Scams when selling items
Aug 5th 2004, 6:59 am
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Scams when selling items
Anyone tried to sell their motor vehicle or other on the internet/paper and had an offer from someone overseas offering to pay full asking price, never seen the thing and will send a cheque? They have the shipping agent lined up etc.
Am not going to fall for it but am sure I read a post on here recently and wondered if anyone else had had this experience?
Am not going to fall for it but am sure I read a post on here recently and wondered if anyone else had had this experience?
Aug 5th 2004, 7:07 am
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Re: Scams when selling items
Originally posted by melaniee
Am not going to fall for it but am sure I read a post on here recently and wondered if anyone else had had this experience?
Am not going to fall for it but am sure I read a post on here recently and wondered if anyone else had had this experience?
No but I am intrigued. What's so special about the car that someone will pay to ship it? Anyway, stick themoney in your acoount before sending it I would say.
Aug 5th 2004, 7:09 am
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nothing but often they say, here's an extra amount, please pay my shipping company, cheque clears, you send off the vehicle and then the bank goes, ah it is a fraud and takes the money back-its on the Met police website-very dodgy!
Originally posted by jayr
No but I am intrigued. What's so special about the car that someone will pay to ship it? Anyway, stick themoney in your acoount before sending it I would say.
No but I am intrigued. What's so special about the car that someone will pay to ship it? Anyway, stick themoney in your acoount before sending it I would say.
Aug 5th 2004, 7:11 am
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Re: Scams when selling items
Intrigued too. Must be a nice motor. Could you request a bankers draft??
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Aug 5th 2004, 7:17 am
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Re: Scams when selling items
Originally posted by melaniee
nothing but often they say, here's an extra amount, please pay my shipping company, cheque clears, you send off the vehicle and then the bank goes, ah it is a fraud and takes the money back-its on the Met police website-very dodgy!
nothing but often they say, here's an extra amount, please pay my shipping company, cheque clears, you send off the vehicle and then the bank goes, ah it is a fraud and takes the money back-its on the Met police website-very dodgy!
Just went and read it up. Very clever.
Aug 5th 2004, 7:20 am
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We advertised our horse for sale and had several replies from fraudsters.
Check these sites (there are others but this will give a flavour of the sort of gits that are out there!
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/best/....php?aid=34437
http://www.quatloos.com
http://forums.vmag.com/RVAClass4Sale/messages/250.html
Only release goods once you have cleared funds in your possession - beware of forged Bankers Drafts etc.
Check these sites (there are others but this will give a flavour of the sort of gits that are out there!
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/best/....php?aid=34437
http://www.quatloos.com
http://forums.vmag.com/RVAClass4Sale/messages/250.html
Only release goods once you have cleared funds in your possession - beware of forged Bankers Drafts etc.
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Aug 5th 2004, 7:29 am
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Re: Scams when selling items
Originally posted by melaniee
Anyone tried to sell their motor vehicle or other on the internet/paper and had an offer from someone overseas offering to pay full asking price, never seen the thing and will send a cheque? They have the shipping agent lined up etc.
Am not going to fall for it but am sure I read a post on here recently and wondered if anyone else had had this experience?
Anyone tried to sell their motor vehicle or other on the internet/paper and had an offer from someone overseas offering to pay full asking price, never seen the thing and will send a cheque? They have the shipping agent lined up etc.
Am not going to fall for it but am sure I read a post on here recently and wondered if anyone else had had this experience?
I had the same thing with my wedding dress the cheque was fake though looked original and it came by courier. It bounced and the bank froze my bank account.
I had not sold my dress and I am still getting requests to buy my dress with this scam. It is somewhere on the african continent forget where.
I think scotland yard are aware of it as I sent details of my mishap at the time.
I should've known at the time it was a scam but I was more bothered about selling my dress.
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Aug 5th 2004, 7:45 am
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Re: Scams when selling items
Originally posted by melaniee
Anyone tried to sell their motor vehicle or other on the internet/paper and had an offer from someone overseas offering to pay full asking price, never seen the thing and will send a cheque? They have the shipping agent lined up etc.
Am not going to fall for it but am sure I read a post on here recently and wondered if anyone else had had this experience?
Anyone tried to sell their motor vehicle or other on the internet/paper and had an offer from someone overseas offering to pay full asking price, never seen the thing and will send a cheque? They have the shipping agent lined up etc.
Am not going to fall for it but am sure I read a post on here recently and wondered if anyone else had had this experience?
OMG! YES!!! My friend just sold her Freelander, but before she sold it, some guy phoned her up and said he had an overseas buyer who wanted it, she was selling it for £7k...bizzarely he told her he would send her a cheque for £15k to cover the shipping (???!!
)..anyway, said cheque bounced and when she called him to tell him this he just said 'Ill tell my client' and hung up. SHe never did hear from him again. This happened last week.Lucy
Aug 5th 2004, 8:49 am
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Osama wants to buy your car. :scared:
Aug 5th 2004, 9:31 am
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There was someone who had the same scam attempted on them - heres the post
In recent years (at least in UK) regulations on money laundering have got tighter (noticed all the extra checks banks require for opening a bank account). Even when a cheque has 'cleared' into your account the bank can take back the moey if it laters turns out to be fraud/stolen.
When it is too good to be true, it often is.
In recent years (at least in UK) regulations on money laundering have got tighter (noticed all the extra checks banks require for opening a bank account). Even when a cheque has 'cleared' into your account the bank can take back the moey if it laters turns out to be fraud/stolen.
When it is too good to be true, it often is.
Aug 5th 2004, 12:03 pm
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Bloody hell,
Just when you think that things can't get any worse, someone out there thinks of something more nasty to do.
What a horrible world we live in.
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Just when you think that things can't get any worse, someone out there thinks of something more nasty to do.
What a horrible world we live in.
Whisky
Aug 6th 2004, 12:45 am
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Yeah, think we will stay well clear of this one!
Warning to us all huh?
Warning to us all huh?
