Hmmmm... I think I smell a scam

[WildfireS3]

EC1A 9NB

HELLO,
I SAW YOUR ADVERT ON AUTO TRADER WEBSITE AND I 'AM
GENUINELY INTERESTED IN
BUYING YOUR CAR
SO I WILL REALLY APPRECIATE IF YOU GET BACK TO ME
WITH THE PRESENT
CONDITION OF THE CAR ,INCLUDING THE PRICE AND I WILL
ALSO WANT YOU TO BE AWARE THAT I WILL BE
PAYING YOU WITH A STERLING BANKER'S DRAFT.
I'M IN EUROPE FOR NOW , BUT NOT TO GET BOTHERED ABOUT
THE SHIPMENT BECAUSE I HAVE A SHIPPING COMPANY THAT
WILL HANDLE THAT.
I'VE SEEN THE PICTURE AND ITS VERY OKAY WITH ME.
I WILL REALLY APPRECIATE IF YOU GET BACK TO ME AS SOON
AS POSSIBLE.
YOU CAN ALSO CONTACT ME THROUGH THIS NUMBER
*********
WAITING TO READ FROM YOU.
REGARDS
pastor ken doherty.

n:b
please to make the transaction faster and
easier,please i will want you to get back to me with
your name and address including your phone number and
the last price of the car ,so that i can give the
company your name to issue the check for you.
because they are owing some huge amount of money



They did leave a phone number tough.

[Podie]

Gimmie an "S"…
Gimmie a "C"...

[s1.5f]

WildfireS3 said:

pastor ken doherty.

[gifdy]

There is a brilliant website somewhere where a guy responds to these scam emails and winds them up something rotten. The email exchanges are hilarious. Now where did I see it ? Anyone ?

[KentishS2]

Chris, don't go there, it's a scam.

They give you a stolen cheque for more than the value of your car supposedly written by the company owing them money and you pay them the difference and give them your car to late discover the cheque is stolen. Yet earlier in the message they say they'll pay be sterling bankers draft.

The latter would be OK but you must always wait for a bankers draft to clear into your account (contrary to popular belief they're aren't instant), only a transfer is instant.

My guess is even a draft if that transpired would also be a forgery. I've had several of these messages over the past couple of years and they are all the same old story and justifying why they'd give you a cheque from a third party looking for you to give them back a cheque for the difference.

One things for sure, they're not interested in your car. To them it may as well be a tin of beans!

Post a message in General Gassing with the title "Warning - Scammer (and their e-mail address)" and paste in teh message as you have here.

[UKBoB]

Podie said:

Gimmie an "S"… Gimmie a "C"...

Gifdy, you seek The Ebola Monkey Man

[SotonS2]

gifdy said:

There is a brilliant website somewhere where a guy responds to these scam emails and winds them up something rotten. The email exchanges are hilarious. Now where did I see it ? Anyone ?

www.ebolamonkeyman.com www.419eater.com - there's quite a few

[KentishS2]

I kept one on the hook for a while and eventually negotiated that I'd only sell to the purchaser face to face and he said he'd send an agent and I arranged a time and .......gave the postal address of New Scotland Yard

NS Yard, Broadway, London SW1H OBG (Tel. [phone])

>> Edited by KentishS2 on Tuesday 15th March 10:01

[Hoover33]

I got one as well.....

But mines different


Good day,
my name is mr smith cole a house building contractor
originated from london in plumstead london,burrage road london.but right
now am in nigerian for an estate building construction own by the former
president of nigerian (Gen) Ibrahim Babaginda.according to what i
learnt from your email respond it's like i'm interesting in buying your car
because the former president of nigerian daughter Aminat is celebrating
her 19yrs birthday ceremony coming up on August 26,2005.so i will be
grateful if you can sell the car for me as a gift for her as a
surprise.i am very happy to do business with you and purchacing your cars from
you .But i want you to explain to me the price and how am going to pay
to you ,may by cheque or by money order.

Kind Regards,
smith cole.

I just replied I was only on sale in the UK

[KentishS2]

Hi Steve,

Smith Cole is a good English name and his written English is very convincing

>> Edited by KentishS2 on Tuesday 15th March 13:36

[Hoover33]

I was actually wondering how the S would cope with their un metaled roads .....

I have bottomed on dodgy B roads over here

[woody]

I had about 3 of these when I advertised my S3.
Although if spotted they can be good fun to read, but it also makes you a bit nervous when you have a genuine interest email with crap spelling and grammar.

Chris

[PetrolTed]

Smith Cole has been at it for yonks now. I've got a virtual bin full of hundreds of his attempts to email people

[ukBOB]

PetrolTed said:

Smith Cole has been at it for yonks now. I've got a virtual bin full of hundreds of his attempts to email people

Same guy eh, surely he'd be behind bamboo poles back in Zim by now? IIRC you sent me all 100 of his almost identical poorly crafted emails once

[Pies]

I aint got any scam mail













but then im no selling