Has anyone come across this spiel when selling a car?

[blueoval]

This site is pretty good for baiting scammers. http://www.419eater.com/

[GTpilot]

Originally Posted by XR037

Surprised that nothing can be done to stop these scams...oh welz...

Umm less lazy sellers that bother to read the help and assistance page on Carsales site.

http://helpcentre.carsales.com.au/help/scam-defence/

[GTP370]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Tell him to send the money, when it clears into YOUR BANK account you will transfer the $940, easy.

But alas it is a scam that I receive 10 times everytime I sell a car. None seem to make the transfer though???

I played along with the first one.

This was one of my reponses:

Hi, I'll get back to you on Tuesday with payment details, to payout finance, Monday being a public holiday.

Please confirm your name, address, mobile phone, australian drivers licence number so that I can prepare registartion transfer.

Also would you like make a $1000 deposit to remove the car from the market?

This was his response:


thanks for the mail, i really appreciate.about the transfer of reg , i was informed by a sail coulique here that your reg is not valied in NT so i think you will have to cancel the Reg as my wife will Re-reg it after delivery.In other way have given my details below for your reference. waiting to read from you so i can go ahead with the payment.

PS;Smyth Crisell Robert....DOB.....8th July 1970....DL..4199694.
32 Hatt Street ADELAIDE RIVER - DARWIN – NT


It was quite entertaining at one stage, but soon got boring.

I googled the house which was on realestate.com.au

[FTe342]

When I was selling my T3 TS50 I got heaps of them. They have no idea what the car is (and couldn't care less).
One wanted it for his aged father in Asia as a surprise gift!

[IronFalcon]

After I got a few emails like the one in the first post my PayPal mysteriously lost about $600... :(

Got it back though

[Minordian]

Had this recently selling my clubsport:

Thanks for the prompt response.. I am ready to buying it now for
birthday gift for brother in-law and i am at sea at the moment as i am
a marine engineer and due to the nature of my work, phone calls making
and visiting of website are restricted but i squeezed out time to
check this advert and send you an email regarding it. I really want
the car to be a surprise for brother in-law so i wont let him know
anything about the car until it gets delivered to him, i am sure he
will be more than happy with the car. I insisted on paypal because i
don't have access to my bank account online as i don't have internet
banking, but i can pay from my paypal account, as i have my bank a/c
attached to it, i will need you to give me your paypal email address
and the price so i can make the payments asap for the car and pls if
you don't have paypal account yet, it is very easy to set up, go to
www.paypal.com.au and get it set up, after you have set it up i will
only need the e-mail address you use for registration with paypal so
as to put the money through. I have a pick up agent that will come and
pick the car up after i have made the payments...



Had to send this back.....

Hi Jim – I wish you were my bother in law, so nice of you to buy him a car!

He will love this vehicle as it has the black paint colour and also the wheels are specially ‘rounded’ for maximum traction in the wet.

I must ask a word of caution as is your brother in law an experienced driver?

This car is very powerful and produces many kilowatt hours of power, made especially so as it has the special HSV flux capacimator fitted as a factory option at no cost to the dealer network.

Also, where does your brother in law live? We would need to consider in the delivery arrangement as the car would need to be picked up at my place of work which is at a government office? I must be careful disclosing the location. Do you see that this may inconvenience your cause?

I hope that you can answer my requested inquiries as I want to be sure as a duty of care that the car is in the control of a well trained driver as the power is something else.

Can I also ask you to get a Quote of Insurance before you buy as in the hands of young men and the inexperienced sometimes the cost is too high and then the sale falls though.



Got this back....


my brother inlaw is very good in driving,he in is from victoria,so let
me have your paypal email address for the payment

[ltd]

Just off another thread, ask the guy if he has a Bison tattoo and the words; "I give BJ's". http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthr...38#post3796438

[notty1978]

i get them and lots more every day... im sick of them.......

[IronFalcon]

Got it again today. Sad face.

[ZcAmbo]

I got about 6 of them on my phone via sms when i had my car listed on ebay told ebay about it they replied there was nothing they could do. grrrr

[mrbaxr6t]

I had a "cold" SMS with no return number saying "we are about to open a new import business in the USA and we want to specialize in importing Australian cars. We need an inventory of cars as demand For the Falcon is very high here in the USA, we are prepared to pay double the market value of all vehicles sent, but we need you to pay us via western union money transfer the shipping costs, let us know if you have any Ford Falcons for sale at present"

or something like that - they all aim to get you to send western union money xfers to some ******* with the promise of vast returns, if I want to throw money away I will spend it on cigarettes or alcohol not give it to some pecker from god-knows-where

[Craney]

We got so many oil rig worker emails from a Bikesales add a few months ago that we had a lot of fun telling the late comers they were too late.

Best of all tho was that we strung the first guy along for so long that he got p****d off at us!!

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by mrbaxr6t

western union money transfer

When you see Western Union, in anything, its a scam.