Selling car on autotrader, poss scam?

Rumman

Hi,

I'm selling a car on autotrader, and had an enquiry by email, the first email sounded geuine enough but the second one after my reply sounded like a scam,

Hello,
Thanks alot for getting back to me,and am very happy that you still have the car for sale. Well this car is what I have been searching for quite some months now before I finally got yours.Regards the price,i will offer
you £2,550 for it because i don't want you to sell it to another person and i will like to know more about the car.
So i will want you to please email me it's full details and when the m.o.t is going to expire.
Please i will want you to get back to me with these answers so that we can proceed from there..
If you can get back to me as soon as possible i would be glad to wrap everything up in a short while so that i can take the
possession of the Car .I will be willing to pay you with a Uk banker's Draft which will clear between 3-4 days in any Uk
bank of which i have a shipping company that will come for the shipment of the Car ..
So if you are ok with this kindly get back to
me so that we can conclude the transaction on time.


Am i right? The shipment and company i don't anything to do with, sounds like a con i'm guessing?

shandypants5

I had an almost identical Email for a motorbike I was trying to sell a few years back.

It sounded like a scam to me too and I just never bothered to reply again.

Never heard from them again.

cyclonebri1

Definate scam steer well clear. Next thing they will make the bankers order for £1k over ask you to refund the differnce taking £250 for your "trouble". You end up with the car minus the refunded amount as the bond will bounce.

Standard answer on most motoring forums is to reply back stating that the car has a few problems, ie the giggle widget is worn and the catastrophic extracter needs replacement. If they are still interested, well, you get the message;)

geo555

SCAM SCAM SCAM

Read here
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/safety_and_security/forged_bankers_drafts.jsp
and
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/safety_and_security/vehicle_export_scam.jsp

in51der

geo555 wrote: »

SCAM SCAM SCAM

Read here
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/safety_and_security/forged_bankers_drafts.jsp
and
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/safety_and_security/vehicle_export_scam.jsp

and here...

http://www.motor-trade-insider.com/index.php/2008/06/car-%E2%80%9Cmatchmakers%E2%80%9D-are-on-the-prowl-beware/

hewhoisnotintheknow

total scam, if its too good to be true, it probably is

Unless your car is something special, they wouldnt buy it without seeing it

albionrovers

Probably Nigerian scammers.

And the UK bankers draft will be almost certainly be payment transfer by Western Union, so dodgy you could drive a big bus through the gaps.

Avoid like the plague.