I know this is a bad idea but I'm so tempted anyway

anewman

E-mail them the name and address of a police station or something lol. But the use my escrow thing means it's always a scam as the escrow company is fake and the money goes direct to the seller and surprise surprise the whole tracking stuff is fake too. No money, no car.

Wig

I just had my 1st little nibble from this fish.

I have requested some details of documents etc, so I don't expect a reply. But we'll see.

Wig

I think it's safe to say he's not going to reply to me.

I asked him roughly the following

"What is the Registration Number? Please send a photo of the V5 Registration document to include the Registration No. and the Registration Document Reference number. What is the expiry date of the MOT?"

I was going to use the information to check the cars status on the DVLA website and the VOSA website .

Maybe I should chase him up.

Tabmow

This sound like to reverse version of the famous Nigerian scams where someone has a silly reason for buying your car, cat, grand piano or whatever you are selling and it would clearly cost more to do what they are proposing than the sensible thing. Some character purportedly from Buckie North East Scotland wanted to buy my car for his son - he worked in France, oh yes he did. Glad you had the sense to check this out - too good to be true - you knew it. (and funnily enough it has now been withdrawn from sale - good work baiters!)

ormus

got this tonite. im very tempted to bait him!
(ps, the sending addy was registered in mexico)


Hello Dear,
I have been contacting you about the claim of your Bank Draft but I did not hear from you for a long time, then I went and deposit the Draft

with Ifex Security Company here in Benin Republic, because we have concluded for this payment program and we have as well submited our report to (IMF) the governing body of the payment exersice.

On this note, you are advice contact the courier company to know when they will deliver your package. I have paid for the delivering and

insurance fee. Don't hesitate to contact the shipping company via this contact address below,

Company Name: IFEX EXPRESS DIPLOMATIC COURIER LTD.
Contact Person: MR. JOHNSON DAVIS
E-mail: [EMAIL="ifexexpressdiplomaticcourier@yahoo.fr"]ifexexpressdiplomaticcourier@yahoo.fr[/EMAIL]
Tell: 00229 937 289 83

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid demurage. I gave them your delivering address but you have to reconfirm it to them again

including your current contact phone number to avoid any mistake in the delivery.

Let me know as soon as you receive your parcel.

Thanks and God bless
Mr. Martin Lewis
The Payment Officer.

anewman

Yahoo.fr e-mail address for a shipping company :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: You think they'd actually make some effort and maybe spend a couple of quid to register a domain.

The mexican sending address is either a fake, a mail relay, or one registered by going to a mexican e-mail service. Do you have the complete headers of the e-mail? You could post them here and remove your address. In outlook they are accessible by right clicking and selecting "message options". In case you're not already aware the headers can let you find out the genuine source of the sender, although some of the components can be faked.

Did you change the name to Martin Lewis as a joke?

Give them the address of Buckingham Palace to send it to lol.

FannyHill

Tabmow wrote: »

This sound like to reverse version of the famous Nigerian scams where someone has a silly reason for buying your car, cat, grand piano or whatever you are selling and it would clearly cost more to do what they are proposing than the sensible thing. Some character purportedly from Buckie North East Scotland wanted to buy my car for his son - he worked in France, oh yes he did. Glad you had the sense to check this out - too good to be true - you knew it. (and funnily enough it has now been withdrawn from sale - good work baiters!)

I once travelled 300 miles to buy a car but it was one that is hard to find a Volvo1800E just like Simon Templar's one. :beer:

I'd go even further if necessary.

mrtg0525

steveeeee wrote: »

I know it's crazy but the situation hasn't put me off. The story sounds plausible but I'm not able to fly to Italy to check the car out in person so can't verify anything. Even if it turns out to be genuine and I can figure some safe way to send the money, and it turns out I hate the car, I expect I could at least sell it for a reasonable profit. I can't afford to risk £2600, though (hey, who can?!).

Let me guess - it's a zero rate seller as well.

As several other posters have said, it's a new fleabay scam. It's always the same - the vehicle is far too cheap yet the price normally includes delivery, the wording is all off and uses Americanisms, the pictures are nicked from other auctions (I know of at least one case where someone posted the ad while the original auction was still running!) and you get no answers to your questions regarding the actual vehicle.