Shortly after I posted the Supra for sale on AutoTrader, I got the email below. Wow, it was quick so I was very surprise.
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-----Original Message-----
From: david walters [mailto:emailremoved@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:05 AM
To: Email removed
Subject: Re: Fwd: Owner : AutoTrader.com: Vehicle Lead
Dear,
I spoken with my client, I am delighted to tell you that he has recommended your vehicle and has instructed me to carry on with this transaction, he also instructed me to inform you that payment will get to you in a cashier check of $23000, which is a refund payment of a cancelled order earlier made by my client.
Due to company policy this check has to be made out in this amount to you ,because company policy only allows a refund payment on one cashier cheque. So you are required to deduct the cost of your vehicle ($16000) when payment gets to you and refund $7000 balance to the shipper for him to be able to offset shipping and other tax charges.
After payment has reached you and balance sent to shipper, the shipper's agent will come for inspection, pick up (of vehicle & signing of title papers) and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped to my customer. Confirm this and forward your Name, Address and Phone nu mber for payment to be made to you as soon as possible.
David Walters
NOTE:This deal can be cancelled if by the time of pick and vehicle is found to deviate from the condition you notified on the ad.
Some of you may or may not have seen this email before. But basically the guy above is trying to scam $7000 out of me. And here is how it works. The car listed for sale at $16,000. However, he wants to send you a $23,000 check and you just refund back the $7000. The cashier check that he's sending is definitely going to be fake. By the time your bank notify you that it is a fake check, your $7000 refund would be long gone already. As you can see, it takes a little bit of greed and stupidity to fall for this type of scam.
It must be his lucky day because he got the wrong person to scam, me. LOL.....hahahaha.....What I'm going to do is to try and make it as costly to him as possible. I will make him FedEx the payment OVERNIGHT to me, and won't take anything less than overnight. (It ain't cheap overnighting stuff via FedEx). After that, I will tell him FedEx delivers to the wrong address and have him re-do it all over again. Let's see how much money I can make this sucker spend with FedEx!!!! hahahahaha. See my return email below.
-----Original Message-----
From: My email address removed
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:05 AM
To: david walters [mailto:emailremoved@yahoo.com]
Subject: Re: Fwd: Owner : AutoTrader.com: Vehicle Lead
Hi David,
That is definitely great news!!! However, I would like to let you know that I have two local buyers wanting to purchase the car and pay for it right away. But to be fair, you contacted me first so I will give you the first opportunity. If you are not serious about buying the car, please let me know now. That way we won't waste each other valueable time.
And if you are serious about purchasing my car, I must receive your payment check as you've mentioned below - IMMEDIATELY. I will have the $7000 refunded back as soon I get the cashier check. That's not a problem at all. However, you must have it FedEx OVERNIGHT to my address below and email me the tracking number. I do not have time to wait for days, so the payment must be FedEx Overnight IMMEDIATELY. If I don't get a FedEx overnight tracking number soon, then the deal is off and I will sell the car to the local buyer.
Tuan Le
Fake Address Goes Here
Houston, Texas 77042
Please make sure your client take good care of the car afterward, I would greatly appreciated. :-) Let me know if you have any questions. May you and your family have a wonderful holiday season.
I just saw something on TV the other night about some poor teenaged girl in Ontario who fell for a scam like this. Someone did this with her Saturn, she needed to sell it for money for college. She ended up sending the guy $13,000! And the cops said there was virtually no way to track the scammer down too.
One of my co-worker's young sons was selling a paintball gun online and was contacted by a scammer similar to this (albeit for much less $$). He wanted to buy the gun for ~ $180, but sent a cashier's check for something like $2000. The guy was supposedly overseas and had a contact in Utah to whom the refund was to be sent. They immediately recognized it as a scam and got the police involved. Of course, the check was a fake and was apparently well done too.
I just saw something on TV the other night about some poor teenaged girl in Ontario who fell for a scam like this. Someone did this with her Saturn, she needed to sell it for money for college. She ended up sending the guy $13,000! And the cops said there was virtually no way to track the scammer down too.
That wasn't very polite, eh?
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What if he sends you real money... now you've done it!!!
No way this guy is sending real money. If he is then the deal is legit and the car is sold. This guy is looking to SKAMYA.
"Overnight FedEx, damn it costs that much??? Oh well small price to pay to take this suckers money, hehe." -scamming ricer who wants to do his stickers, body kit, fart can, and wing all at the same time! What a dirt sack.
I've been hit up by this twice already through ebay. One guy wanted to ship a Viking refrigerator to Africa and the other a smaller refrigerator to Dublin. Both emails I got were from different people but it was almost verbatim. None the less I told them fine send the check but there is no way the piece is leaving my store until the check clears. Would you believe it I never heard back.
If there is one thing i've learned from selling on ebay there is a sh!tload of scammers out there! Everytime I list something it is constant.
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awsome, i hope you nail it to his ass. i hate people like that.
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