Hi,

 

I am selling my Nissan 300zx TT and have it advertised it on a couple of sites including this forum.

 

I got an email from one guy yesterday from another forum, for which I believe is a scam as they have asked for my personal details and bank details etc.

 

Has anyone else experienced such emails?

 

I copied part of his email in Google and other emails almost identical to the one I received is going around in other forums so I thought i'd warn you all to be ware

 

Here are the emails I received:

 

Email 1:

Hello

 

I am interested in buying the Nissan 300zx Twin Turbo that you have placed for

sell now, and I would want to enquire about the present condition of the above

mentioned, as well as some detail about you. I expect this timely enough.

 

As for the payment, I would need you to get back in touch with the last asking

price as I will be paying with a certified cheque.

 

Lastly, please forward to me your full company's (or house address, telephone

and fax) details as I will subsequently prefer reaching you through these

facilities.

 

Yours interestingly,

 

Raymond Griffiths

 

(I replied with basic details thinking this was lagitimate)

 

2nd Email:

 

Hello

 

Thanks for your response and your mail content duly noted.

 

You can not belief how only I had wish meeting you personally to discuss this regrettably I am no longer based in the UK but now resides here in Canada on similar business interest and also have a family owned old aged whare house and home located in Scotland (storage & restoration unit) which is being run by my lovely daughter and wife.

 

So, would you please inform me if I am to purchase it as is bottom line price on the vehicle(quote your price minus shipping cost) and in the same doing send to me necessary details--Bank Name and Mailing address, telephone number(s), Your full name (plus telephone number(s) and Banking Cordinates--to which this cheque should be payable to thus we could effect electronical transfer of the cheque to your Bank account swiftly without much ado. On the shipment, I have a recommended haulier there who will be contracted to meet with you for inspection, survey and arrangement for it being transferred to Scotland.

 

On getting the cheque cashed and all agreement are proven to be legitimate, he (the haulier) will be directed to establish contact with you for immediate transfer of the car to Scotland where my wife and son are designated for receiving orders made by me or by our customer(s) who has placed such order.

 

Raymond

LOL Raymond needs to decide if his Scottish business is run by his wife and daughter or wife and son :rofl:

BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

 

 

If you dont know this is a scam you deserve to be scammed and your head cut off for being so dumb and a wasting good food and air for the rest of us.

This is how I dealt with one of these scammers... when I sent the email the "F" word was not edited :rofl:

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Lee - Import-ance

To: auguster amas

Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 6:02 PM

Subject: Re: Toyota Hiace Campervan

 

 

Thanks for making the effort to write an email regarding the Hiace, but I

am not interested but I have this message for you.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

F**K OFF AND DON'T WASTE MY TIME!!

----- Original Message -----

From: auguster amas

To: lee_janjua@blueyonder.co.uk

Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 5:29 PM

Subject: Toyota Hiace Campervan

 

 

hello seller,

thanks so much for advertising your caravan on this site.motocaravanning.co.uk. am very glad coming across this advert. my name is miss auguster amas from seattle wa just relocated to uk for a private asignment . i will like to have this van for private use. whats the last price.more pics are wellcome. miss auguster.

 

 

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A very curious style of writing, half like it's been stolen from a solicitors letter, the other half by someone for whom English is clearly a second language but has a spelling checker.

Its just a complete reversal of the old "Selling from abroad payment before you see the car and send it back if you dont like it" scam!

The thing with this type of thing, if you go to the cops they just look blankly at you and say there's nothing they can do.

The thing with this type of thing, if you go to the cops they just look blankly at you and say there's nothing they can do.

yeah cops are Sh!t, 99% are idiots, the other 1% are still training :rofl:

If you have an email address, reply with as many attachments (pics of cars) as you can so as to block his mailbox. Publish his email on here and we will all send him an email with large attachments. You get 3 to 400 do that and his email system will be out of service for ages.

BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

 

 

If you dont know this is a scam you deserve to be scammed and your head cut off for being so dumb and a wasting good food and air for the rest of us.

 

LOL 2nd!

yeah cops are Sh!t, 99% are idiots, the other 1% are still training :rofl:

I wouldn't go that far, i meant there is nothing that they "can" do.

My mate works in Afghanistan and asked me to sell his MGTF (2 YEARS AGO) i sold it to a Nigerian scammer (this type of thing was fairly new then) i received a bankers draught for £15000 i took it to the Bank of Scotland (East Kilbride) was told it would take 5 days to clear so left it with them and returned after 5 days picked up the £15000, i then went to Lunn Polly to do a western union transfer of 2 grand for the "shipping" fee's. It was the guy in Lunn Polly who realised it was a scam and said i would not get the money, he was even more surprised when i showed him the 15 grand, even so on his advice i went to the cops, told them the story and put the 15 grand on the desk, they just looked at me and said "what do you want us to do" as no crime had been commited according to them. I then took the money back to the bank and they said everything was above board, i had to open an account with them to place the money in as they said it was mine as the bankers draught had cleared. Three weeks later the bank called to confirm what i had told them and the bankers draughts were fake. I even had the Nigerian calling me asking for his money, when i told him the police had it he hung up and never called again.

so did you get to keep the 15 k??