Scam to get my car ?

[foolish501]

I have an old beat up chevy celebrity which i've just fixed, and not needing it anymore, i thought i would advertise it online for sale.

I found a free classified website at http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/, and since putting the car on there i've had 5 interested parties for the car, each one has asked for photos, and agreed to pay the asking price. Strange thing is, each person is in a foreign country !! So far i remember somebody in Greece & somebody in Switzerland mailing me asking for photos, and saying they would send an international money order.

When i asked them about delivery they have all said they would have somebody ship the car to them !

Now i'm not stupid enough to give anybody my bank details if they wanted to transfer the money to me, but i was wondering if this is some kinda scam ?

 

[Thegonagle]

Yes. They're all scams.

Let me go find some info. . .

Here's one. HowStuffWorks.com--wow! I never would have guessed. Is there anything they can't tell you about these days?

 

[TommyVercetti]

Yes it is. The money order will look legit, and you are fooled to believe it is. Then you ship the car, and soon after the money order is rejected by the bank.

 

[Spencer278]

Most likely. Would you pay to ship a chevy halfway around the world. Tell them to send the money western union.

 

[fatkorean]

Its not about the car... its all about the cashiers check/MO etc..

What they do is send you a check for over the amount and say whoops mistake, or all my company has is x amount check. Deposit it and once it clears you can send the balance minus a fee to send the remainder to me. The thing is those checks usually take around a month or so to really clear. Your bank will clear it in a week or so... so once you send it, couple weeks later your bank will say that check was fake....

-fk

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Spencer278
Most likely. Would you pay to ship a chevy halfway around the world. Tell them to send the money western union.

 

[SportSC4]

how does the shipping work? i would agree to sell to one of the parties and when they set up the shipping I would ship over 2 tons of compacted trash. they pay to receive your trash and you get to keep a falsified MO as a souvenir.

 

[foolish501]

thanks guys !

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: SportSC4
how does the shipping work? i would agree to sell to one of the parties and when they set up the shipping I would ship over 2 tons of compacted trash. they pay to receive your trash and you get to keep a falsified MO as a souvenir.

The thing is, they're not going to bother picking up the car, so you'll never have the opportunity to send that trash over. They don't care about the car. All they want is money. The scam is about sending you a forged check for several thousand dollars more than the sale price and having you wire-transfer the difference. The excuse for the "check" being written for an amount other than the sale price varies, but the basic structure of the scam is always the same.

 

[Boogak]

My sister got hit with this scam while trying to sell her car, a guy from Nigeria (as if red flags don't go off immediately) said he'd buy her car but wrote the cashier's check for over the selling price, asking that she send him the difference. Luckily she finally got suspicious and called the cops, I saw the fake check the dude sent over and it looks pretty damn real.

 

[TGregg]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Yes it is. The money order will look legit, and you are fooled to believe it is. Then you ship the car, and soon after the money order is rejected by the bank.

From what I heard, they send you a MO for more than the price of the car, and ask for a check from you for the balance. They get ya coming and goin.

 

[Ryan]

Ya think? Geeze people, wake up and small the bullsh!t.