Car sale PayPal scam

[pistonring]

How does this scan work? I received this e-mail and here was the response:

"Hi,Do you still have it for sale? i will like to make an offer of the exactly amount you want to sell it,payment will be made through paypal and i will arrange for the pick up as well. Cheers, Andrew"

My reply:

Hiya,

Thank you, the payment terms are cash on collection only and the price is £8500.


Thanks

Keith

"Thanks for the mail, i am buying this for my son as his birthday gift because i would not be around to celebrate with him i am a petroleum engineer currently on a rig offshore in UK and due to the nature of my work,phone calls making and visiting of website are restricted but i squeezed out time to check this advert and send you an email regarding it. In case if you will want to call me to talk to me on phone you can easily call me on this number +4470240xxxxx. I really want this item to be a surprise gift for my son so i wont let him know anything about the item until it gets delivered to him , i am sure he will be more than happy with the item.I insisted on paypal because i don't have access to my bank account online as i don't have internet banking, but i can pay from my PayPal account, as i have my bank a/c attached to it, i will need you to give me your PayPal email address so i can make the payment as soon as possible for the item and pls if you don't have PayPal account yet,it is very easy to set up, go on www.paypal.com and get it set up ,after you have set it up i will only need the e-mail address you use for registration with PayPal so as to put the money through.I have a pick up agent that will come for the pick up immediately you have receive the payment in full.what is your final price including the paypal charges?."

[Magic919]

Wow, it's like busses.

[XVar]

Usually they say that they're going to send you the £8500 + shipping, and you receive a very convincing fake paypal e-mail stating that the funds have been sent but are held in escrow until the goods are received. They then ask you to send the shipping payment to the "shipper" with your own funds via western union or another shady payment form. At which point they have £500-1000 of your own money and you have a fake paypal e-mail. Scam complete.

[ferrisbueller]

The money will be paid via a paypal account. And the car will be gone as they will be some reason why the car has to be taken instantly.

You'll then get an e-mail from paypal saying the funds haven't cleared and can't be withdrawn because there's an issue with them.

You'll be left without the car and the money.

Done.

[anonymous-user]

I feel a for saying this but are you a ignore it to anyone with half a brain anything that gets into a novel is a scam. it works many ways.

Edited by Big Al. on Monday 27th August 17:35

[AJB]

XVar said:

Usually they say that they're going to send you the £8500 + shipping, and you receive a very convincing fake paypal e-mail stating that the funds have been sent but are held in escrow until the goods are received. They then ask you to send the shipping payment to the "shipper" with your own funds via western union or another shady payment form. At which point they have £500-1000 of your own money and you have a fake paypal e-mail. Scam complete.

^^^This. Either fake paypal email, or hacked paypal account transfer which paypal will take back from you. Either way they get the "shipping" amount from you. Normally they've got no interest in getting your car, etc - they're not even in the country.

[pistonring]

billybob69 said:

I feel a for saying this but are you a just ignore it to anyone with half a brain anything that gets into a novel is a scam. it works many ways.

Thanks for that reply, was it really needed?

No I am not a ? I realised it was a scam from the moment I saw the gmail account, I was just curious to how it worked.

[r11co]

How does this scam work? See above.

This guy on the oil rig must have about 500 sons...

Edited by r11co on Monday 27th August 16:47

[calibrax]

pistonring said:

I realised it was a scam from the moment I saw the gmail account, I was just curious to how it worked.

Most gmail accounts are genuine. Just because the scammers use one of the most popular email providers on the planet, there's no need to tar everyone with the same brush!

[pistonring]

calibrax said:

Most gmail accounts are genuine. Just because the scammers use one of the most popular email providers on the planet, there's no need to tar everyone with the same brush!

Sorry that didn't quite sound right, I didn't mean all gmail addresses were scammers the e-mail address was [e-mail] Looks a bit iffy for someone with the name of Andrew Smith!

[Mermaid]

pistonring said:

Sorry that didn't quite sound right, I didn't mean all gmail addresses were scammers the e-mail address was [e-mail] Looks a bit iffy for someone with the name of Andrew Smith!

Ask him about it - let's hear the interesting explanation.

[james280779]

I like to play along with these in my Lunch hour.

Last one wanted money sent to western union to Stratford.

I told him I had sent it, he came back and said nothing there. I said sorry I must have sent it to stretford, he comes back still nothing.

I tell him I will check, sorry stratford-upon-avon. At this point after obviously going there I get an abusive email. Made my week.

I figure if I can waste enough of their time, it will stop someone else getting scammed as they are too busy.

[Terminator X]

Those rig workers buy a lot of fking cars, makes you wonder why they don't just wait until their 3 or 4 weeks shore leave ...

TX.