Have car am selling and got this email from an interested party!!!

jobucks · 18-02-2009 10:29AM #1

selling car & got this email from interested party
Hi Guys , I have a car for sale on a few different websites, mostly free ads,not carzone or anything like that, and I got an email the other day asking me if the car was still available. To which I replied yes it was and would they like to arrange a viewing. This is the email I got back:

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Mcgate John <mrmcgatejohn@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello J,

Good to read back from you. after some days now and i'm happy to read
from you as well, i will have love to come and see the Punto but i
have been busy with work here and there.........Am much interested in
buying this Punto,and i want to know how much is the last price and i
would have come to look at it but am much pretty busy with work
here..Also i would pay you via certified check..Just let me know if
this is ok by you..I would also be handling the shipping myself cause
i have a local mover that always have my goods picked up and have it
delivered in front of my house here in Dublin, Ireland..So let me know
if all this suit you..and get back to me with your contact details in
which payment will be send to you..Such as your full name and full
contact address and your personal phone number........Will be so glad
to read back from you soon..
God bless you..

Best Regards.

Mr McGate John.

Now apart from the email sounding a bit like it was written from a Nigerian prince (who also often sends me emails) my other concern is that the address this email went to was not the same address I sent my reply from.... how did he get this email address and is he for real???

I've posted this in motors aswell mods so if you need to move it no probs.

phasers · 18-02-2009 10:35AM

Scam.

will1977 · 18-02-2009 10:36AM

Scam scam scam scam scam all day long !!

Noopti · 18-02-2009 10:37AM

Anytime you see "God Bless", or any derivative of such in an email, it is a scam. :pac:

Jimbo · 18-02-2009 10:38AM

Or 'last price'

Das Kitty · 18-02-2009 10:39AM

Scam!

There's a similar one that people get who are trying to let their property.

It starts like this, seems ok, then the next thing they'll be asking you to front a bit of money. You'd probably get wise but you will have wasted ages to-ing and fro-ing.

Somefing like this for the rental version but you get the gist.

http://paulm.com/inchoate/2004/06/419_rent_scam.html

Actually here you go:
http://www.thebiglot.com/info_Car-Buying-Scams.asp

18-02-2009 10:40AM

Didnt know there were any macs in Nigeria.

ShooterSF · 18-02-2009 10:42AM

Don't mind this poepel kind sir. Is ok to sell car to thes man. He is very 100% ok. You have no worries now ok. Please pay by Western Union I mean please help him have new car.

God Bless ok.

Stagsy · 18-02-2009 10:43AM

You'd wonder why these guys can't find anyone who could write a half believable email.

MonicaBing · 18-02-2009 10:43AM

Scam....I got a mail yesterday from the FBI no less...but they are now based in Brazil?? Telling me to contact them etc re:some spam mails i've received lately and that i could be entitled to compensation for the inconvenience i suffered! All i had to do was give em a load of personal details to process the job! Am affronted at the fact that they think i may be that stooopid:P

But i'd love to know how many people are actually gullible enough to go through with them....?

Sean Quagmire · 18-02-2009 10:43AM

Have a bit of fun with him.
Tell him you need a security photo from him before you can continue the transaction.

something like oh say stand on one leg. with a bucket on your head. with no shirt. holding two sticks of fire.

Like THIS guy

scambaiter.com

Sanjuro · 18-02-2009 10:44AM

The author of that email seems so overjoyed at you replying, and the prospect that you may send him another reply, that I think he may want to jump your bones. Which you may see as a scam or not. I dunno if you're that way inclined.

Singer73 · 18-02-2009 10:44AM

SCAM. Certified check? SCAM

hobochris · 18-02-2009 10:47AM

Its a 100% complete scam, but it looks like he/she is trying to come across as a local to try conceal that the fact this is just another scam email.... in a very retarded way that you'd need to have a full lobotomy to even have a minute chance of beleaving...

jobucks · 18-02-2009 10:48AM

I've emailed him back and told him I would be delighted to sell my car to him. And that seeing as he is from Dublin and I'm in Cork I'll meet him somewhere in between, also gave him my full fake name and address

Berty · 18-02-2009 10:49AM

Aha, got your thread closed in motors and here you are.

BTW you also won 100 billion dollars from some dead black guy in a country that barely has two brown pennies to rub together. Give me your bank account details and I will send you all the money even though I could just give it all to my neighbour and get him to write me a cheque for half. :rolleyes:

Squiggle · 18-02-2009 10:49AM

Stagsy wrote: »

You'd wonder why these guys can't find anyone who could write a half believable email.

