Selling car overseas, safest form of payment ?

andy111

Be careful out there: I lost a lot of money on this one:

Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home
Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)
Plot 555
Misau Street
PMB 437
Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA

Dear Mr. Sir,

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.

Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.
Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.

Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include downpayment in this financial quarter.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message via my direct number 234 (0) 9-234-2220 only.

Yours Sincerely, Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager

[EMAIL="tip@nasrda.gov.ng"]tip@nasrda.gov.ng[/EMAIL]

http://www.nasrda.gov.ng/

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davemorton

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

think you have that backwards, 30kGBP equate to approx $46k aud

looking on sites there your looking at £15kGBP $28k aud for your car.

the market is here for your car not there.

Could not find any that cheap, cheapest I could find over there was $40K, which is about £25K, hence making my market over there.

If he is trying to scam me, he is going the wrong way around it, as he has just forked out £300 for an independent inspection.

iolanthe07

Sounds genuine for once, and Oz does drive on the left. Ask your bank about international credit transfers and let the buyewr arrange the shipping. Don't ship the car until you have received payment and be sure that it has cleared.

davemorton

iolanthe07 wrote: »

Sounds genuine for once, and Oz does drive on the left. Ask your bank about international credit transfers and let the buyewr arrange the shipping. Don't ship the car until you have received payment and be sure that it has cleared.

Good advice. I think he is intending to use the gentleman he instructed to do the inspection to sort out the export, as its one of the services he offers.