Selling a car

[Hollowpockets]

Not sure where to post this so thought id try here. Does this sound like a scam to you guys? Car advertised on autotrader.

The email...

Hi there, Thank you for getting back to me.Can you assure me that it's in good state and that i will not be disappointed with it.I'm ready to pay your asking price and to be honest, i wanted to buy this for someone very close to me, but the issue is i am an oceanographer and i do have a contract to go for which starts tomorrow and am leaving any moment from now.The contract is strictly no call due to the lack of reception on the sea area. But I'm able to access email anytime as we will make use of laptop so my only quickest payment option is PayPal as i can send money via PayPal anytime.Since I'm requesting this transaction to be done via PayPal, i will be responsible for all the paypal fee/charges on this transaction and if you don't have an account with paypal its pretty easy, safe and secured to open one.Just log on to www.paypal.com. I hope we can make the purchase as fast as possible? I have a mover that will come for it once payment clears and they will get it to my son's location safely,So i look forward to hear from you soon.

Thanks

Graham

[Luke.]

So scammy it hurts. How can you even be asking?

[BFG TERRANO]

Don't touch it. Scam, you will hand over the motor then the money taken back from pay pal. I had exact email regarding a phone for sale.

[frosted]

Let him send the money and give him a wrong address

[Hollowpockets]

Luke. said:

So scammy it hurts. How can you even be asking?

Was fairly sure but just wanted confirmation. I'm not a big PayPal user and wasn't sure how it works with that sort of transfer. Thanks for that.

Graham

[Tonberry]

Create a Paypal account purely for the transaction. Receive the money, withdraw it to an account and arrange for him to pick the car up.

Once the money is in your bank account, Paypal cannot take it out again.

[bigandclever]

Here's your clue... "oceanographer"

[750turbo]

Hollowpockets said:

Not sure where to post this so thought id try here. Does this sound like a scam to you guys? Car advertised on autotrader.

The email...

Hi there, Thank you for getting back to me.Can you assure me that it's in good state and that i will not be disappointed with it.I'm ready to pay your asking price and to be honest, i wanted to buy this for someone very close to me, but the issue is i am an oceanographer and i do have a contract to go for which starts tomorrow and am leaving any moment from now.The contract is strictly no call due to the lack of reception on the sea area. But I'm able to access email anytime as we will make use of laptop so my only quickest payment option is PayPal as i can send money via PayPal anytime.Since I'm requesting this transaction to be done via PayPal, i will be responsible for all the paypal fee/charges on this transaction and if you don't have an account with paypal its pretty easy, safe and secured to open one.Just log on to www.paypal.com. I hope we can make the purchase as fast as possible? I have a mover that will come for it once payment clears and they will get it to my son's location safely,So i look forward to hear from you soon.

Thanks

Graham

Looks OK to me...

ffs

[S10GTA]

Every fking day...

[daemon]

Tonberry said:

Create a Paypal account purely for the transaction. Receive the money, withdraw it to an account and arrange for him to pick the car up.

Once the money is in your bank account, Paypal cannot take it out again.

What bemuses me is so many people go 'oh oh its a scam' and clearly dont know how it works.

You dont EVER get the money.

You simply get a badly worded email from 'paypal' saying they are holding the funds for you until you tell them the transaction is complete.

[rallycross]

how do you cope in life if you have to ask if this is a scam?

[redstu]

S10GTA said:

Every fking day...

Needs a new section to save everyones time and effort.

[Major Fallout]

Its interesting if you google "Can you assure me that it's in good state and that i will not be disappointed with it." .

[Tonberry]

daemon said:

What bemuses me is so many people go 'oh oh its a scam' and clearly dont know how it works.

You dont EVER get the money.

You simply get a badly worded email from 'paypal' saying they are holding the funds for you until you tell them the transaction is complete.

Surely there is nothing to lose then. You'll know the email isn't from Paypal and just ignore them.

Surely it would make more sense for them to send you the money and then just raise a claim on the transaction at a later date, effectively leaving you out of pocket.

[veevee]

daemon said:

What bemuses me is so many people go 'oh oh its a scam' and clearly dont know how it works.

You dont EVER get the money.

You simply get a badly worded email from 'paypal' saying they are holding the funds for you until you tell them the transaction is complete.

This.

[Morningside]

Why not just pay you when he picks the car up? IF he is "at sea" then just send £100 holding fee until collection (IF legit).
50p he sends you a paypal link so that when you go to log on it will steal all you account details or it will be some fake ESCROW system.