Beware of Scam emails:
Shown below is an example of a dubious email received by advertisers from apparent potential bogus buyers.
These e-mails can be relatively easy to spot as they are often grammatically incorrect, mention “reputable shippers” and “certified cashier cheques”. Often foreign buyers send cheques for far in excess of the asking price of the vehicle. They request the balance of the money to be sent to them to arrange a “reputable shipper” to collect the vehicle. DO NOT SEND ANY MONEY IT IS A SCAM
These cheques appear to be drawn on UK Banks but can prove to be invalid. These dubious buyers are hoping that you, the seller will send the excess balance and part with the vehicle before the cheque has been cleared. Also these cheques may appear initially to be cleared by the bank – but later the bank declares the cheque or draft to be invalid (a forgery or stolen) and wants its money back.
Example e-mail :
Regarding the payment and pickup arrangement Certified cheque will be
issued in your name include the money for the sale of your vehicle and
shipping cost. I would like to restate clearly that this item will be
shipped and I have a shipping agent who would take good care of this.Y ou
are to cash the Check you will recieve and deduct the funds for the sales of your item and please have the excess funds sent to the shipping agent in order to schedule the pick up of the item. All neccesary transfer papers will be dully signed by the shipper on behalf of my client when the shipping agents comes for the pick up of the item. I will be willing to entertain more of your questions that might arise, please provide your CONTACT NAME,ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER so that I can have it forwarded to my client for immediate payment issuance.
Never accept high offers especially from overseas buyers. Never let the vehicle go before obtaining full confirmation from the bank that the cheque or draft has been cleared.
Nearly all these “bogus buyers” are not interested in viewing or asking any questions about the vehicle for sale.
2 comments
Derek says says:
September 22, 2011 at 2:16 pm (UTC 2)
beware of scammers people emailing you wanting to buy ,saying they will put so much in your account and wanting you to pay for delivery all scams .this has happened twice to us, luckily we where wise to it,be careful.
Scammed says:
October 15, 2011 at 3:17 pm (UTC 2)
It also happened to me, they sent me a cheque valued 3 times of the price of the car, it came from Deutsche Bank in Germany, and the “buyer” was Russian… When I went to the bank to cash it Deutsche Bank could not tell me if the cheque had funds, I could only go to my bank to clear it, but they told me in case the cheque hadn’t funds I would hav to pay 200€ (the expenses for trying to clear a foreign cheque). I then informed the buyer, I said to him I would not even try to clear the cheque because of what they told me in my bank and asked him to transfer the money to my account; of course he didn’t reply anymore.