western union scam

burbs_2

Hi

I posted a few days ago asking for advice on scams that people may try and catch me out with.

I have put 3 cars up on Ebay 2 days ago and all are doing quite well but the 2 biggest problems that occur are:

1. Dreamers and time wasters,
2. and more importantly the western union money scammers. i have already had 5 mails asking me whether i will take western union, even though i state in huge red letters that i wont under any circumstances after you guys told me to be careful

i have had 1 person message me offering £5000 over what i would expect for the car, he wanted to "sort the money out via western union" its "no problem with money, you get money in your bank, then i get vehicle collected, ok yeah?"

good job i asked on here and looked into things else i would not have been any the wiser, the way i see it is if the money is in your bank you are safe. thank you to everyone who advised me and pre warned me, you have saved me losing a whole load of money.

thanks

angelcake

Thats good to hear a success story! real glad you didn't lose your money over this well done for being vigilent!

RACHIE77

nice to hear that the scammers didn't win on that one!! if you are interested there is a 'sport' emerging called "Scam Baiting", just type this into google and it will show you all sorts of websites of people who have tried to trip up these scammers...

There is a thread here somewhere about a p-p-p-p-powerbook, i'll look it up for you and post the link - its really funny reading!

grin!

Rachie

RACHIE77

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=328084#post328084

enjoy! (I've bumped it up too)