Advice needed please- Is this a scam??

skintarooney

I have recently advertised my car in 'Loot' and had some questions asked via email, I provided the answers and now have received this email back:

Sorry for the late respond, I know you will be such a wondefull and reliable person to transact with.The best offer i can make and i which that will be more satisfy by you is £850 but the problem is that am out of cash as at now but i have a creditor in state who is oweing me the sum of £43900 but promise to pay me with a certified cheque drawn in the UNITED KINGDOM,In this case i will instruct him to make the check sent to you on my behalf,You will deduct your cost of chargesand assist me in sending the rest cash to my personal shipper that will come for the pick-up of the (CAR) via Western Union money Transfer so that they will prepared all paper document on the pick-up arrangement to prove that the goods is not a stolen ITEM and all other necessary arrangement too,They will also deduct the flight fee out of my outstanding balance also.Now i will like to know it's exactdimension,weight and leght because
myshipper will also need this details as well.I hope i can trust you with my exess funds?I will be very glad if you can make this transaction smoothly sucessfull because this our first time of having things together if i see you are a straight forward person then we can still do a lot of things together in future.You can kindly cash the cheque immediately in the bank because it's a cetisfied cheque.If you are ok with my explanations and certisfied with my mode of payment you can provide me your full details
such as:

Full Name on cheque...
Home Address...
State...
Zipcode...
Country...
Telephone Number...
Mobilephone number...
Fax Number...

If the details are provided then i know you are serious seller because i don't want any delay or dissapointment till this transaction will be terminated so that we will make it a succesful one ..I will conpesate you with £50 for you to remove the advert from
the website because i need the (CAR) urgently ,Actually am a citizen of England too but am in canada presently ok.I WILL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO
READ FROM YOU..

This has started alarm bells ringing, but could he be genuine and I am too suspicious?

Please can somebody advise me if this is an on going scam?

Thanks in advance. Also I am not sure I have posted in the correct place, if not I am sorry and will understand if this needs to be moved elsewhere.

seletar

It`s a scam.

arnie&caseysma!

Defo a scam. Tell them to bog off!

Sooler

skintarooney wrote:

Sorry for the late respond, ...

Would you really think this is genuine?

skintarooney wrote:

... I know you will be such a wondefull and reliable person to transact with.

Wouldn't bother reading any further.

geo555

For advice on scams check this site out

https://www.carcrimeawareness.co.uk/

skintarooney

Sooler, Do you know me or something?? Are you trying to say I am not totally wonderful??:rotfl:

hollydays

The thing i want to know is-are ANY Western Unions transactions legit?Ever?

Voyager2002

hollydays wrote:

The thing i want to know is-are ANY Western Unions transactions legit?Ever?

Well now, back in 1986 ...

... I used Western Union to draw out cash on my credit card. Their fee was around twenty per cent, but I did get real money and the amount on my cc statement was exactly what I was expecting. So that transaction at least was legit.

albertross_2

http://www.loot.com/rs6/homepage.asp?action=q&t=/general/help/help_sections/selling/overpayment_scams&atp=www

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=nigerian+scam&btnG=Search&meta=

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/CARS/sell/cc/fr-1.jsp

DisneyKatie

my uncle recieved something like this on eBay when he was selling his car. he played along with it(not giving any details of course) as the guy was pretending to know him, so my uncle sent him a few emails as though he was going to go through with it all. was pretty funny.

hazzie123

It`s defo a scam,would you be willing to hand over a cheque for that amount to a stranger and hope they would give you the money? I sure wouldn`t!