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Originally Posted by Laird Scooby
Yes, those things could be circumstantial and it may be a genuine car and sale and i could be wrong. However i've seen similar scams many times on a variety of cars from the last available Chevette GL auto saloon, a Datsun C210 Skyline and several others - usually a little "off-beat" for the majority of people which obviously minimises the risk of being found out until after the scam is complete.
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... you are right about the prevalence of scams Dave, particularly on the internet. Someone tried to pull a clumsy scam on me regarding a motorbike I'm selling on eBay just a few days ago. It was a classified ad, someone got in touch asking whether they could pay by PayPal (which would have been fine by me, but I became suspicious). A few hours later I received an eBay message saying they had transferred the money and I should check my email inbox (particularly the spam mail box - even more suspicious) for the details.
Sure enough in my spam mail box there was an email entitled 'You've got money' and purporting to be from PayPal (actually an alias from 'customerverifiedcenter@accountant.com' - much more suspicious). I read the email with the preview software without opening it and could see it claimed to have transferred £1950 (the price of the bike was £1500) and asking me to send back £400 via MoneyGram with £50 to cover charges.
It was clearly a scam, and one would have to be a little foolish to fall for it (which does not mean that will not happen). I've reported it to the plod at ActionFraud, but I rather suspect it will go in the bin.
Ho hum.