Toyota 2000 GT

[mattbibbey]

I find it strange that some people do actually fall for that

As do I. Absurd that anyone would not smell the rat when it's over £100k short of even a good price. lol. There was one very recently for a 240Z on eBay wasn't there. I think that car even belonged to a member! lol

 

[andrew muir]

The guy is still corresponding to me!!
Just playing along with his scam but I wonder if this should be turned over to the police etc.
Apparently the car is in Valletta in Malta.
Get this, price includes shipping to UK
The Guy is not keen on me seeing the car, I wonder why?
He says in is boxed up ready to ship.
I told him I would have to see the car first!

Awaiting his response

 

[MaximG]

Pretty sure this scam was featured on the One Show a few days ago. As it said on the programme "if you cant touch the metal".

 

[Dale]

The guy is still corresponding to me!!
Just playing along with his scam but I wonder if this should be turned over to the police etc.
Apparently the car is in Valletta in Malta.
Get this, price includes shipping to UK
The Guy is not keen on me seeing the car, I wonder why?
He says in is boxed up ready to ship.
I told him I would have to see the car first!

Awaiting his response

Andy, tell him that you can get the money but it is in a savings account and you can't access it for 28 days unless you pay a charge of £200 which you don't have right now. Ask him to send over the £200 pounds so you can get the £15k for him.

Alternatively, ask him to print a photo of the car and for him to send over a picture of him holding the photo of said car with the words Ford Escort written on it, to prove he is not one of those dreadful scammers we keep hearing about.

Here is a website for people who bait scammers and ask for photographic evidence by getting them to pose with a piece of paper with the baiters choice of words. Quite funny, but there maybe some images not safe for work, I haven't looked through them for a while.
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album_cat.php?cat_id=1&sid=56931b652462c9224d2744069b803da4

An example photo below.

 

[Stockdale]

Scamming is so very very common on advertising sites whether they be selling or buying. I have personal experience of more than the fingers (and thumbs) of both hands and have now got my socks off!

On the seller-scam side if if looks to good to be true then it probably is.

On the buyer side, I've had some pretty fabulous e-mail correspondence from near-Europe (France and Denmark are particularly bad). The are so convincing. There is usually a sob-story (I am injured by a traffic accident or there is extreme illness in immediate family preventing my viewing).

As things progress they will be very accommodating and will want detailed photo's and service records. They will wan't to pay via Paypal only and will sometimes say that they will need to pay their courier (thief in arms!) and will add their cost (normally about £300) to the Paypal amount. Its all very polished. You will be required to request the Paypal funding from the address they give and 'he-presto' it comes through.

Seems great. Courier arrives within hours and the item (car) disappear's. 24 hours later you will get a message from Paypal saying the withdrawn funds were scammed (the account had been fished and actually belonged to a farmer in Yorkshire!) and they want the money back. Item (car) gone. Courier got his money. Pretty much no chance of recovery and you will have to reimburse Paypal!!!!! The police are not at all interested.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt!

 

[jaydeescuba]

**** man there's some arseholes out there :-(

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