willo

willo

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Hi all,

My daughter is going to sell your MiniCooper MonteCarlo as you alreadey know, in answer to some adds she made we got the following message, to me it smells nothing but a swindle. I have serious doubts about the US companies these deays if you see what they do send overseas to represent their individual firms ??:D

This is the message she got:


Hello Seller,
My name is Patrick Bone. I am an America business man based in Ireland. I will like to purchase your for sale which you listed for sale on the posted adds. Do let me know as soon a possible if it is still available and if payment with a Cashier\'s check,Bank Draft or Money order is fine. Concerning the shipping, I have a reputable shipping company that will be coming over directly to your place for the pick up. I await your response. you can contact me here on my email address ( bone2pat_01@yahoo.com ) and get back to me with the asking price and also including your full name,full address and contact phone number on where the payment will be send to. Many thanks and God bless....
Best Regard
Patrick.......

This is what I suggested her to send back to the above individual:

Nice try.

If you’re really interested, let’s do it this way: I will send you a bank account number, you pay the amount of 10.000 Euro (which, by the way, is a bargain for such
a fine and unique car), upon receipt of the money I will send you a location and a date/time where and when the car can be picked up.

If you agree with the above just let me know and inform me when the payment is done so that the account in question can be checked and the money collected
whereafter I’ll let you know, in all honesty and in full detail about the rest of the exchange.

May God bless you too. Best regards.

And this is what she got the day after as response again:


Thanks for your swift responce and i think by transfering the money into your account will be more better for me and i also think this is the best easy way for me,so kindly get back to me with your full bank information so that the money can be transfer into your Bank account and when replying me in your nest mail i will want you to please send to me the recent picture of the car so that i can be 100% sure that it is ok.

Many thnaks onceagain and God Bless you..

Patrick

Don't know what they are going to do, just ignore all from now on or else give a bankaccount number with zip/zero on it (to be opened for this special occasion) and see what the following actions will be.

Any ideas/experiences with similar situation ???

Ciao.
 
Of course it's dodgy:eek:

The language, the evasiveness etc.

Don't give them your bank account number or any other details!!
 
sounds as ropey as **** to me will, i would just leave it for now , if he contacts you again tell him to comer with the hard cash in person pay you then drive the ****er away ;)
 
Come on Willo, you must smell a Rat, i have spoken to a Subaru driver who 18 months ago released his car to a web buyer for the full amount + an additional £1200 which the buyer put in the account by mistake :rolleyes:, now the best bit the Subaru owner shipped the car and sent back the £1200 :eek:, he took the cash out of the account and was happy, 3 months later he recieved a letter from his bank explaining they wanted the money back, the cash was stolen from an elderly couple in Florida who's accountant had spotted several transactions over a 3 month period, all the monies where recovered even though he had removed the cash from the said account, they put his account on overdraft for the £8000 he thought he had made.

He lost his car + the £1200 cash he sent to the now closed account.

DO NOT TOUCH THESE MYSTERIOUS BUYERS WHO ARE WILLING TO PAY FULL ASKING PRICE WITHOUT SEEING THE GOODS.

Zippy
 
Zippy said:
Come on Willo, you must smell a Rat, i have spoken to a Subaru driver who 18 months ago released his car to a web buyer for the full amount + an additional £1200 which the buyer put in the account by mistake :rolleyes:, now the best bit the Subaru owner shipped the car and sent back the £1200 :eek:, he took the cash out of the account and was happy, 3 months later he recieved a letter from his bank explaining they wanted the money back, the cash was stolen from an elderly couple in Florida who's accountant had spotted several transactions over a 3 month period, all the monies where recovered even though he had removed the cash from the said account, they put his account on overdraft for the £8000 he thought he had made.

He lost his car + the £1200 cash he sent to the now closed account.

DO NOT TOUCH THESE MYSTERIOUS BUYERS WHO ARE WILLING TO PAY FULL ASKING PRICE WITHOUT SEEING THE GOODS.

Zippy
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EXACTLY!

I think the golden rule with any transaction - if it sounds too good to be true - it usually is!!
 
am i being stupid here or do people really fall for these internet scams?..they seem so obvisoly fake to me. much like the niger widow with 666,666,000 quid that she wants to share with you... you have to ask yerself 'would you do, what they expect you to believe they are willing to do'
i suppect the answer would be 'no' for the simple reason no sane person would
 
thats nice - I got 6squillion quid i wanna transfer thro yo account, Snot. But first can yu send me a couple of grand to bribe the officials?
 
