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Selling my car

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Evander

Golden Member
(I don't recommend selling your car online, expect text messages at all hours of the night, pretty much all of them scams. SHould have just put an ad in the local paper like I did last time, no cars.com or craiglist)

Thanks for your E-mail.

I have forwarded all information I got on your Ad and questions answered with price to my client and He has told me to continue with this transaction, he is fully interested in your vehicle.

However my client has made a certified cashiers check of($13,000.00) which is a refund payment of a canceled order earlier made by me.

THE REASON FOR THE CHECK

Due to Company policy this check has to be made out in this amount to you, because Company policy only allows a refund payment on one cashier check, so you are required to deduct cost of your car $5,800.00 when payment gets to you and refund balance of $7,200.00 to our shippers for them to be able to offset shipping charges and any cosmetic repair

After payment has reached you and balance sent back to him, our agent will come for pick-up and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped,while title papers and other necessary documents will be either collected from you at the point of pick-up or sent via FedEx courier to my Client.

Confirm this and provide :
1)Name (check will be made payable to)
2)Address ( the check will be delivered to) and Phone number for the
check payment to be delivered to you via registered mail.

NB.Please stop all correspondence with any intending buyer,as the Vehicle should be considered sold .

I hope you understand were my Company stands on this payment arrangement.

Sincerely
Harry Key
 
Oh ya, scam.

Plus, why would you include your phone in the ad?? E-mail ONLY!!!!!


I always let anybody know that if they dont have green cash, I always accept a USPS (That's UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE) money order. If they try to fake one of those, it's a federal offense, punishable by FEDERAL-POUND-ME-IN-THE-@$$......PRISON!! 😀
 
I believe the cars.com form required a telephone number, and also I won't be using this phone number any more at the end of the month. I guess I'll report dude to yahoo (he's using yahoo mail) and to cars.com, doubt that will do much though
 
Originally posted by: Evander
(I don't recommend selling your car online, expect text messages at all hours of the night, pretty much all of them scams. SHould have just put an ad in the local paper like I did last time, no cars.com or craiglist)

Thanks for your E-mail.

I have forwarded all information I got on your Ad and questions answered with price to my client and He has told me to continue with this transaction, he is fully interested in your vehicle.

However my client has made a certified cashiers check of($13,000.00) which is a refund payment of a canceled order earlier made by me.

THE REASON FOR THE CHECK

Due to Company policy this check has to be made out in this amount to you, because Company policy only allows a refund payment on one cashier check, so you are required to deduct cost of your car $5,800.00 when payment gets to you and refund balance of $7,200.00 to our shippers for them to be able to offset shipping charges and any cosmetic repair

After payment has reached you and balance sent back to him, our agent will come for pick-up and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped,while title papers and other necessary documents will be either collected from you at the point of pick-up or sent via FedEx courier to my Client.

Confirm this and provide :
1)Name (check will be made payable to)
2)Address ( the check will be delivered to) and Phone number for the
check payment to be delivered to you via registered mail.

NB.Please stop all correspondence with any intending buyer,as the Vehicle should be considered sold .

I hope you understand were my Company stands on this payment arrangement.

Sincerely
Harry Key
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Hell, yeah. Textbook scam. I let them send me the check/MO/whatever and give it to my grandchildren. If you look at it closely you'll find some kind of flaw. When they ask what happened to the excess I tell them I gave it to a local charity. That usually shuts them up. No one shows up for the car either.

 
What have people who have fallen for this scam do in recourse? Even if the scumbags get the title and car it seems hard to believe they could legally keep it if the check was fraud. The "prepaid shipper" who I'd suppose to drive this to, is that a legit shipper who just gets caught up in things (like with scams involving packages with USPS or UPS, etc) or is this a fly-by-night destination? If the latter, I can imagine there are people who have been defrauded in the past, and who intentionally post ads hoping to interact with any bad guys to dish out some vigilante justice. Unlike shipping normal packages, there is someone you'd actually have to meet
 
......our agent will come for pick-up and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped.....

No one will ever show up.
 
Yes that is a scam. I have sold 2 cars online, it's not hard, you just have to not be an idiot and use some common sense.

Just for fun reply back, tell him to take the check he has and cash it at his bank, then send his pickup driver with CASH MONEY. See what he says then.
 
Originally posted by: Evander
What have people who have fallen for this scam do in recourse? Even if the scumbags get the title and car it seems hard to believe they could legally keep it if the check was fraud. The "prepaid shipper" who I'd suppose to drive this to, is that a legit shipper who just gets caught up in things (like with scams involving packages with USPS or UPS, etc) or is this a fly-by-night destination? If the latter, I can imagine there are people who have been defrauded in the past, and who intentionally post ads hoping to interact with any bad guys to dish out some vigilante justice. Unlike shipping normal packages, there is someone you'd actually have to meet
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They aren't after the car - they are after your REAL money you get after you deposit the fake check into your bank.
 
I don't get it - how would they get this real money, and how would there even be any money for them to get if the check was fake? Maybe I'm missing something as I've never gotten or passed off a fake check
 
Originally posted by: Evander
I don't get it - how would they get this real money, and how would there even be any money for them to get if the check was fake? Maybe I'm missing something as I've never gotten or passed off a fake check
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It takes a while to determine that the check is fake, so at the begining everything seems fine and legit. You see 13k in your account and take out a $7200 check for the scammers.
Weeks pass and the bank says the check is fake, the money disappears from the account and you're left in the negative because you sent them $7200. You're screwed.
 
Would this trick work for the scammer if I were to open a new account with $0 and "refund" the $7200 from that? I'm guessing not and that this would just be a bounced check for them and I would owe nothing, but just thought I'd ask cuz like I've said I've never dealt with bad checks up til now. Actually I'll bet a large portion of Americans don't even have $7200 in their accounts (if anyone knows about that kind of figure it would be interesting to post about it).
 
Originally posted by: redgtxdi
Oh ya, scam.

Plus, why would you include your phone in the ad?? E-mail ONLY!!!!!


I always let anybody know that if they dont have green cash, I always accept a USPS (That's UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE) money order. If they try to fake one of those, it's a federal offense, punishable by FEDERAL-POUND-ME-IN-THE-@$$......PRISON!! 😀
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phone is more credible and required in many places.
 
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