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Am selling my S2 - 
Had one enquiry via email, have sent photos and a wordy desciption of the Tiv, with a list of what needs doing and what's been done.
The emailer has now emailed me saying they would like to pay for the car with a cashiers cheque, though they haven't seen the car in the flesh! I would of course, cash the cheque first before parting with the car! Anyone else had an experience like this? Is this for real!
Here is the email I received:
i trust that the car is as good as discribed.
i would like to make payment for it via a cert cashiers cheque which will also hold and cover for the shipping to the final destination.
if this is ok please send me an email as soon as possible so we can procceed witht he transaction.
Had one enquiry via email, have sent photos and a wordy desciption of the Tiv, with a list of what needs doing and what's been done.
The emailer has now emailed me saying they would like to pay for the car with a cashiers cheque, though they haven't seen the car in the flesh! I would of course, cash the cheque first before parting with the car! Anyone else had an experience like this? Is this for real!
Here is the email I received:
i trust that the car is as good as discribed.
i would like to make payment for it via a cert cashiers cheque which will also hold and cover for the shipping to the final destination.
if this is ok please send me an email as soon as possible so we can procceed witht he transaction.
SCAM! It's true, what they do is accidentally-but-on-purpose send you £8600 (instead of £6800, for example) and ask that you send them the difference back. I was speaking to someone last week who was conned out of a grand for a motorcycle he was flogging. And yes, everyone is right - there is a very good warning page about this same scam (if its the same one) right here on PH 
If I was Baron Billionaire and had the cash to splash, I'd do the deal and personally ship over a crate-load of rabid rotweilers to sort the cheating b**gers out!
As it goes, they dont actually accept delivery of the vehicles, its just your cash that they want, but I do enjoy devising cunning plans to counter those that try to Rob us of our hard earned dosh
I fell for the "Wanna buy a new laptop for £500 quid" street scam last year, and ended up with a laptop case full of coke (of the wet cola variety). We were actually looking forward to drinking that top dollar fizz, but the plod nicked it off me and said it was evidance
so I lost out twice. Be very careful (of the plod, who probably drank it all themselves) and especially of dodgy deals.
If I was Baron Billionaire and had the cash to splash, I'd do the deal and personally ship over a crate-load of rabid rotweilers to sort the cheating b**gers out!
As it goes, they dont actually accept delivery of the vehicles, its just your cash that they want, but I do enjoy devising cunning plans to counter those that try to Rob us of our hard earned dosh
I fell for the "Wanna buy a new laptop for £500 quid" street scam last year, and ended up with a laptop case full of coke (of the wet cola variety). We were actually looking forward to drinking that top dollar fizz, but the plod nicked it off me and said it was evidance
so I lost out twice. Be very careful (of the plod, who probably drank it all themselves) and especially of dodgy deals. UKbob said:Blimey! That really does bring a whole new meaning to the street value of Coke!
I fell for the "Wanna buy a new laptop for £500 quid" street scam last year, and ended up with a laptop case full of coke (of the wet cola variety). We were actually looking forward to drinking that top dollar fizz, but the plod nicked it off me and said it was evidance
There are a lot of these scams originating from Nigeria. They are scams and they waste your time and get your hopes up and worse still they take your money and that's all they're after.
I sold some parts and had the same thing but the fraudster wasn't particulatly clever and didn't even consistently state what my item for sale was in the e-mails. He said things like "I'm interested in it - how long had I had it" when the item I was advertising was a pair of door mirrors!
Then after a couple of days there was the bullsh*t of he was waiting for client funds and that he'd have them make the cheque out to me for £6500 and I should make a cheque out to him deducting the price of the item.
I had another who was going to give me a suit case full of money in exchange for the parts and a cheque for half of the amount that was supposed to be in the case (why on Earth would anyone in their right mind want to do that), well it was apparently to get their hands on UK currency which was difficult to get hold of in Nigeria so that they had more bargaining power with the GB pound ....yeah sure. Anyway, this one was sending someone to me to complete the deal, so I set a date and later confirmed that I'd meet him at my London address: - N-S Yard, Broadway, Victoria, London, SW1. I wonder whether he showed??
I sold some parts and had the same thing but the fraudster wasn't particulatly clever and didn't even consistently state what my item for sale was in the e-mails. He said things like "I'm interested in it - how long had I had it" when the item I was advertising was a pair of door mirrors!
Then after a couple of days there was the bullsh*t of he was waiting for client funds and that he'd have them make the cheque out to me for £6500 and I should make a cheque out to him deducting the price of the item.
I had another who was going to give me a suit case full of money in exchange for the parts and a cheque for half of the amount that was supposed to be in the case (why on Earth would anyone in their right mind want to do that), well it was apparently to get their hands on UK currency which was difficult to get hold of in Nigeria so that they had more bargaining power with the GB pound ....yeah sure. Anyway, this one was sending someone to me to complete the deal, so I set a date and later confirmed that I'd meet him at my London address: - N-S Yard, Broadway, Victoria, London, SW1. I wonder whether he showed??
kentishs2 said:
well it was apparently to get their hands on UK currency which was difficult to get hold of in Nigeria so that they had more bargaining power with the GB pound ....yeah sure.
I think that it's got a lot to with money laundering i.e. they give you 'too much' of their dirty money and you return the difference to them using your nice clean money!
Edited for typo
>> Edited by RichardR on Monday 28th June 13:41
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