buy a 1983 Corolla from Finland of all places?! :lol:

 

[renegade79]

"Tho, why would a marine enginner traveling all over the world buy a 1983 Corolla from Finland of all places?! "

Because they're a reliable old crate them corollas

 

[Anonymous]

Anything that looks foreign avoid like the plague!

Headline quote from the EDL manifesto.

 

[RCZ1]

Anything that looks foreign avoid like the plague!

Headline quote from the EDL manifesto.

Lol :grin: sorry wasn't intended to sound like that. What I was implying m'lord was that on eBay, if you get any correspondence which originates from abroad and seems dodgy, then it probably will be !


Blog: http://rczandme.wordpress.com/

 

[Anonymous]

Anything that looks foreign avoid like the plague!

Headline quote from the EDL manifesto.

Lol :grin: sorry wasn't intended to sound like that. What I was implying m'lord was that on eBay, if you get any correspondence which originates from abroad and seems dodgy, then it probably will be !


Blog: http://rczandme.wordpress.com/

Haha, I know; I was just pulling your leg!

The last eBay item I sold resulted in me being contacted by a guy who wanted me to make money by importing cigarettes.

How kind! All I had to do was wire him the initial start up costs and I'd be rolling in it.

 

[Anonymous]

I'd be rolling in it.

That is the one thing every scam has in common, we would all be rolling in it if we would only respond!!!!!!!!!