What do you make of this?
08-17-2011, 11:52 AM
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08-17-2011, 11:53 AM
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Ive put my car up for sale and had some interest from this person, could this be someone trying to launder money? Here's the email:
Great. am glad to read from you ,will appreciate more pictures... i am
a marine engineer, i am at sea right now.I am buying this for my son
as a surprise promise Gift so am willing to offer you the amount you
required. I can only pay through PayPal at the moment as i don't have
access to my bank account online(i don't have internet banking with
it), but i have it attached to my PayPal account, and this is why i
insisted on using PayPal to pay,all i will need is your PayPal email
address to make the payments, and if you don't have a PayPal account
yet, you can set one up at www.paypal.co.uk it cant take you less than
3mins to do that, i will be expecting your PayPal email so l can pay .
I have a pick up agent that will come for the pick up after payments
has been sorted.
l will be waiting for your reply asap
Great. am glad to read from you ,will appreciate more pictures... i am
a marine engineer, i am at sea right now.I am buying this for my son
as a surprise promise Gift so am willing to offer you the amount you
required. I can only pay through PayPal at the moment as i don't have
access to my bank account online(i don't have internet banking with
it), but i have it attached to my PayPal account, and this is why i
insisted on using PayPal to pay,all i will need is your PayPal email
address to make the payments, and if you don't have a PayPal account
yet, you can set one up at www.paypal.co.uk it cant take you less than
3mins to do that, i will be expecting your PayPal email so l can pay .
I have a pick up agent that will come for the pick up after payments
has been sorted.
l will be waiting for your reply asap
Don't be in a rush to sell, your car is lovely and will easily sell to the right person
08-17-2011, 12:15 PM
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I had a similar one when trying to buy an S2000 - the guy was definitely English - advert on PH. Story gradually started changing until he asked me to pay a £2500 deposit by Western Union 
08-17-2011, 12:31 PM
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definitely seems like a scam but reporting it to the police will only inform them of a dodgy e-mail address as technically they haven't broken the law or robbed you yet.
they could possibly ask you to play along to investigate it and help catch them.
they could possibly ask you to play along to investigate it and help catch them.
08-17-2011, 01:22 PM
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Thanks everyone, ive had these sort of emails before when ive advertised other cars, I just cant believe the cheek of these people, as its already been said who the hell buys a car without looking first. Didnt expect this from an ad in the bargain pages though 
08-17-2011, 02:31 PM
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The wonders of modern technology are double-edged - just as it's now easier to reach a wider audience, it's easier for a wider audience to reach us.
Not sure why Irvatron thinks iwanttobescammed@paypal.com is dodgy though - Iwantobe seemed completely genuine to me and my commission will arrive any day now
08-18-2011, 02:20 AM
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Best thing you can do is string them along and make them waste as much of their time as possible. http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm
08-18-2011, 02:23 AM
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This kind of reminds me of something I keep meaning to do...
Setup one of those ultra high rate premium numbers, and make a recording of someone ansering the phone but getting distracted and asking people in the background to turn down the TV etc. Drag this out for several minutes.
Then fill out loads of random internet questionares and all that other crap and put this down as your contact number. Hopefully this number will get circulated and you will get people ringing you to try and sell you stuff and they will get charged to do so.
Reason I just thought of this is that you could string these people along and ask them yo ring you on the nnumber in order to arrange payment
Setup one of those ultra high rate premium numbers, and make a recording of someone ansering the phone but getting distracted and asking people in the background to turn down the TV etc. Drag this out for several minutes.
Then fill out loads of random internet questionares and all that other crap and put this down as your contact number. Hopefully this number will get circulated and you will get people ringing you to try and sell you stuff and they will get charged to do so.
Reason I just thought of this is that you could string these people along and ask them yo ring you on the nnumber in order to arrange payment