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scam or not

  • 07-08-2008 4:31pm
    #1
    tattoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭


    Hi folks,

    I have just been advised that this is a scam.

    I placed an ad in the buy and sell (car for 1500 euro). I received an email from the buyer saying that he didn't need a photo and he was very happy with the asking price (very strange).
    Here's the problem, he was going to send me a cashiers cheque for 4k and with the remainder of the money i was supposed to send a western union money transfer to the shipping company.
    I got in touch with the buy and sell and they told me to pull out of the deal. Apparently when i deposit the cheque into my account the bank will credit my account but it's only later that the cheque will bounce. The bank will look for the money back and i will have already sent the money transfer.

    Has anyone heard of this before? Any thoughts?


    I was really hoping that this was for real


Comments

  • #2
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    it's 2008 now I can't believe you're even asking this question.

    Yes it's a scam.


  • #3
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    thats an old one, scam scam scam.


  • #4
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    ntlbell wrote: »
    it's 2008 now I can't believe you're even asking this question.

    Yes it's a scam.

    I agree.

    100% a scam.


  • #5
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    One of the oldest, and simplest, of scams, and it works on the extremely poor (non-existent) security in the bank's cheque clearance systems. Allowing people to draw on an uncleared cheque is very dangerous, and without this these scams simply wouldn't work anymore.

    Not only do you end up out of pocket for the the money you'd have refunded by WU, you also loose your car.


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