internet scam

Hi Warren,
If they can't contact you by phone just ignore them, they will give you the story that they will pay your price and organise a courier to pick up the car once they have deposited the money in your paypal account but you have to pay the freight to the courier prior to pick up or something like that. That's where it ends. I have just listed a car for sale and had 4 people want to contact me by email only, this all happened within half an hour of listing the add. They must be scanning the sites for any new adds.
My best advise is to deal in person only. Be very careful.
Regards
Ken

Warren,

We sold a car recently via on-line advertising. We used three advertisers, all big and reputable. They ALL said do not respond to email only contacts because the risk of scam is too high.

Phone or nothing, mate.

Cheers

Frank

They tell u they've deposited say $22,000 instead of $20,000 and can you please transfer the $2000 back as soon as possible.

I sold a motorbike on gumtree recently (to a legit person). On the first day it was advertised I received 2 emails saying they would pay more than i advertised. I replied to both saying I had a higher offer and if they could beat it I would consider their offer. They both replied with higher prices. I kept on going with the same replies until the price was about 3 times the original. Both of them gave up. Fun while it lasted. lol

wizzer

Hi Warren, i actually always try to keep contact to e-mail only as it gives me time to check up on people and reply when i have time, but one thing i do is leave my full contact details numbers, adress ect with the e-mail so people see that i am not trying to scam them, i also request them to return more details other than e-mail adress only and it has paid off also as as i have nearly been scammed around $28,000 grand but smelled a rat and they would not give me an adress, i then started checking and found some nasty backgrounds ...... and yes i rang and spoke to him ........ so please dont only go by the phone contact being the be all/end all as it simply aint ...... mobile numbers can even be stolen and are NOT reliable at all .... replying to an e-mail does not make it sold and you may well lose a good sale, simply reply and request more info and go from there, dont shut the door to quick eh, some people do have a genuine reason to do that...
Cheers
Joe

They emailed us too. Paypal is what they wanted me to use. I forwarded the email back to them and traiding post with a message saying you have been reported. They never contacted again. Next day an email came from traiding post telling me i did the right thing and apology.

If it's a genuine GT Falcon a serious buyer would only part with the readies after a thourough check of the chassis/engine# etc to prove authenticity. I'd never buy a GT without physically sighting the car first. A buyer who offers without seeing it is dodgy.
A bit like XU1 Toranas, 4 times as many were on the road through the eighties than were ever built during the 70's.

Good luck with the sale,wish I still had my XTGT.........should never have sold it!

When we sold our car I had 3 people ring and want to buy it over the phone sight un seen. It was an 80 series fully loaded and I mean fully loaded with extras. Final guy offered $3500 more than best offer I had and more than asking price. Put deposit in my account and flew to Tassie to pick it up. We walked into the bank, he pulled out $XX,XXX in cash and handed it over.
When we sold our camper a guy rang and said he'd take it. He put $1000 in my account for me to hold it. He called in transfered the rest and drove out with our trailer.
We did however have plenty of scammers call. One guy called and asked all sorts of questions about the trailer and our trip. In fact he asked to many questions, which made me sus. He knew to much about me for my liking. He had gathered info from this site about us and it was like he was becoming my friend. After about 6 phone calls, talking mainly about our trip and how the kids liked it he started talking along the lines of money being tight and living in a remote area. The next time he called I mentioned I had had 3 calls recently which turned out to be scams that I reported to the police. I said it was nice to speak to some like him who was honest....never heard back from him after that.
This guy was un believable. I was doing his best to become my friend then run the scam.
The thing with scammers (the good ones anyway) is they are not dumb or stupid like many think. They have contacts in strategic places and are very savy. If they were honest business people they would probably be very successful. As we become aware of scams they try something new.
I still like...you bring cash you take the goods idea.

Josh