im selling this 390/C6, the guy emails me from the UK asking about the engine, this is his latest email. Hello Lawrence, Thanks for your reply. I am okay with the price and this is how i will want us to seal this transaction cos i dont want any delay at all. So all i am going to do is to contact my ***ociate in the USA to issue you a certified cashier's check of $6,000which will be for both the shipping and your own money $850.So all i will want you to do when you recieve the check is to deduct your own money and send the remaining shipping funds of $5,150 through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER to my International shipping agent that will come for the pick up. So if this terms are okay by you i will need your contact address and phone number so that i can forward to my ***ociate who will be issueing you the check. N/B :The shipping funds will be wired to my international agent that will come for the pickup he will be the one to arrange the pickup and shipping of the Strong running 390/C6 From your location to where i am living.Now that we have an agreement I will like you to remove the advert you placed on the website so that you will recieve no more offers.the cheque will be sent to you via fedex courier services.I will give you a call as soon as you reply info required to send cheque:. FULL NAME ........ FULL ADDRESS......... CITY............ STATECOUNTRY.......... ZIPCODE........ PHONE NUMBER........... Best Regards, Mr Fernandez I aint removing **** til get my money, This " i'll send you $6000 " whats up with that, i'll take all that cash and run L
SCAM... just delete it and block emails from the scammer, unless you want to waste time screwing with him.
Pure ripoff. I got two or three of these and they are a pure con job. Ask them to send cashiers check and verify funds are legit with your bank before shipping. Once you tell them that you will never here from them again. Don't give them any personal info either.
Just for fun, you could agree and get your hands on a great forgery! Or wait until you get the inevitable phone call via deaf phone. But seriously, run like hell the other direction. Geoff
These guys pulling this **** are ****in idiots, scam or no scam , if the money aint in my hand they aint getting ****. It ****s ................................. someone obviously has fallen for this, some s***bag is stealing from the naive L
This is a major scam and the FBI will be very interested. A friend of mine had the same scam played on him, with regard to a vehicle sale. The check that they send is bogus. The funds to cover the check will come out of your personal account. Good luck and don't cash the check. LOL!
Have fun with him. I ask for a photo of his wife or daughter, and tell him I will give him a huge discount if I can have my way with either.
its a scam but **** with him. some people have been able to turn around and rip off the scammer. theres some websites about it.
When someone wants you to rush, it's time for you to go slow. Be very careful with cashiers checks as well. Nowadays they're not worth the paper they're written on - imho and quite a few others. You can go to your bank and set up a wire transfer of the funds. That's about as safe as it's gonna get. Even if your bank says the cashiers check is ok, it still may not be. Several weeks down the road they may find out it's a counterfeit and you will be liable for the money. If it's still in the account they'll pull it out. Only other thing I'd do if selling something valuable is to meet at his bank, get cash and if necessary open a very small account, get a safe deposit box and stick the remaining cash in there. It's not a good idea to be carrying 4-5 figures of cash out of a bank. This whole deal is a cl***ic Nigerian scam.
What surprised me in the one above, is how LONG it went on! The guy (in Nigeria) must think everyone in the world is DUMMER that he is!! This is just a variation on the Nigerian SCAM! Run the other way!
I just got one from MR.MING YANG in HONGKONG about the Iraqi general who deposited $25 million and got killed in a bombing raid. So sad, no heirs. Just send us a couple thousand in processing fees and we'll send you the 25 mil of which we get 65% back and for your honesty, you keep 35%. But first, send us the couple thou. Yeah, right, like I trust an unsolicited email written in all caps.
A good answer to this to keep the door open would be to only accept the Uncle sam Green. Scammers ****
Scam!!!!! I disagree with messing with them though. You really don't know who or what you are dealing with. I think I would just delete it and go on "as if I had good senes". (A phrase my Grandmother tought me)
Scam for sure. Don't reply to his e-mail. Just ignore him. Sometimes a reply is all they want so they can get your info. and such. Been there. Had my ebay account hijacked once. Don't you read the Ebay e-mails? :]
NO,NO,NO!!!!.This is a pure scam. Cashier's checks can be counterfeit or even cancelled. The more you correspond with them the more they can access your computer system. These things usually come from Nigeria.Realistically who would ever send you more money than you asked for and trust you,who they don't know from Adam, to send them the balance?? I wouldn't even do cash-unless it was small bills and then it would have to be in my bank first-not even a wire transfer-don't let them near your bank accounts.
What would be truly funny is if this ONE guy was totally legit and had no idea what you were talking about. Alas, it is a scam. just for fun, you could go through with it and send him a 1/64 scale 390 out of a testors model kit. or pry one out of one of those"muscle machines" and send it standard post. HA! Lux
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