So i'm selling my truck. I've got a guy who says he wants to buy it. The strange part is that he is working through somebody (who refers to him as a client) I'm unsure if this is legitimate or nor, especially since the guy lives in England, which seems like a WAY far distance to go for a 2007 F-150. In the email i just recived, it says a cashiers check was issued for 24,500 (18k of which covers the truck, the rest for shipping,taxes, ect) Should i be worried?]


Greetings.....
Thanks for your response,after evaluation of the vehicle and due to time constraint,I am happy to inform you that I have concluded arrangements with my client and he was very happy with the condition of your car and he has issued a cashier check of ($24,500) which now covers the whole expenses of the purchase of your vehicle, tax, pickup of the vehicle from its location and shipping charges or any shipping arrangements together with the money that will come to me as interest for my effort, he also told me that he will proceeding for his annual leave and will like this transaction to be over before he will go on leave, so When you receive check payment, you are expected to deduct the cost of your vehicle which is ($18,000) and send the remaining balance of ($6,500) to the agent (shipper) for h im to be able to offset s hipping & tax charges. After payment has reached you and balance sent to shipper, the shipper's agent will come for inspection, pick up (of vehicle & signing of title papers) and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped to my (client) and also conclude other necessary shipping arrangements. So you don't have to bother yourself about the pick up and shipping arrangements.
Please confirm the above and provide your payment information for your payment to be delivered to you via courier service.
Please provide the following:
1-LEGAL NAME IN FULL..............
2. CONTACT ADDRESS.....................
3. PHONE NUMBER(S)...........................
I will be expecting your mail with full payment information so that we can proceed. Thanks And God Bless,
Mark Schoff
96 Waterloo Rd Southport
Meyerside PRS 3AY.
England

 

wait, are you seriously asking this? lol

not trying to rag on you or anything, but this is the oldest scam in the book.

nigerians perfected it, and others took off with it.

 

i pretty much knew that it was, just wanted to ask.....

 

big time scam...meet the guy and him. fucking scammer.

 

i know, i wish i could meet up with this d-bag and give him what for. Idiots have nothing better to do with their lves than try and scam others

 

tell him you want cash, and he can pick the truck up at your door... I got the same thing when I tried to sell my drum set... told 'em bring me cash, and never heard from them again... you'll find out really quick whether they're serious or not...

but i agree, definitely a scam...

 

OK, dude. My dad's a car/truck wholesaler in the SE United States.......no one ever cuts a check in full for shipping fees and commission-those are handled by the broker/buyer. If they send the check....see if it clears, but this sounds shady as hell. How did they contact you?

 

 

i was contacted through e-mail, it sounded fine until he said the guy was in England, then i sensed a scam

 

ok I felt ilke sharing this........

I used ot w=own a Yamaha fj1100 motorcycle and when I was on that forum sopme one had gone thorugh this scam and was hit pretty bad with it...so here is the story....

This guy wanted to sell his bike he put it up for sale everywhere....some one from overseas contacted him and told him that he is willing to buy the vehicle and he will pay by Demand Draft....the buyer settled for the asking amount and said that he has some business dealing here in the US and is accepting some payments from one of his clients....and since he is buying thie motorcycle he can ask the client to forward the payment to the seller.....but the amount that the seller will receive will be like 5k more so in turn once the seller receives the DD he has to deduct the vehicle amount and wire transfer the rest of the money to an account provided by the buyer....OK so far so good.....everything sounds ligit uptill this point the seller has alreday give the address and stuff to the buyer to send the payment.......now after a week or so the seller receives the DD whihc he duly deposits in his account to it to insach the funds into his account....he even gets the fund transfered intohis account now as a good american citizen he goes ahead the forwads the balance 5k to teh account that the buyer had requested........and now waits for the vehcile to be picked up....after a month of so FBI agenst show up at his door step and arrest him for check fraud....they found out after a month or so that the DD that he deposited was a fradulant one and this could onely find out after a month as it take a mounth for the Dd to be verifed by the originator.....but the money is made avalibale to you instantly in your account.......the scammers use this i month window of the verification process to scam people.......

long story short even if you receive any kind of international Demand Draft, Chashiers chceck or any other kind of payment...do not accept it ....well i have recevied international payments for stuff that I sold on ebay but but only through paypal thats it.......

my 2%...sorry it was too long but i had to share this based on the last comment posted by "bhurlbut"

 

Get his address, and send his ass some monopoly money!

 

send him sugar or flour in an envelope, thatll scare him. he'll think its anthrax
if hes in england, why would he want a RHD vehicle????

 

I have his address, but who knows if its actually real or not. And thanks jfkhan for the info. I'll ask him about sending cash and see what kinda reply (if any) i get

 

I guarantee it's a fake, did he contact you through craigslist?

 

no its not on craigslist. I have it listed on ebay motors and autotrader. I got an email from him a couple days ago asking if the truck was still available and then another asking condition, mileage, ect, and then the one today saying his "client" wants to buy it...thats when it started to sound wierd, i mean who would go that far to get an F-150? Its the best-selling truck ever, it can't be that hard to come by!

 

Ah, the scammers use autotrader as well as craig

 

^^^ its called baiting.........If i would like to bust his chops I would act navie and ask him to send the DD or chcek or what ever he is sending the money via and after you receive the check just go cold on him....sucker...he will spend the money making a fake document and that will really be naling his ass as he will be down a couple of $$ hahahah....even if it is just $2...you will still come out a winner and he a sucker..........fucking moron...or better just hand over the check/DD to the FBI..they will be more that happy to take it off of your hands........

 

they'll send you fake checks and fake money orders.
then you're just digging deeper holes for yourself.

 

so..let me get this straight...if he is sent a fake money order...and tries to deposit it...HE will get fucked? but not the guy that made it??

 

yeah, trying to cash a fake money order will get you in big trouble.

 

any time you go into a bank it has all that info about scams and checks. but this is def a scam. i advertised my crx on autotrader years ago and had someone send me the same letter just with a different country. something about not many crx's were made in their country and they are all rusty. either way i screwed with the guy for a few weeks for fun. oh yea at the end of it i told the guy the titles not in my name but my dads and hes a judge and that my mother the accountant would handle all the funds. funny i never heard back from him again.

 

I almost fell for this a few years back except it wasn't a car, it was electronics, here's what you do:


Find out the address to ship it to, get a midsize cardboard box and line the inside of it with 2-3 heavy duty trash bags....Get a smaller sized cinder block and then put it in said box...Then go to your local dog park and get the largest, most nastiest discolored dog shits you can find...I'm talking monster turds here. After you have found your treasured 4-legged dumps, throw them in the box as well.

To top it off, take a drive around, preferably a highway or main road, look for some real fucked up roadkill, like total mess roadkill. Don't forget to bring a shovel and a mask because you have to scoop that shit into your box as well. On a piece of plain white paper, just scrawl "Fuck you Cock Smooch" and throw it on top, duck tape that box real good and send it on it's way.

I thought it was worth it.

 

yeah that'll make it through customs

 

See its a good thing you guys are here because i am a retarted 17 year old and as long as i can read it i think ts a ligit deal. If i would have been in your position i would have gone for it, nd probably be out of a truck right now .i think most of these selling/buying/trading websites should be 18 and up. i am not going to lie to you that looked ligit to me , craigslist should 21 exspecially round here, last summer my cousin sold his dirtbike to some guy in philly nd when he should up with the bike on the trailer they jumped him nd beat the shit outa him nd ganked his bike.