send me your paypal details!!!! please read!!!!

[calum69]

I advertised my nice shiny CSL on here yesterday, and almost immediately i received an email from someone claiming to be interested.
The snag was they were on a navy vessel in the middle of the sea, so couldn't ring me, couldn't see the car, but wanted to send me the money and have someone else pick it up.
All i had to do was give them some account details and password.......
its a pretty lame attempt at fraud, but thought i'd post this to make people aware that this could happen to you!!
Just don't give any details out, if it sounds to good to be true!! It is!!

[alcovrugbyfan]

scam!!

[DannyVTS]

Lol wut ?

Shirley you can't be serious ?

[iva cosworth]

Why are these scammers ALWAYS at sea or offshore ?

Is there no imagination anymore ?

[trickywoo]

OP have you just visited us from a galaxy far far away?

[Tuvra]

So is the car now sold?

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

There are still people who will fall for this.

[aruck]

I had an extremely similar email last week for an registration Ive got advertised on here. Ignored it.

Impressed however that I got an email from PH the next day warning me about the email.

[Mustardo]

I dunno i wouldn't warn others about this. If you're that stupid - or desperate - you deserve to be scammed. They've got to learn some how, why not the hard way?

[deveng]

calum69 said:

I advertised my nice shiny CSL on here yesterday, and almost immediately i received an email from someone claiming to be interested.
The snag was they were on a navy vessel in the middle of the sea, so couldn't ring me, couldn't see the car, but wanted to send me the money and have someone else pick it up.
All i had to do was give them some account details and password.......
its a pretty lame attempt at fraud, but thought i'd post this to make people aware that this could happen to you!!
Just don't give any details out, if it sounds to good to be true!! It is!!

I used to get two or three of these a day when I was selling my car. The other good one was that it was a present for their wife so I couldn't contact them otherwise it would raise suspicion.

[vectracarld]

I had the exact email last week on a punto I put on here he said he was a navy seal at sea and wanted my pay pal details and would send a agent to pick it up.I just ignored it you can tell its a scam .

[Motown Junk]

vectracarld said:

I had the exact email last week on a punto I put on here he said he was a navy seal at sea and wanted my pay pal details and would send a agent to pick it up.I just ignored it you can tell its a scam .

Really? I thought a Punto would be the ideal car for a Navy Seal...

[Dift]

Motown Junk said:

Really? I thought a Punto would be the ideal car for a Navy Seal...

Surely they would be happier with a Morris Marina?

[LeoSayer]

Mustardo said:

I dunno i wouldn't warn others about this. If you're that stupid - or desperate - you deserve to be scammed. They've got to learn some how, why not the hard way?

bks

[Waynester]

Dift said:

Surely they would be happier with a Morris Marina?

[theturbs]

Have received this mail in a number of different guises:

- Surprise for brother, wife or father
- Oceanographer, Petro-chemical engineer, Navy, etc.

As if someone with access to email, online advertisements and PayPal doesn't have access to/can't set up internet banking...

[XDA]

calum69 said:

I advertised my nice shiny CSL on here yesterday, and almost immediately i received an email from someone claiming to be interested.
The snag was they were on a navy vessel in the middle of the sea, so couldn't ring me, couldn't see the car, but wanted to send me the money and have someone else pick it up.
All i had to do was give them some account details and password.......
its a pretty lame attempt at fraud, but thought i'd post this to make people aware that this could happen to you!!
Just don't give any details out, if it sounds to good to be true!! It is!!

Do scammers really think people are that stupid?

They have access to the internet but not to a phone line...

[jimbobsimmonds]

I had a very obvious scammer asking for my paypal details but only the e-mail address, no password...

Was trying to figure out how he could scam me this way. But safe to say I didn't go with it and promptly sent him an e-mail to Foxtrot Oscar...

Edit: fking autocorrect!

Edited by jimbobsimmonds on Thursday 24th February 13:23

[Mustardo]

LeoSayer said:

Mustardo said:

I dunno i wouldn't warn others about this. If you're that stupid - or desperate - you deserve to be scammed. They've got to learn some how, why not the hard way?

bks

Ok then, ship me your car over and i'll send you a cheque from my Nigerian bank account and then i'll get my brothers uncle to.....

[Mr Roper]

You can't see how obvious the obvious scam is???

Hi I'm currently orbiting the Earth trawling the classifieds...

Just pulling your leg fella