Carsales

[Angus Smart]

Mate,thanks for the response,i would have loved to call but due to bad

weather our SATphone is currently scrambled .Please am buying the car

for my wife who just gave birth to a baby boy in my absentia.She lives

in Darwin presently so the car is going to be shipped to Darwin after

have sorted out with the payment.i want to be sure if the car is

still in good condition , preferably if i can get more close up

picture (engine and interior inclusive), i will not be able to come

for inspection now all i really need from you is the exact details of

the car.

Due to the nature of my work i am a very busy man working all day,am a

sailor am presently onboard .i will pay with the fastest and safest

online payment "PayPal" so i will need you to send me your paypal

email address so i can effect the payment,as i have my ANZ bank a/c

attached to my paypal account.I will be sending my shipping company to

come and pick it up and make a personal delivery for my wife in

Darwin.

PS:In case you don't have a PayPal account,Its reliable fast,secure

and easy to use PayPal,all you need to do is to log on to visit

www.paypal.com and register

with them. When you are done with the

registration send me the email used for the registration with PayPal

so i can make the payment.

Await your response.

Cheers.

clearly not legit.. but what do they gain from knowing my paypal email?

[ClutchBurndout-:(]

can probly do a who is with an email? or try hack ur paypal account since they have ur username? next they might ask for bank details, and if they have that they can pretend to be you and pinch all ur money, never trust anyone, ever.

[Angus Smart]

But his sat phone is scrambled!!

[R31Nismoid]

Why give a scammer any info in the first place?

You wont get anywhere, so no point giving them your account

[VNS 24]

Mate,thanks for the response,i would have loved to call but due to bad

weather our SATphone is currently scrambled .Please am buying the car

for my wife who just gave birth to a baby boy in my absentia.She lives

in Darwin presently so the car is going to be shipped to Darwin after

have sorted out with the payment.i want to be sure if the car is

still in good condition , preferably if i can get more close up

picture (engine and interior inclusive), i will not be able to come

for inspection now all i really need from you is the exact details of

the car.

Due to the nature of my work i am a very busy man working all day,am a

sailor am presently onboard .i will pay with the fastest and safest

online payment "PayPal" so i will need you to send me your paypal

email address so i can effect the payment,as i have my ANZ bank a/c

attached to my paypal account.I will be sending my shipping company to

come and pick it up and make a personal delivery for my wife in

Darwin.

PS:In case you don't have a PayPal account,Its reliable fast,secure

and easy to use PayPal,all you need to do is to log on to visit

www.paypal.com and register

with them. When you are done with the

registration send me the email used for the registration with PayPal

so i can make the payment.

Await your response.

Cheers.

clearly not legit.. but what do they gain from knowing my paypal email?

If I am not wrong, that is exactly the same letter that one of the seller from SAU got a couple of months ago.

F****** sailor and his rig story.

[Sunkist]

im pretty sure i read the same scam on a supra forum.

and it was posted in wasteland.

[.:: GimpS-R34 ::.]

clearly not legit.. but what do they gain from knowing my paypal email?

What they do is ask you to send them your paypal email.. Then afterwards they will email you a fake link to "paypal" where you proceed to login but in fact sends them your login info.. BOOM.. they login to your real paypal account.. transfer money and then ride their elephant off into the distance..

[stig mick]

You will always tend to get these emails just after you update you ad

So they are just looking at the newest ads that pop up

When I sold my R33 I got atleast 6 of these.

So annoying each time u saw an enquiry email from carsales I got excited and half the tome it turned out to be one of these scammers

[Longz]

Gosh and i am about to put both my cars on carsales ..........

[stig mick]

Gumtree is worse plus you have to deal with the lowballers offering you half of your asking price

Edited April 20, 2011 by stig mick

[GTR-N1]

Gumtree is worse plus you have to deal with the lowballers offering you half of your asking price

+1.

Trading Post was like this for the past 2 decades. Now the same demographic support has shifted across to Gumtree - with their funny accents.

[GTR-N1]

Gosh and i am about to put both my cars on carsales ..........

Have you thought about asking Todd at JapLink to have your GT-R on consignment there (so long as there's no hidden gremlin)?

You can specify that no-one drives your car unless Adam (Sales Mngr) is in the passenger's seat.

Go through F/S section here too, on SAU.

[.:: GimpS-R34 ::.]

Gosh and i am about to put both my cars on carsales ..........

It's not hard.. Just ignore anyone who wants to pay by paypal.. AFAIC if they don't want to see the car in person and pay in person then they aren't legit

[PSI-FED]

My mate got the same exact thing last week trying to sell his bike. He went to the police to try report it and they said "Sorry we cant see any evidence of fraud or crime" lol morons..

[ras1983]

I pity the people who fall for these scams.

Who the hell pays for a car with Paypal anyway??? If I'm selling or buying a car, the purchase/sale will always be made in person by either cash or bank cheque.

[ras1983]

http://www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/General-Discussion/Chat/Internet-Scammers/

[Truffles]

My mate got the same exact thing last week trying to sell his bike. He went to the police to try report it and they said "Sorry we cant see any evidence of fraud or crime" lol morons..

They know it's a scam, but at that point in time they can't prove anything. It's just some anonymous person whom is most probably overseas. It's not even worth following up on.

It's the same story that has minor changes to it

1. They can't contact you other than via e-mail

2. They want to buy the car for someone else without even seeing it

3. They work some bullshit job where they can't call you/use the internet much

4. They want to pay via paypal

5. They want some random "agent" to pick it up

and they do all of the above with barely legible english.

This shit won't ever go away. As said above, if you're ignorant enough to let someone buy a car through paypal without even seeing it, then you're a moron.

Edited April 22, 2011 by Truffles

[Galois]

Got a new one just this morning, the third one for the kart (in sig).

He was really persistent, sent about 4 emails, with me replying saying cash only on pickup and this looks exactly the same as the other scam emails I got. Though he assured me he was safe and that bad people out there ruin things for the good people like us (lol).

Anyways, I saw one where they sent the seller a fake email from "paypal" saying the money was in waiting, and the seller then had to pay the shipping company, which was probably just the guys personal offshore account.

How much control do they get if they have your paypal account?

[boosted_andy]

Got a new one just this morning, the third one for the kart (in sig).

He was really persistent, sent about 4 emails, with me replying saying cash only on pickup and this looks exactly the same as the other scam emails I got. Though he assured me he was safe and that bad people out there ruin things for the good people like us (lol).

Anyways, I saw one where they sent the seller a fake email from "paypal" saying the money was in waiting, and the seller then had to pay the shipping company, which was probably just the guys personal offshore account.

How much control do they get if they have your paypal account?

they can shift funds over to the paypal account from your credit card, then shift that money into their own account... be careful...never bother replying to these...

[Galois]

Yeah the first message was not highly conspicuous, just a little suspicious in the first message. Can't believe enough people fall for this that they keep bothering. I guess people are easily fooled over the net