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03-24-2011, 10:41 AM | #1 |
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Is this a scam???
I have my 09 M3 for sale and just received this e-mail. Sounds like a scam to me
Thanks for the response to my text. I am a British Soldier currently deployed with the 1st Armoured Division in Afghanistan and out here it is difficult accessing a phone regularly due to the nature of my profession, so I might not be able to get through to you on phone. I best communicate here via the internet. I am fine with the price and want to purchase it from you. In regards to payments, i am keen on making this purchase immediately and would like to make payments to you ASAP via pay pal as I can’t go to my bank to get the money wired to you. Pay pal is a safe and secure medium to receive and make payments online without divulging too much personal information, if you have an account already do get back to me with it so I can go on to make an instant payment to you and if you don’t you can go to pay pal company website to set up an account. It is linked with your bank account thereby making funds accessible as soon as you receive payments. I will also arrange for pick up and delivery to Malaysia with a freight company and the freight company will handle all paper works regarding the sale and transfer of title. Looking forward to read from you soonest. |
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Just in case you can reply, I will send the car as soon as I receive the payment in my paypal account. So many scams out there though, where is your car listed? I've tried to sell a couple cars on craigs list after having luck getting rid of one of them a couple years ago, but ever since its just scam after scam and all sorts of other crap.
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03-24-2011, 10:51 AM | #5 |
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cold be legit, you're the one with the car at the end of the day, and if no money is paid, then no car is delivered, simple as that.
I wouldn't give him your address or anything, just give him your paypal address and tell him, if no money then no car. 100% of the money has to be delivered before a tow truck can come and pick it up. only weird thing is, why a british guy want a US car? |
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03-24-2011, 10:52 AM | #7 |
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If you receive the money in paypal first and make sure the money is cleared, I think it will be okay. Although it is pretty sketchy!
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03-24-2011, 10:56 AM | #9 |
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I'd say yes, it is. When I sold my e46 in December, I got an email quite similar to this one. In mine, the military guy was buying it for his dad as a Christmas present. In fact, I got it literally seconds after I placed the ad in Auto Trader. As much as I wanted to believe it, I ignored it completely, as I started getting other offers, but I kept wondering where the scam was if I simply had to give him my PayPal info. I mean, all he could do is give me money, right?
I understand that is exactly right. Apparently the scam is to deposit something way short of asking price, claim that was the agreed to deal, and then threaten to sue you (in their place of the world) for fraud if you don't produce the car for the lesser price. Puts you in a spot where you have settle for some dollar amount to make it all go away. You've heard if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't? I'd apply it in this case. Good luck with the sale. |
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03-24-2011, 11:02 AM | #11 |
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I say possible scam, sounds like a similar email buying a bike from someone on a biking site in January, note same description of the person:
http://www.netrider.net.au/forums/sh...6&postcount=13
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Definitely a scam...feel free to mess with him though to waste his time (lower is expected return and he may stop doing it)
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I asked him why he would ship the car to Malaysia if he was a British soldier and the reply was ( sorry I made a typing mistake I mean England) I asked him a few more questions and this was his reply
i told you i am a British soldier,please i have a little time to use on here,would like to purchase if you are selling before my time runs off here,please send me your paypal account.cheers |
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Do not give him your paypal. Waste his time demanding his bank information, so that you can "receive" his payment. It'll piss him off.
Scammers hate when someone tries to cheat them in the middle of their scamming operation. Give him a taste of his own medicine. |
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I am wondering if there is not something more to this that involves him somehow getting ahold of your paypal account. Just a thought. Bad idea. But I wonder if you can give him someone else's who doesn't care about their account. Maybe set up a shill account, and as soon as he pays (if he does - which I am skeptical of) you shut off the account or just remove the link to the bank account that backs it. |
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03-24-2011, 11:18 AM | #22 |
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c'mon man seriously? I get tons of these everyday , total scammers , I wonder if anyone ever fell for this shit
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