When I was selling the MG I had a couple of these emails. Worded very similar to that actually. One guy was interested in additional photos of my "blue MG TF". I sent 3 photos of an Audi TT in red. He liked the photos and was happy to progress the deal. Idiot! SCAM!!
Second guy I suggested he pay cash on collection. Never heard from him again.
The Autotrader web site has an article on this type of fraud:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/CARS/sell/cc/carcrimecentre.jsp

My advice, leave it well alone.
 
ers another one - variations on a theme....


Dear Friend,

I am Captain Craig Wieslaw of the US Marine Force on Monitoring and Peace –keeping mission in Baghdad-Iraq.

On the 10th day of August 2006, we were alerted on the sudden presence of some Terrorists camping in a suburb not too far from Karbala here in Iraq. After Immediate intervention, we captured three (3) of the Terrorists, twenty-six (26) were killed leaving seven (7) injured.

In the process of torture they confessed being rebels for late Ayman al-Zawahiri and took us to a cave in Karbala which served as their camp. Here we recovered several guns, bombs and other Ammunitions including some boxes among which two contains nuclear weapons, one filled with hard drugs(cocaine) and the other four to my amazement contain some US Dollars amounting to $15M after I and two of my junior intelligent officers counted them. I however instructed them to keep this in high secrecy.

I am in keen need of a "Reliable and Trustworthy" person like you who would receive, secure and protect these boxes containing the US Dollars for me up on till my assignment elapses in here in Iraq. I assure and promise to give you 20% of this fund, however feel free to negotiate what you wish to have as your percentage in this business..

Please assure me of your keeping this topmost secret to protect my job with the US Monitoring and Peace-Keeping mission.

Sincere regards,

Capt.Craig Wieslaw.
 
or else.... yu getting the idea?

Al salaam,

My name is Hafarh Bolkiah, from Brunei I am a 29 years old and a mongolian
citizen who was taken to Brunei by my father 10 years ago. He deceived me
that I was going there on vacation and later married me out to a wealthy
Prince in Brunei who is 36 years older than me.

I was thus forced into marriage and when I objected I was beaten and raped
by this Prince. I was locked up in a house for six months after which I
submitted and decided to accept my faith, knowing that was the only way out.

After I got my freedom back I have been allowed by my husband to have access
to his account and businesses. With the help of a loyal aide I have been
able to divert $16.5.000.000.00 (Sixteen million five hundred thousand
dollars)as bonds into a private finance bank without his knowledgement.
Because he do not even go to school

Right now I have mapped out a plan of escape out of Brunei, thou I have tried
escaping several times and its been fruitless. first of all I have been able
to move the money out of Brunei with help of a woman lawyer and now the woman isno more alive. This is where I need your assistance, to help
me secure the money from the finance bank before I get out of Brunei if I am
lucky enough.

If you know you are capable of handling such a huge amount of money respond
to me and I will compensate you by giving you $1.5.000.000.00 (one million
five hundred thousand dollars) of the total fund.

Note also that you must keep this business secret as my life is at stake if
my husband or any of his relatives hear of this business they will stone me
to death or hang me.

ALLAH bless you ok and i await your quick email.


Mrs. Hafarh Bolkiah.
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
or else.... yu getting the idea?

Al salaam,

My name is Hafarh Bolkiah, from Brunei I am a 29 years old and a mongolian
citizen who was taken to Brunei by my father 10 years ago. He deceived me
that I was going there on vacation and later married me out to a wealthy
Prince in Brunei who is 36 years older than me.

I was thus forced into marriage and when I objected I was beaten and raped
by this Prince. I was locked up in a house for six months after which I
submitted and decided to accept my faith, knowing that was the only way out.

After I got my freedom back I have been allowed by my husband to have access
to his account and businesses. With the help of a loyal aide I have been
able to divert $16.5.000.000.00 (Sixteen million five hundred thousand
dollars)as bonds into a private finance bank without his knowledgement.
Because he do not even go to school

Right now I have mapped out a plan of escape out of Brunei, thou I have tried
escaping several times and its been fruitless. first of all I have been able
to move the money out of Brunei with help of a woman lawyer and now the woman isno more alive. This is where I need your assistance, to help
me secure the money from the finance bank before I get out of Brunei if I am
lucky enough.

If you know you are capable of handling such a huge amount of money respond
to me and I will compensate you by giving you $1.5.000.000.00 (one million
five hundred thousand dollars) of the total fund.

Note also that you must keep this business secret as my life is at stake if
my husband or any of his relatives hear of this business they will stone me
to death or hang me.

ALLAH bless you ok and i await your quick email.


Mrs. Hafarh Bolkiah.
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Where's the e-mail address, gotta be worth a punt!!

NOT!!

These type of e-mails are flying around fleabay all day long - stay well away.
 
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