OK I've got my car for sale on Ebay and today I get a message from someone interested in buying the car sent an email back to him and got this in return;

 

Thanks for your Response

 

I agree with your price and ready to purchase the car.I will offer you*£ 5000* pound sterling *for the car and about the delivery have already*contacted a pick up agent coming for the collection of the car once*payment has been cleared from your PayPal account to your bank account*... I will not be able to view the car due to my absent in country at*moment(On a Business Trip),my pick up will sign all necessary*documents,including the Log Book when *they comes for the collection*for the car and he will do every necessary check up to know *if the*condition of the car is the same as you have described it,Kindly*confirm the Tax and MOT,i wait your PayPal email account to make the

payment

 

 

If any question,kindly give me a call on**07024015xxx

 

Seems too good to be true tbh especially as it's only been on Ebay for 5 hours

 

What do you guys think?

i love winding these scammers up :-) if you would like to pm me his email ill have a bash seen as ive got bugger al.l else to do at work today lol.

This is a well documented scam .... Copy and paste the email into google and you will see .... I get one every time I put a car up for sale doesn't matter if it's eBay auto trader or gum tree ... Like the first comment if its too good to be true it's a scam

The scam is they send a fake email that looks like a paypal one,it will say you have funds and have recieved a payment,gullible people at this point then post or release an item to its "buyer".A friend of mine had this twice when selling an i phone.Both times the buyers email siad the funds will only actually show in his account when he posts the goods and issues a tracking number,he had already recieved the "you have funds fake paypal e mail" it was so funny,after telling one nigerian to piss off he got a scam e mail from the head of paypal with his name signed at the bottom telling him to send the phone as it had been paid for and he was had broken the paypal contract.Talk about over gilding the lilly.

Not sure but I think these scammers have a way of re calling the money transfer after they've taken your property..

If you look at the gumtree forum at the bottom of the page and follow scamwatch you will see all kinds of scams with the way they work and not all nigerian I was caught by the Ainsworth gang who are operating from uk and blatently scamming mugs like me who think they are as honest us,lesson was learned the hard way.

Word for word I got he same email contact in 2009 on my 350z, be it from a sale on autotrader but the exact same wording I.e. terrible engrish!! :D

 

I managed to string this scammer along for 2 months, see if you can beat the record :D

 

Oh and if he starts talking western union bank transfers etc, check the email address of his 'associate' it something like flyguy99@yahoo.com...... Official as f€#k that guy! :D