Scams

Yeah we had somebody contact us when trying to sell a car, with the same sort of thing, except that they were buying from China and wanted it shipped there.
My nephew just recently had a similar one.

There are lots of these scams around and you did well to spot it.Well done on leading them on too, I must admit to doing the same once. I asked them to send me a money order first that confirmed their address and account details and that was the last I heard of them. I dont think a money order will do this anyways but it was enough.

Yes Lachie it’s a common scam and has been mentioned on the forum a couple of times previously. The same type of scam was tried on my brother selling his camper trailer. Payment via paypal. Got an official looking transaction receipt and all. The people contacted him and said his dad had made the payment for him and had foolishly paid $1500 too much, could my brother please refund it. Bro smelt a rat and said, “certainly as soon as the money has cleared into my account, I’ll refund it”. End of story....no money of course. A well set up scam. You have to be so careful these days particularly on the net. Scammers abound and even on these forums people can build a character or personality that bears little or no resemblance to the truth.

Cheers, Mick

You need to be alert if you are buying as well.

We are looking for a Golden Retriever pup and answered an online 'For Sale' ad which said the litter was in Rockingham, not very far from us. We replied expressing interest in visiting to view the pups.

Here is a copy of their reply.....

Hi

Thank you very much for the reply, unfortunately I am presently
located in (Perth), where I came for a medical research
project with my husband, which is going to take us 7months. We are
very busy and we do not have enough time to be with the puppies and
secondly our apartment does not allow us to keep pets so we have no
option than to give them out. I am looking forward to adopting my
puppies because I believe they are more important than money if you
know what I mean.. The value I place on them is as big as any human
and I treat them as such.. KELLY is11 weeks two days old , WILLY 15 weeks So if
you are still interested in the puppies, I can only arrange for them
to be shipped to you and you will take care of just the shipping cost
which will be450AUD or one and 800AUD for both of them including cost of
puppy, all papers. The paper will include change of ownership document
from my names to your names, kc registration papers and all vet
documents necessary.. So if you are ready and serious to get them, you
should send to me your
Full names:::::::::::::::
Home address::::::::::::::::
City::::::::::
Post code:::::
Phone number::::::::::::and
nearest airport to your home::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::::::;

These information will be used to register the puppies and also for
the change of ownership documents. So let me know as soon as possible
if you want them shipped to you so that I can stop all others from
contacting me. Thank you for replying back and hope to read from you
shortly.once i have all the details i shall then book for the delivery
and once i am done with that the agency are going to contact you on
how to make the payment to them upfront and also how the delivery will
be done at your home, the agency will email you the delivery details
and also give you a call in regard of the shipping.
Waiting

A litter of pups...one is 11 weeks old, another is 15 weeks...what th'?

Needless to say we took this no further.

PS. we have now located a breeder in SA whose dam is having pups in late April. Our name is on one of her boys.

Cheers Neil

What is the odds? About 6 to 1 of responses from scammers to responses from genuine people ANYWHERE you advertise anything these days?

Lachie, this type of scam has been going on for in excess of ten years and is becoming more popular with automated replies to advertisements.

Motherhen

"Anyway he said the money's been put in my account plus $850 extra."

He has your Paypal account details??? Of course his Paypal is not real, just a clever fake copy.

Mh

I'm going to advertise the mother-in-law. If someone offers 'over the odds'... I'll know it's a scam! :)

New one I have had twice in the last week is from Bigpond re account payment, all looks good as Telstra reply code is accounts@telstra.online.com.au.

Online being the word that should not be there.
Cheers
Charlie

just have a look in the classifieds section in the sydney telegraph and you will see the same type of advert for cars, vans, boats etc. all worded the same and all have extremely cheap price. they are obvious to me but what i want to know is why they are not so obvious to the newspaper. if they are done online, surely they have a quality assurance program to vet these things. if i can spot them easily then why cant they and in doing so the paper will save some poor sole his hard earned because he was too trusting of these SOBs

I just got this today, emailed to my mobile phone.

Thanks mate,
I really appreciate your getting back so soon,I sent a text to you as we are put of cell phone range but have sms enabled internet services,I am away at sea at the moment, on the west alliance submersible to be precise,I would have loved to come and view these personally but I wont be back on land till June. how much will you sell your trailer and the car and please can you email a few pics of the trailer?

I am buying this for my brother as a surprise gift,he will love these so so much,I want these delivered asap, but I have already talked to a freighting company that will handle the pick up and delivery to my brother as well.I will need you to email more pics to me.

As regards the payment, I will only be able to pay through paypal and this is due to to the fact that paypal is the easiest means for me to pay as I do not have access to my bank account through the internet as I need to get some info confirmed at the bank before they can activate it for me, but I have it attached to my paypal account, if you have a paypal acc, all I will need will be your paypal email address and if not, it is very easy to set up at www.paypal.com.au, I will be expecting your reply.



I'm not selling a trailer...

& yes, I still lurk from time to time. Louie

You don't even have to advertise to be part of a scam,

We breed Aust Cattle Dogs in the USA and about half of our pups are sold to Europe where our breeding kennel is well known as we have several search and rescue dogs.

Recently we got a request for a pup for potential search and rescue, and this scammer was good and had thoroughly researched us and the breed. Went back and forward with emails and all looked legit, said they would send the money via paypal including the money for airfreight and documentation.

They said the $ had been sent including an extra $2,000 for the air freight, then got an email saying that a friend was in Los Angeles and would pick up the dog and could we refund the $2,000.

So be careful even if you don't advertise.

Bruce

G`Day Guys
Just had the same aproach this morning on a mower i am selling even the suprise gift for brother there is another person trying out a similar aproach named roy scott both are using gmail as email provider hope this helps
Regards
Colin