Thread: Online Car sales scam

There are various types of these scams going around, one that nearly caught my dad out was a guy enquiring about his 64 Ford XM ute that he was selling. Guy said he was a merchant sailor and that he wanted to buy the car for his dad , he said he had an agent in the UK that handled purchases for him and he asked that we send a western union payment to him as a buying fee and he'd pay the purchase price by paypal, luckily dad asked me and it rang alarm bells so i replied to him with a few choice words. Written english was perfect and quite possibly could have been an aussie. Mostly these emails are from .live, yahoo, etc not an isp address.

Is it just me or is there a lot of this crap happening out there?

Got another one via SMS this time.

From Changes678 "Hello, I saw your ad. on Drive. I'm ready to offer you 47,000AUD for the vehicle. For quick response,email me at: kelvinrace45 at hotmail .com. Kelvin."

The text and grammar above is as sent.

Why offer me 2k more than what I'm asking?
Why AUD? Does he think I want it in pesos or something?
Why can't I text him back instead of emailing him?

I wonder how well they'd do if they got their scams proof read.