is this serious?

[rick_VTR]

so my vtr has been on auto trader for about a week now. and a guy called dennis watson emailed me asking if its still for sale. i said yes its is bla bla blah.

then almost straight away he replied with this...

Hello ,


Thanks for the mail and sincerely i am so sorry for being so late to your response, have been out of connections and will like to purchase it out rightly,I am willing to offer you £1,050 for it and i will be paying you via my PayPal account,I will also like you to send me your PayPal details(PayPal e-mail address) so i can effect payment to you right away and make sure you get back to me so that we can arrange for pick up as i will like the item to be picked,so no shipping included as i have arrange for how is going to be pick up after the payment as been proceed.I await your reply.


Hope to know if its still in a good condition.cos i wont be able to inspect it as am busy,so i will like you to take some pictures of it and send them to me for me to see the condition.


Hope to hear from you soon.




Watson,


sorry hes so late with the reply? he replied like 2 mins after i emailed him haha.
and send him pictures? when theres pictures in the ad?

potentional scammer much?

can hardly speek english properly.

have heard about people getting messages like this but never really thought much of it haha.

[K17NEY]

It's obviously bollocks!

[Rudpud]

Why pay for a car through paypal? when he's gotta pick it up anyways.

Scam.

[badasssaxo]

Scam alert

Happened to me a while ago

Tell the guy to do one

[rick_VTR]

im just guna ignore him. as if anyone is guna give there paypal details to a randomer through email. lol.

[shell-vt]

another scam....

[CC06NBA]

i got soo many of these when i sold my 1.1, just ignore them mate. It does get annoying though!

[rick_VTR]

ive just had 3 more emails similar to this one.

fucking annoying!

[Gabbastard]

Get him to send the money, arrange for him to pick up the car and when his pleb arrives to collect the car, invite him in.

Then torture him to death.

[devilsadvocate]

If anyone has ever used Autotrader before to list a car they would have recieved several of these scam emails, can't believe they are still going on.

Autotrader is not exactly cheap and you would think they could adopt a system to block these type of emails over the years

[MikeYost]

That all seems to be in order.

[Prickle]

not sure if srs

[LeeM]

ask for cash, if he says its an associate collecting the car for him and hes out of the contry (which is exactly what he'll say) tell him to paypal the money to his associate who can bring it when he collects it.
he'll come up with a reason why his "associate" cant use paypal, so tell him you also cant use it due to being banned from holding a bank account in the uk

[timmythechef]

I had one off a guy saying he wants to buy my D&G watch for his uncles birthday present, and hes from south africa, ignored that one.

[rick_VTR]

i just had another one about the guy who works at an off shore oil rig or something and he cant get to the mainland and wants to send someone to pick the car up for his son haha.
fucking unreal.

[Ross]

419eater

[craig180]

Take his payment. Transfer money to your bank. Close paypal account. Win.

[0rang3peel]

Take his payment. Transfer money to your bank. Close paypal account. Win.

surely this doesn't work lol?

[LeeM]

paypal will reverse payment fom the account hes hacked into and then you owe paypal the money, they'll take/try to take you to court

[Stevebear]

the buyers words and language sound awkward so obviously English not his first language - avoid like the proverbial

[devilsadvocate]

It's a scam, you will get no money

I must have recieved about 7 of these over a 4 week period, all just as badly worded.

Chances are they type what they want to say in their own language and stick it through a translator, hence the reason it looks badly written

[rick_VTR]

i know its a scam, ive heard about this before.

just wanted to post up here to make others aware and have a bit of a laugh.

[tomsaxo]

Scam :n:

[sarajayne22]

I had one of these, money doesn't go into your account, and your car is taken abroad leaving you in't shit.

[Ryyy]

I've had similar experiences on EBay.

Guy emailed me saying 'I'll buy your PS3 but I'm on a HIV campaign, so can you deliver it to my son in Nigeria.'

How do these people think others will fall for it..

Why yes, I'll send my goods out without receiving payment...

[Stissy]

report him fo'sho, get them off autotrader/ebay etc

[rick_VTR]

I had one of these, money doesn't go into your account, and your car is taken abroad leaving you in't shit.



well more fool you for actualy going along with it if that happend to you.
idiot.

[Saxologist]

so my vtr has been on auto trader for about a week now. and a guy called dennis watson emailed me asking if its still for sale. i said yes its is bla bla blah.

then almost straight away he replied with this...

Hello ,


Thanks for the mail and sincerely i am so sorry for being so late to your response, have been out of connections and will like to purchase it out rightly,I am willing to offer you £1,050 for it and i will be paying you via my PayPal account,I will also like you to send me your PayPal details(PayPal e-mail address) so i can effect payment to you right away and make sure you get back to me so that we can arrange for pick up as i will like the item to be picked,so no shipping included as i have arrange for how is going to be pick up after the payment as been proceed.I await your reply.


Hope to know if its still in a good condition.cos i wont be able to inspect it as am busy,so i will like you to take some pictures of it and send them to me for me to see the condition.


Hope to hear from you soon.




Watson,


sorry hes so late with the reply? he replied like 2 mins after i emailed him haha.
and send him pictures? when theres pictures in the ad?

potentional scammer much?

can hardly speek english properly.

have heard about people getting messages like this but never really thought much of it haha.


You speak English poorly as well :)

But I had the same thing, was giving away a caravan, and they would leech information from you, for identity theft, or burgary.

True story, bro.

[rick_VTR]

You speak English poorly as well :)

But I had the same thing, was giving away a caravan, and they would leech information from you, for identity theft, or burgary.

True story, bro.


cool.....

[Karlb1]

What Gabbastard said...get them to come pick it up..invite them in to sign papers over...

Mate
Feed
Kill
Repeat

..doesnt have to be in that order...whatever you're in to really...

[Moke]

Why even make a thread on this?

Obviously a scam! :zainy:

[Stissy]

Why even make a thread on this?

Obviously a scam! :zainy:

to make people aware of it?
to have a laugh?
to provide (so far) 2 pages of reading on saxp?

all of which i've enjoyed :y:

[Moke]

to make people aware of it?
to have a laugh?
to provide (so far) 2 pages of reading on saxp?

all of which i've enjoyed :y:

I meant why did he have to ask if it was a scam lol.

Who buys a car without viewing it?!

[Stissy]

I meant why did he have to ask if it was a scam lol.

Who buys a car without viewing it?!

oh right, i get you - haha