Strange car selling situation: advice needed
Discussion
Why did the seller do the V5 before the buyer had collected the car?
Easier to ensure you've been paid and it's all cleared and then get the buyer to collect the car (and do the V5 at that point).
Then you give him his part and send him on his way, whilst sending off your part.
You get paid, car goes and V5 is sent off.
Easier to ensure you've been paid and it's all cleared and then get the buyer to collect the car (and do the V5 at that point).
Then you give him his part and send him on his way, whilst sending off your part.
You get paid, car goes and V5 is sent off.
Soov535 said:
Sometimes payments can be reversed for a number of days. So our hero sends £1k back, and then the fraudster takes back the £2k and is £1k up.
Simple.
If that were the case surely the whole banking system would crumble. Are you saying I can make a payment to someone and then get it put back into my account? I don't think that's right.Simple.
Soov535 said:
Thankyou4calling said:
Soov535 said:
So wrong
Why is that wrong?.Simple.
deckster said:
It's not his money, so he's not interested in it back. It's a pretty simple scam really:
- He transfers money into your account, from somebody else's hacked account / fake bankers draft / whatever
- You transfer money back into a different account / cash / Western Union or something equally untraceable
- The original transfer is flagged as fraudulent and gets reversed. All of a sudden, you're down a grand and he's laughing.
Thankyou4calling said:
Soov535 said:
Sometimes payments can be reversed for a number of days. So our hero sends £1k back, and then the fraudster takes back the £2k and is £1k up.
Simple.
If that were the case surely the whole banking system would crumble. Are you saying I can make a payment to someone and then get it put back into my account? I don't think that's right.Simple.
We had 56k or similar appear, cleared, in our account. Left it there, it dissapeared again after a week or so. Turns out the payment was made via a stolen cheque but showed up exactly like a transfer when looking at the account online. We didn't hear anything from the scammers but the expected contact would have been alone the lines of transfer some of the money to X account, keep the rest as an apology.
foxsasha said:
We had 56k or similar appear, cleared, in our account. Left it there, it dissapeared again after a week or so. Turns out the payment was made via a stolen cheque but showed up exactly like a transfer when looking at the account online. We didn't hear anything from the scammers but the expected contact would have been alone the lines of transfer some of the money to X account, keep the rest as an apology.
This.Soov535 said:
Thankyou4calling said:
Soov535 said:
Sometimes payments can be reversed for a number of days. So our hero sends £1k back, and then the fraudster takes back the £2k and is £1k up.
Simple.
If that were the case surely the whole banking system would crumble. Are you saying I can make a payment to someone and then get it put back into my account? I don't think that's right.Simple.
Faster payment/BACS payments are not going to be taken back out of your account.
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