I thought it could be a scam

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So we were selling our 150 series Prado a couple of weeks ago and along came a single text message saying “I am interested in buying your Prado, please tell me your minimum price. If I am happy I will send someone to inspect as I am in Melbourne”
I tell this guy $30k and he sends around a guy at 8pm that night.
This Kenyan guy says he wants to photograph the car and doesn’t even want to test drive it.
As he leaves he tells me if his boss likes what he sees I will be contacted again.
An hour later the Melbourne guy calls and says “okay, give me your bank account details so I can make the payment”
20 minutes later he texts a deposit proof and I tell him I am waiting till the money appears in my account before letting the car go.
The next day money appears and I call him. He sends the same guy that night and off goes the car.
If anything seemed like a scam I reckon that was looking pretty high up there.
They gave me a link to their website and they have been sending luxury cars to Kenya from Australia for 7 years.
End of story. Wow.

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Reply By: RMD - Sunday, Oct 01, 2017 at 19:57

Sunday, Oct 01, 2017 at 19:57

Is the money still in the account? Might pay to move it to another account for a while. Permanently.

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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Sunday, Oct 01, 2017 at 20:23

Sunday, Oct 01, 2017 at 20:23

Hi RMD

That has been mentioned here some time ago by another member selling his car.

The moment that the money came through, he transferred it into another account that could not be accessed the the buyer.

The seller had heard similar stories of the money coming into peoples accounts a day before the item is collected, either caravan, boat, car etc.

Along comes someone to collect the item, and the moment the the item is out of the street, the buyer then takes the money out of the so called sellers account.

Good luck and hope the money is still there.

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Stephen

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Follow Up By: Les - PK Ranger - Monday, Oct 02, 2017 at 08:23

Monday, Oct 02, 2017 at 08:23

Indeed money transferred into a ban account can be reversed somehow by the sender, don’t know how, maybe they call their bank and say the number used was wrong and can payment be retracted.
You’d think a transfer received would be safe as cash, but have heard of a few such issues by scammers in the past, even happened to a relative.
Sounds like the OP addressed this and withdrew dollars into other accounts.

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Follow Up By: William P - Monday, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:39

Monday, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:39

I am with ME Bank and they say money can only be taken out out of your account with your approval.

I had an EFT transfer into my account that was a mistake and I contacted the bank asking when they would take the money back out. They said that they cannot touch the money when it was in the account without my approval. They contacted me a couple of days later once the owner of the money realised their mistake and I gave approval and back it went.

If I had said no the owner of the money would have to instigate legal action to recover it.

It is different if the bank makes the mistake though - there one minute - gone the next.