Strange buyer? not familiar.

[gav022]

Lads am selling my car at the moment and got an e-mail from a woman called metilda that shes from yorkshire?..

heres what she wrote...

Hello,
I'm maltida from yorkshire i saw the advert of your Parts & Accesories &car i'm intrested in puchaseing it i have also send some of my patners out to help me in saeching for it ,and i will like to see the pics if it is available at the moment; what is the is the last price of it. i will pay you by certified check or money order, and i'm going to arrange for the shipping. hoping to read from you. pls mail me back soonest....... thanks,

Hello Gav,
Thanks for the email.I am interested and would be willing to buy it at that price(79000euro). I have an International shipping agent that will come pick it up from your car and ship to me.
I will arrange for payment by sending your
Full name..............
Address ...............
Zipcode................
Country................
Tel No.................
to my client in the States who is owing me the amount of 10,000euro to issue you a check for this amount. which is a refund for a cancelled order I placed with him, and being a refund the amount can only be written on a single check.
I know it is more than the car price but after getting the check, I need you to cash it and deduct cost of the car, then do me a favour of wiring the remaining
balance to my International shipper via western union. You will also deduct 300euro for running around and for the charge fee for wiring back the difference.
After this is done and he gets the money , he will then pick it up from your residence and ship to me. So, confirm this and send your full name and address
including phone # for mailing the check payment to you as soon aspossible.
Waiting for your urgent reply,
Kind regards,

Does this sound dodgy to anyone?

[gav022]

e-mailed her back earlier on asking for her phone number.

this is her reply

Hello Gav,

Thanks for your mail,i want you to know that i 'm persently in west africa now for some business and my phone as a problem,So i can give he to you now,get back to me with your contact address and phone number,so that my client can made out the payment to you very fast.

Thanks...

why wud anyone buy a car without knowing if its any use or even seen it?.
i placed the add on freeads.ie....... this is abit weird if u ask me..

[Kace]

Sounds very weird to me. I suggest that if you are providing an address - give your work one just in case someone arrives at your doorstep.

Haven't heard of this scam before (if it is one). Keep us posted.

[CJ]

Its a scam, don't reply to any of the emails.

CIaran

[alanmccormack]

Sounds unbelieveably dodgy! Don't touch it with a ten foot barge pole! Never part with a car until the money is safely lodged in your bank account - and in this case I bet that they are not offering the money until the car has being shipped...

This is fraud, you should pass the details on to the Guards.

I'd love to hear from anyone else who has seen this.

[soc]

e-mailed her back earlier on asking for her phone number.

This is obviously a scam - don't answer any of these emails.

[kevinod]

Yup, agree with all the other guys, very freaky stuff. Always a bad sign when they can't give you a phone number and are avoiding contact in anyway apart from email.

If I were you I'd stay well away from whoever this is.

Interesting to see though!

Kev.

[Viper]

Definetly do not reply to this mail!!!
I've heard of this before in America... you reply to this email with your name, address etc. and then a couple of days later your car is stolen. It's the easiest form of stealing to order possible - the owner gives them an address for the car they are looking for.

[gav022]

yea knew it sounded dodgy alrite,

im sure plenty of ppl have gotten this e-mail from freeads.ie.

ill e-mail them the e-mail address etc. n let them deal with it.

ill keep ya posted. gonna e-mail this fuker sum abuse now

[gav022]

freeads.ie got back to me saying that the guards already informed and ders a warning on the website which i didnt see obviously..