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Car buyer scam?

  • 08-03-2011 3:40pm
    #1
    steve_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 956 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys im selling my car at the moment and i posted it on adverts and gumtree. I received an email from gumtree from a buyer saying they are interested in buying my car, this is when it got weird. Supposedly he works for the government so i cant contact him through phone calls or meet him in person. He will arrange a person to collect the car from me. Also he is buying for a friend and wants to pay me through paypal. Iv never used paypal but this sounds seriously dodgy


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    I think you know the answer to this already.;)


    There's no one important in our government anyway!


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    steve_ wrote: »
    He will arrange a person to collect the car from me. Also he is buying for a friend and wants to pay me through paypal. Iv never used paypal but this sounds seriously dodgy

    Did he ask genuine questions about the state of the car and it's history or was it all that cloak and dagger BS? Did he mention a test drive?

    Almost all Govt. departments have direct dial to the individual's extension so there's no excuse not to take a phone call. A few years ago a civil servant was caught running a string of hookers from his desk, he was rumbled when a journalist doing some research recognised the first few digits of the phone number of the 'massage parlour', it was the Cumberland St. Labour Exchange!

    Even if you had to go through a switchboard to reach him, buying a car over the phone is hardly going to get him sacked, half the civil service will be on the phones next week betting on Cheltenham. This is definitely a scam, run a mile.


  • #4
    Mar4ix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,352 ✭✭✭Mar4ix


    agree... scam.


  • #5
    biscuiteater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭biscuiteater


    perhaps it's the sas looking for a motor to get around Libya:D, did he ask could he borrow your passport too?


  • #6
    fm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭fm


    steve_ wrote: »
    supposedly he works for the government so i cant contact him through phone calls or meet him in person.

    Enda was it or maybe Brian?


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  • #7
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Lol, is this him?

    jack-bauer-24-movie.jpg

    If so I would not mess him about, he is bit of a hot head. :D


  • #8
    steve_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 956 ✭✭✭steve_


    Ha yeah it has to be a scam. He never asked once about the car, just that his "friend" would love it and he's buying it as a surprise. He mentioned something about a government convoy, i was just baffled at the convoluted message i received


  • #9
    izzyflusky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭izzyflusky


    My Other half got a similiar email when trying to sell his car. It's called nigerian scam or something like that, you can google it. Only in his email the person was from another country (can't remember which). He also wanted to pay through paypal and didn't even ask anything about the state of it.


  • #10
    kildare.17hmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    defo a scam sure every1 knows secret goverment agents only use cash


  • #11
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    steve_ wrote: »
    Hey guys im selling my car at the moment and i posted it on adverts and gumtree. I received an email from gumtree from a buyer saying they are interested in buying my car, this is when it got weird. Supposedly he works for the government so i cant contact him through phone calls or meet him in person. He will arrange a person to collect the car from me. Also he is buying for a friend and wants to pay me through paypal. Iv never used paypal but this sounds seriously dodgy
    Do you by any chance have any tickets in the spanish lottery, or have you sent money to the prince of nigeria?

    This is an obvious scam.


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  • #12
    NavNav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭NavNav


    You should trace his email header details which I did and found him his email to originate from Nigeria.
    Use www.spamcop.net to find out how to get his email header details for your email client.
    Then use http://www.ipligence.com/geolocation to see where the IP is from.

    Ultimately GumTree is a ****e site for allowing these dicks to get through in the first place. It's not that difficult to stop them getting in.

    I even tried to inform gumtree but there crap form wouldn't submit so my scammer is still active on gumtree!!


  • #13
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    NavNav wrote: »
    You should trace his email header details which I did and found him his email to originate from Nigeria.
    Use www.spamcop.net to find out how to get his email header details for your email client.
    Then use http://www.ipligence.com/geolocation to see where the IP is from.

    Ultimately GumTree is a ****e site for allowing these dicks to get through in the first place. It's not that difficult to stop them getting in.

    I even tried to inform gumtree but there crap form wouldn't submit so my scammer is still active on gumtree!!

    Please don't drag up old threads. There is a mega thread if you want to post there.


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