dwood Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 hey folks. as you know i have my car for sale on here and few other places, a guy has tried to dupe me, he said he was a marine engineer working at sea(fair enough) and he wanted to buy my car,he said he wanted to pay the full price and that someone is collecting it for him. (fair enough again) so did a request payment for lucwater***@gmail.com. than got another email saying he is sending payment and that the parson collecting it was coming from malaysia(WTF) and that he neeeded me to do western something or other at the post office for £600. straight away my response was go fornicate witha small animal or yourself. so be warned folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheefa Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Be warned of what - your own stupidity if you were to follow through with the transfer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Be warned of what - your own stupidity if you were to follow through with the transfer? Harsh... but fair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo2810 Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 My god... I'm pretty sure thats the scam my granny was almost duped with in 1994 .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassan Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 When i was selling my Audi A8 i got loads of these C**ts trying to scam me. Just be carefull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l33wgn Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Yeah ive got loads of these when selling cars recently, they're easy to spot after a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kill1308 Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Yeah I had this one too... got spammed loads of times with stupid rubbish like this. I quite enjoy playing along with them for a while just to see what they will come out with next. There's quite a few good websites where people really play these scammers and some of them make for some really good reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 My ex's mum was chatting to a guy online for aaaaages and he wanted to come over and see her. She sent him a grand and never heard from him again! whooops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwood Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 i am not stupid enough to fall for it cos i kind of knew where it was going, just wanted to see how far they was willing to take it so i could tell them to go f themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 My ex's mum was chatting to a guy online for aaaaages and he wanted to come over and see her. She sent him a grand and never heard from him again! whooops. Tell her thanks as it covered the costs of my new lights and an RS-R exhaust. I would have actually called by and banged her but she had a face like a dropped pie..!! I think what Mr dwood is trying to say is that if anyone gets asked to forward money, especially through Western Union, you are being scammed. H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwood Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 what i am getting at is that why cant you just sell a car thesse days without someone trying to scam or rip you off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straightsix Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 That last message was just alive with proverbs.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwood Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 thanks havard. just trying to do a friendly deed and all i seem to get is, A funny comment. some people are much more trusting than some of us so lets hope it does not happen to you aye. sheefa lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwood Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 so now we are in a english grammer class. tell you what. if anyone has any comments other than "scammers and scaming" , why dont you post elsewhere. start your own thread maybe. a thread on english grammer maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 so now we are in a english grammer class. tell you what. if anyone has any comments other than "scammers and scaming" , why dont you post elsewhere. start your own thread maybe. a thread on english grammer maybe. It's grammar. Sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwood Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 i have had 3 so far. they all seem to be with gmail.com if only we had that many honest buyers instead of scammers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkddav3 Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 ive had this too! was looking for a raptor 660 quad and saw one i liked, was advertised in london so i thought easyyyyyyy! contacted the guy and he said it was actually in spain and that he wanted to do a bank transfer over western union, it was a few years ago so i was rather nieve, came to my senses not long after and told him where to go western union is a NO NO NO for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 It's grammar. Sorry Got balls now Joshy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDM Power Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Just an example about ME as JDM Power Germany I´m always interested in buying cars in the UK which I inspect personally with the seller and paying cash on collection. Everything else is just non-sense ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kill1308 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Ignore the grammar police... they clearly have nothing better to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrik Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 i actually managed to fool myself into getting scammed. I was desperate for cash and had an advert on my car out for 6months and was desperate since i just bought a house and money was running out. They phoned me 2-3 times with different persons giving different variants of deals that would end up with them having the car transporting it to a buyer and then taking the difference in my price and theirs as comission. I clearly told them no way but as this happened under 1-2 weeks in time i started thinking maybe its not such a bad idea what do i have to loose? So then an energetic and talkitive salesman phoned me up and told me he had a buyer he would arrange everything but he need the papers signed today and he would drive 300km to get the car today and drive the car to the buyer after this. he came and warning bells started ringing unfortunatley he was faster than lightning and did the talk the talk and a lot of distractions. i think all in it took about 8-10min until i had signed the car over to him and he and his cloney drove off with the car. he called me again and again to report the progress in selling the car or rather the lack of progress. after 4-5 days i see my car for sale at a car dealer for about half the price i had asked for it and new i was screwed. after 2 years the law caught up with the guy and he got 3 ½ years in jail and i lost my car and could not get it back so that was about 12000pounds down. Im going to be sorry for this all my life and should have listened to myself instead of the grifter. the funny thing is that in my brain there was this little voice crying out all along your being set up your being set up, so in the end i fooled myself more than he did. well the lesson is i never will trust anybody again even if they hand me the money in the hand i go to the bank first to check they are not false. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnk Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Ouch !! For me to part with my car its cash paid into the bank on the day or the car goes nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 i actually managed to fool myself into getting scammed. I was desperate for cash and had an advert on my car out for 6months and was desperate since i just bought a house and money was running out. They phoned me 2-3 times with different persons giving different variants of deals that would end up with them having the car transporting it to a buyer and then taking the difference in my price and theirs as comission. I clearly told them no way but as this happened under 1-2 weeks in time i started thinking maybe its not such a bad idea what do i have to loose? So then an energetic and talkitive salesman phoned me up and told me he had a buyer he would arrange everything but he need the papers signed today and he would drive 300km to get the car today and drive the car to the buyer after this. he came and warning bells started ringing unfortunatley he was faster than lightning and did the talk the talk and a lot of distractions. i think all in it took about 8-10min until i had signed the car over to him and he and his cloney drove off with the car. he called me again and again to report the progress in selling the car or rather the lack of progress. after 4-5 days i see my car for sale at a car dealer for about half the price i had asked for it and new i was screwed. after 2 years the law caught up with the guy and he got 3 ½ years in jail and i lost my car and could not get it back so that was about 12000pounds down. Im going to be sorry for this all my life and should have listened to myself instead of the grifter. the funny thing is that in my brain there was this little voice crying out all along your being set up your being set up, so in the end i fooled myself more than he did. well the lesson is i never will trust anybody again even if they hand me the money in the hand i go to the bank first to check they are not false. :-) Sorry to hear this. These people prey on the vulnerable and desperate for cash. I would lose my mind in similar circumstances. H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Raven Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Wow the guy comes on here to warn people and gets slagged off....well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobsta_01 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I had one of these when i was selling my merc. It seemed very dodgy at the time and i almost fell over laughing when he offered me a few £100 more than i had the car advertised for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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