One of the girls in our office is selling her car. She's had a reply as pasted below.
I wonder if we can have some fun with this mongoose...

Vehicle Details:
MAKE: VOLKSWAGEN
MODEL: GOLF
PRICE: £1300

Message:
HELLO SELLER,
I SAW THE ADVERT OF YOUR CAR ON AUTOTRADER.CO.UK WHICH IS FOR SALE.I AM OKAY WITH THE CONDITIONS OF THE CAR AND I AM READY TO BUY FROM YOU. I AM BASED IN DUBLIN IRELAND ,BUT AT THE MOMENT AM ENGAGED IN ALOT OF THINGS TO COME FOR THE VIEWING OF THE CAR. AM OKAY WITH YOUR PRICE AND AM READY TO GIVE YOU EXTRA'S OF £50 FOR SECURING OF THE CAR SO IT WOULD NOT BE SOLD TO ANOTHER BUYER ,AND FOR YOU TO KNOW HOW COMMITED I AM IN BUYING FROM YOU .
I WILL LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT I CAN'T COME FOR THE VIEWING OF THE CAR AS EARLIER STATED CAUSE I'M VERY BUSY AT WORK RIGHT NOW, BUT WITH WHAT I SAW ON THE ADVERT I AM SATISFIED.I WILL LIKE YOU TO SEND ME SOME PICTURES OF THE PRESENT LOOK OF THE CAR.I LOVE THIS PARTICULAR MODEL.I WILL BE VERY HAPPY IF THE CAR IS MINE.
I WILL ALSO WANT YOU TO KNOW I WILL BE PAYING YOU WITH A BANKER'S DRAFT, THE AMOUNT ON THIS DRAFT WILL BE MORE THAN THE PRICE OF YOUR CAR[OVERPAYMENT].
THE EXCESS FUNDS ON THE DRAFT WILL BE FOR MY AGENT FOR PICKUP OF THE CAR AND SOME OF MY OTHER ITEMS I ALREADY BHOUGHT INSIDE AND OUTSIDE UK AM READY TO WAIT FOR THE CLEARANCE OF TEH PAYMENT BECAUSED I WAS TOLD THAT ITS WILL TAKE 3 WORKING DAYS TO CLEAR WHICH IS OAKY WITH ME.ONCE YOU HAVE FUNDS CLEARED IN TO YOUR ACCOUNT YOU WILL DEDUCT YOUR TOTAL MONEY PLUS THE EXTRA\'S FROM THE FUNDS AND WIRE THE EXCESS TO MY AGENT FOR PICKUP, SO THAT THEY CAN PROCEED WITH THE NECESSARY PAPERWORK AND ARRANGE WITH YOU A CONVINIENT DATE AND TIME FOR PICKUP.
IF THIS IS OKAY BY YOU,YOU WILL HAVE TO GET BACK TO ME WITH SOME NECESSARY INFORMATION WHICH WILL BE NEEDED FOR THIS TRANSACTION TO PROCEED.To explain things further,contact me on...ibrahim_oluwaseyi4real@yahoo.com

THE INFORMATION IS AS FOLLOW;
YOUR FULL NAME....
YOUR FULL ADDRESS WITH POSTCODE......
YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBERS BOTH OFFICE AND MOBILE/HOME NUMBERS...

N:B
THE NAME YOU GIVE WILL BE THE NAME YOU WILL SEE ON THE CHEQUE AND IT WILL BE SENT TO THE ADDRESS YOU MAIL TO ME.YOUR PHONE NUMBERIS FOR TIME TO TIME CONTACT.
ALSO IF ANY BUYER CONTACT YOU ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR CAR,PLEASE TELL THEM IT'S ALREADY BEEN SOLD CAUSE AM READY TO MAKE PAYMENT AS SOON AS I GET THOES DETAILS NEEDED FROM YOU.
I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO A HAPPY TRANSACTION.
HOPING TO READ FROM YOU SOON.

REGARDS
Shane




some good ideas for responding to our Shane then please? pics and loaf of bread spring to mind :-)

 

Ask for a bankers draft, not a cheque.

 

It already says they will pay by bankers draft. Its got to be a scam, who buys a car without seeing it and also over pays.

 

its a scam mate tell them to forget it..its better to wait

 

Also the guy signs off as " Shane " but look at the email address

 

Do you have any pics of the girl selling the car

 

Shane

why not sign it off as fergus'oconnel@fungusire.com

 

pop to ur local police station and let them sell the car for you

 

Time to sign his email up for some junk mail I think!


Get him to send the £50 deposit in cash but give him the address of a local charity (minus the charity name obviously), at least someone can gain out of it.

 

The email address even has " i4real " in it

 

As I read it I was thinking that it wasn't written by someone with English as their first language.....

 

This is the classic scam. All jokes aside, it really is a shame that you can't even sell anything these days without this kind of bullsh*t.

 

Yup, classic fraudulent banker's draft scam. The draft appears to clear and funds appear in your account. At this point you think great, and hand over your car, and the "overpayment". A couple of weeks later you will be contacted by your bank to find that the funds have gone, as fraudulent funds can always be recovered.

Only issue is that your car has gone without a trace, and they have a load of your cash with them. You have effectively paid them to take your car. Its great for them when it works, a total shocker for you.

And no, you are not entitled to any form of compensation at all, from anywhere.

 

Do they really think people fall for this type of guff

 

He's a great bloke he bought my Fiesta, his agent is picking it up Friday

 

there is some pr**ks about!

 

WHOA!!!! I had almost the same reponse (nearly the same word for word) from an advert in Gumtree.com.
i was not sure about it so i took a copy to my local C.A.B and they told me this is definatly a scam...although it a bankers draft,they cancell the funds 1 hr later....The third party involved,to collect car on thier behalf,was a shipping company that was under investigation by Trading standards......

 

not everything like this is a scam -- i got an email from a cool nigerian guy, who needed me to take care of a few million dollars and now I am minted

so you never know

remember - if it looks to good to be true -- you just might be one lucky motherfvcker

i say go for it

 

Pass it onto the thescambaiters.com

They had a great time conning thousands out of a Nigerian scammer with "Anus" Laptops

 

it is also a way of money laundering ie swapping dirty money gained through drugs and fraud through an innocent persons clean bank account. i know this may sound silly as they end up with a bit less than they put in but its worth it to them to have the clean notes and a transaction to show where the money came from if the police ever question them about it.

 

 

Its a scam, you think the cheque has cleared then about a week later it bounces.

 

I got the same reply from some1 also with the car advertised through the trader , i just ignored the bull$h!t

 

I think it's the same person from Nigeria , central America who I have regular contact with on issues as property, inhertiance ,investments overseas
infact iv just deleated his copy of passport bank details from new York etc
he now wants me to invest in a politcal party to overthrow the govt

He gets around a lot so I suggest you email him back to say you sold the car and have cash to invest !!