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Suspicious email about buying my car

jeff lebowski · 2008-09-10 15:24:52

Hi, I had an offer from someone looking to buy my car without seeing it or test driving it. They said they will send me a bank draft and arrange shipment. Anyone familiar with anything like this which could be dodgy? it seems a bit mad too me!

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10-09-2008 4:24pm

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jeff lebowski

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Hi,

I had an offer from someone looking to buy my car without seeing it or test driving it. They said they will send me a bank draft and arrange shipment. Anyone familiar with anything like this which could be dodgy? it seems a bit mad too me!

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#2 10-09-2008 4:27pm
LolaDub

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Scam scam scam.

This is a really common scam, they'll send you a bank draft for more than the amount you ask for then ask you to refund the difference after you've sent the car. Then a while later the bank will reject the bank draft and you'll have lost the car, the payment and what you've refunded. Stay well clear and report it to the site you're selling your car on.

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#3 10-09-2008 4:30pm
fletch

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scam

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#4 10-09-2008 4:30pm
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Scam

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#5 10-09-2008 4:33pm
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Genuine!

sorry, yeh scam.

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#6 10-09-2008 4:34pm
jeff lebowski

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Yeah, I was 99.99% sure it was a scam. I was just wondering if anyone had a similar email. This is the car: http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=65522&cat=500 Dunno if they saw it there or on another site though.

The buyer purported to be from Aberdeen yet the English was atrocious. They said they would only get the car shipped to them after the bank draft cleared.

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#7 10-09-2008 4:36pm
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I'm guessing the car is to be shipped to Lagos and you are also a beneficiary of the great sultan's off shore bank account to which you have a right to 50% of

These people should be shot..(in the nicest possible way of course..)

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#8 10-09-2008 4:36pm
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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055329432&page=2

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#9 10-09-2008 4:38pm
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jeff lebowski wrote: »

Yeah, I was 99.99% sure it was a scam. I was just wondering if anyone had a similar email. This is the car: http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=65522&cat=500 Dunno if they saw it there or on another site though.

The buyer purported to be from Aberdeen yet the English was atrocious. They said they would only get the car shipped to them after the bank draft cleared.

The cheque initally seems to clear, but then you get a call 5-7 days later telling you otherwise.. I've seen this

By the way, nice car

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#10 10-09-2008 4:39pm
Canis Lupus

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jeff lebowski wrote: »

The buyer purported to be from Aberdeen yet the English was atrocious. They said they would only get the car shipped to them after the bank draft cleared.

That's cos he was Nigerian.

May god bless and keep you.

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#11 10-09-2008 4:48pm
jeff lebowski

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By the way, nice car

Wanna buy it?!

Apparently he's a Sailor from Denmark who usually lives in Aberdeen....lol. I think I'll keep replying for the craic and waste his time.

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#12 10-09-2008 4:52pm
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I've my sisters car advertised in various places for her at the moment, I've had to take my email address off most of the ads, the scams are unbelievable and some even say we'll give you an extra 50 euro to remove the ad immediately.. wtf like

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#13 10-09-2008 4:56pm
smash

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I wonder how many threads there's been about this topic so far....

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#14 10-09-2008 5:09pm
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jeff lebowski wrote: »

lol. I think I'll keep replying for the craic and waste his time.

That'd be your time, those emails are pretty much automated.:)

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#15 10-09-2008 5:21pm
Tipsy Mac

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It's 100% legit, it's the new way of buying cars, no looking just buy and they are usually from a country where the car you are selling would cost much less.

The more people to get burned by these idiots the better, it will educate the remaining idiots in the country.

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#16 10-09-2008 5:37pm
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OP, stop pimping your car.

Not your ornery onager

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