Is this a scam???

[jimmy p]

Ive had same e mail too from mr richards twice with no contact details, i responded asking for a contact number and heard nothing since, so yes scam!!

[turk1]

If it was me i would not reply to emails unless i never had my phone number in the add, if someone wants to buy your car they should phone you not leave an email asking you to contact them.

[pitzzapia]

Hi All,

I just got the same message through 'I am interested in your Porsche Boxster 987 [05-12]. Please can you contact me to discuss further?'. The email was from '[e-mail]' (couldn't even spell Porsche properly!!). I googled the address and found nothing, as well as checking out the domain name. I thought best check with the Pistonheads forums and sure enough, same thing. Hope you guys get your cars sold!

Cheers,

P

[LoonyHoons]

I had exactly the same these past few days. One from [e-mail] and two from [e-mail].

I have ignored them. Still annoying though.

[dont tell him pike]

Hi all, just to add - I have received emails for Adamporche and also Mr Thompson and Mr Richards (same emails as already mentioned). I agree with other members and have not replied to either.
I have also been offered a flat in Middlesbrough as a p/x...which is 'different'

[mic]

I've had emails from both johnmrichards and greg44 in reply to my BMW 1M ad.

[markcsl]

Had the same emails

[e-mail]

[e-mail]

Again 1M add

[Jim-3zm7y]

I also had a similar email from [e-mail] with a supposed URL to my advert. He said that the avert was showing my car as sold which was not. There were no questions about the car which made me suspicious in the beginning. If you want to check it out without loading the page to the link here is what you can do.

If you hover over the URL, don't click it, and find its linked to tinyurl.com, not pistonheads then copy the TinyURL link and paste it into your browsers address bar then edit the URL to add the word 'preview' after the two backslashes i.e //tinyurl.com/...... becomes //preview.tinyurl.com/......you can then press enter and you will be given a preview of the link and you will see the full URL used for the TinyURL link. You can then do the same with full URL and preview the suspect link, if you think its a scam then report it to phishing.com

In my case the full link was to some site in Brazil but the GFI web monitor prevented even the preview being show.

TinyURL is a legitimate site used for shortening long URL's that you want include in a text message or email etc.

[splatt]

I have had the same. Emails from [e-mail] who turned into [e-mail]. Claims to be a cash buyer on a business trip returning Monday. Says he saw the car was showing as sold on piston heads. All big scam. Not sure what they have gained by all this apart from wasting peoples time.