Yeah - makes you wonder about the people who do get ripped off ! Einstein doesn't spring to mind :pac:

Sean Quagmire · 18-02-2009 10:50AM

Go with the security photo !!

thos idiots will do anything to scam you, make him do something stupid and take a photo 'for security reasons'

Noopti · 18-02-2009 10:51AM

MonicaBing wrote: »

Scam....I got a mail yesterday from the FBI no less...but they are now based in Brazil?? Telling me to contact them etc re:some spam mails i've received lately and that i could be entitled to compensation for the inconvenience i suffered! All i had to do was give em a load of personal details to process the job! Am affronted at the fact that they think i may be that stooopid:P

But i'd love to know how many people are actually gullible enough to go through with them....?

Listen, everyone knows the FBI are in fact based in Brazil, and that they use Yahoo as their email provider.

Canis Lupus · 18-02-2009 10:54AM

See how many times he'll send a cheque. Least make him waste some change on postage.

Number one · 18-02-2009 10:59AM

Just give him your bank account details and see what happens

jobucks · 18-02-2009 11:01AM

I think I'm going to go with the security photo, just waiting for him to get back to my last email. I must root out my bank details and have them ready fo him:D

Noopti · 18-02-2009 11:04AM

jobucks wrote: »

I think I'm going to go with the security photo, just waiting for him to get back to my last email. I must root out my bank details and have them ready fo him:D

A lot of scammers are aware of the security photo gag now, down to scambaiting etc.

But hopefully this guy is unaware of it.

corkhero · 18-02-2009 11:06AM

Also he spells cheque the american way yet is from Dublin

Number one · 18-02-2009 11:15AM

corkhero wrote: »

Also he spells cheque the american way yet is from Dublin

It doubt he's won any awards in english prose either

Sean Quagmire · 18-02-2009 11:17AM

jobucks wrote: »

I think I'm going to go with the security photo, just waiting for him to get back to my last email. I must root out my bank details and have them ready fo him:D

The trick to getting the photo is to dangle the carrot in front of him after you ask for it. Act a little simple so that he thinks he's set for the deal.

Tell him you are unsure about the deal as you have not yet seen him and that you will require a photo of him holding a sign with a passphrase that says "did horton hear a who? who knows but this deal is 100% risk free"

he will send the photo

Noopti · 18-02-2009 11:24AM

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

The trick to getting the photo is to dangle the carrot in front of him after you ask for it. Act a little simple so that he thinks he's set for the deal.

Tell him you are unsure about the deal as you have not yet seen him and that you will require a photo of him holding a sign with a passphrase that says "did horton hear a who? who knows but this deal is 100% risk free"

he will send the photo

I doubt it. Seriously, I used to scambait these guys a lot a few years ago and they always fell for it. Recently they just seem to ignore you once you start asking for stuff like that, worth a try though.

Sean Quagmire · 18-02-2009 11:28AM

Noopti wrote: »

I doubt it. Seriously, I used to scambait these guys a lot a few years ago and they always fell for it. Recently they just seem to ignore you once you start asking for stuff like that, worth a try though.

I do it too but dont get too far with them either.
But we had no collateral, no carrot. The scammer knows the car sale is real and that jobucks is not a baiter.
It cracks me up, did you see the trophie of 419eater of the guy with 'help me obiwan kanobe your the only one who can save me' sign
lol :pac:

Noopti · 18-02-2009 11:39AM

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

I do it too but dont get too far with them either.
But we had no collateral, no carrot. The scammer knows the car sale is real and that jobucks is not a baiter.
It cracks me up, did you see the trophie of 419eater of the guy with 'help me obiwan kanobe your the only one who can save me' sign
lol :pac:

lol...yeah, some of them are great. The best were the ones he actually convinced to get tattoos done and the guy who flew all the way to Scotland to meet, only for the baiter to be secretly filming him and phone him saying it was all a scambait! Hilarious!

When we did it, we got some photos and some hilarious voicemails left.

kowloon · 18-02-2009 12:47PM

Sounds pretty genuine to me, best start dissasembling that Punto for delivery.

jobucks · 18-02-2009 01:31PM

wow am really on a roll today, first somone wants to buy my car, and now I've just received this email!!!

Good Day,‏
From: Hampel, Gina R (HampelGinaR@uams.edu)

You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as junkSent:18 February 2009 19:43:21To:

Good Day,
I am Mr. Vincent Cheng Hoi Chuen, GBS, JP Chairman of the Hong Kong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.I have a transaction of mutual benefit
that worth 24.5 Million USD$, If interested please email me on my personal
email address: Reply To:directorcheng1@yahoo.com.hk.
Best Regards,
Mr. Vincent Cheng
________________________

Is today some kind of official spamming holiday?????

Have car am selling and got this email from an interested party!!!

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