WARNING - Selling your car scam !!!

kchin

Hello,

I have juts recieved two emails from [EMAIL="adamclose69@yahoo.com"]adamclose69@yahoo.com[/EMAIL] and [EMAIL="petervittek77@gmail.com"]petervittek77@gmail.com[/EMAIL] after placing a add in Auto Trader. The have both offered to send bankers drafts. After sending them my address and phone number i have read a number of forums in-regards to this being a scam. I believe this to be a scam and would like to know if giving then my mobile number and address would affect me. I am so angry!!!

Thank you for your help!

Pound

Nah, they're only interested in getting money out of you, they'll go away once they know they're not going to scam you.

tamworthgirl

Hi everyone, have a read of the first artical

dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1176714/TONY-HETHERINGTON-A-curious-twist-old-fraud.html

Sorry I cannot post links, type www. before dailymail to view

Innit_2

Hi,
I was trying to sell my car, and i was approached by the buyer (face to face) saying he is going to export the car and needs me to keep section 11 (Notification of permanent export) and send it to DVLA and he wanted the rest documentation as he will need it whilke exporting.
Is it legal what he is saying? I think i'll be responsible for the car if he exports it straight away?!

grayme-m

tamworthgirl wrote: »

Hi everyone, have a read of the first artical

dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1176714/TONY-HETHERINGTON-A-curious-twist-old-fraud.html

Sorry I cannot post links, type www. before dailymail to view

That's brilliant; stupid, greedy or both? :rotfl:

tamworthgirl

Definitely both!

"Do I think the Ombudsman will award you £6,900? The words ' snowball' and 'hell' spring to mind".

Some people! :doh:

barbiedoll

My sister had a similar thing when she advertised a room for rent in her house. The guy wanted to rent the room for his daughter who was studying at the "University of England" and he wanted to send her a cheque for four weeks rent, plus four weeks as a deposit plus another £1000 on top! She replied that if he was going to pay out all that money, she assumed that he would like to see some pictures of the room. She sent him some pics of a broken down shed, the inside of a toilet and a picture of a large drooling scary dog for good measure adding, "I hope your daughter likes animals" Every time she replied to him, she signed off with a different name. It took eight weeks before he finally stopped replying to her increasingly demented emails! :rotfl::rotfl:

I_know_my_ABC_and_my_CMYK

Barbiedoll

What happened to Niddy?

carter69

Also trying to sell my car on Autotrader and had an email from a 'scammer', but he is offering to pay the funds into my bank account by money transfer. presumably this is cleared cash and the bank won't reverse it. I have a redudant account I can use so there won't be any other funds in there apart from this.

Any thoughts??

dealer_wins

carter69 wrote: »

Also trying to sell my car on Autotrader and had an email from a 'scammer', but he is offering to pay the funds into my bank account by money transfer. presumably this is cleared cash and the bank won't reverse it. I have a redudant account I can use so there won't be any other funds in there apart from this.

Any thoughts??

I would tell him to pay you by Western Union, thats the only way you can guarantee that you will get the payment, in good old cash!!