Thread: Is this a scam

Originally Posted by reubsrover

I have a vehicle advertised on this forum and this forum only. Got an e-mail this morning...

"Hello i saw your item listing and am interested i want to know if you still have this item available for sale?i can only pay through pay pal and after payment has been made i will make the necessary arrangement for the item pick up.please get back to me asap."

Sounding pretty suspicious to me. Anyone else recieved a similar e-mail?
Also can you view cars for sale without an account?

Bingo!

Got one myself this morning re some tyres I have advertised.

...........................Hello i saw your item listing and am interested i want to know if you still have this item available for sale?i can only pay through pay pal and after payment has been made i will make the necessary arrangement for the item pick up.please get back to me asap. Thanks................

was sent at 3.47am this morning from a yahoo.com account.

Sound familiar?

Deano

Quite similar...mine was sent at 3:38 however.

Geez. It'd be nice to scam the scammers, even wasting their time would be fun, but how to go about it. Do you reckon they'd be smart enough to check the forum to see if they'd been cottoned on to ?

Deano

Originally Posted by reubsrover

I have a vehicle advertised on this forum and this forum only. Got an e-mail this morning...

"Hello i saw your item listing and am interested i want to know if you still have this item available for sale?i can only pay through pay pal and after payment has been made i will make the necessary arrangement for the item pick up.please get back to me asap."

Sounding pretty suspicious to me. Anyone else recieved a similar e-mail?
Also can you view cars for sale without an account?

i got the same email about a set of wheels, just replied with i dont use paypal and its a cash in hand sale only. funny no reply.
Have also had half a dozen or so txt and emails similar for my skyline, like "am verry interested in you car on car sales can you send me more information directly to my email at "scam@dumbass.com" etc", and if you reply to the txt's you get a message send failure due to the fact it has come from a one way line. but at the end of the day they wouldn't keep trying these scams if they didn't get some people to hand over their hard earned cash.

Well I alerted the mods and the user profile linked to that email address has been banned on this site now but then again any serious scammer would send probably hundreds (at least) of e-mails out at once I'd assume so whether she/he actually realises they are now banned...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

i have banned the user in question

fair enough history certainly alludes to it being a scam but nothing has occurred to show that it is, in this instance, other than there being multiple messages.

just because someone wants to pay with paypal doesn't automatically make it a scam...

and just because some one puts a claim in doesn't mean they are automatically refunded.

i personally have found that paypal is particularly good at working out who is trying to scam who.

you mileage may well vary

So how do we hook up the Nigerian "I have eleventy gazillion dollars to put into your account" with them?

Very true Dave and that is why I trying to not simply assume. For all we know (perhaps very unlikely) it could be some poor chap or in this case by the address, sheila who is a little poor at English and thus copied a bit of text from Google... or maybe not. I should let them know that my car does actually include wheels in the sale.