I am selling my car. Today I got this response:
Great! please consider it sold and remove the adverts online as i am willing to pay your asking price? because i need to buy it for my cousin asap as a surprise gift, i have read through the advert and i'm totally satisfied with it, sadly i would not be able to come personally to collect due to my hearing loss and I'm just recovering from heart surgery so I'm home-bound. can i earn your trust, hope i wont be disappointed? I have a courier agent that would help me to pick it up at your preferred location after you have received your money and cleared to your account and i'll pay you via PayPal today once you get back to me with your Paypal email and full name. Where is the pick up location so that i can inform the courier agent about it now? Await your response.
Is this the worst attempt yet at attempted fraud?
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Great! please consider yourself a twat and stop responding to my advert, Because I need your offer like a hole in the head, I have read through your email and I'm totally convinced it is a crock of shit, sadly I would not be able to come personally to take this out of your sorry hide due to soiling myself after a bout of immoderate hilarity. No way will I trust you, I am bound to be disappointed. I have some very unsavoury friends who would love to meet you at your preferred location after you have reversed your payment. Where is your preferred pick up location so that I can remember never to go there.
Who the fuck buys a car as a surprise gift? For their cousin?
Like its an Americans fucking sweet 16 or something.
Their story never changes either. Makes me laugh. Always some kind of bullshit ailment and sob story.
Shitcunts like you want boiling, peeling and rolling in salt.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youI remember when I was on the tools we had a crusty old transit come in, it was an mot failure due to corrosion, it was proper fecked! The owner asked us to sell it for him or scrap it, so we put it on eBay.
We had a huge amount of very stupidly high offers, cash offers they were too from African gentlemen all in the London area, we were based in Suffolk! Anyhow, it sold on eBay for silly money , a lot more than it was worth, and who picked it up? An African man from London! It was a legit sale and a legit buyer, after a bit of research it was probably exported to somewhere in Africa (I cant remember the exact country now) and the vehicles there were on sale for huge amounts of money, the average crock of shit was fetching stupid money. So my guess is it was filled full of car parts or other goods and exported to be sold, so sometimes what looks like a scam may well not be.
In this case though, listen to the alarm bells, only accept cash.
You wonder who.
My son's motorbike was stolen from the local Train station car Park 2 weeks ago.
The Met Police wasted 2 days squabbling over whether it was their problem or British Transport Police issue .Neither wanted to own it !
I took the piss by asking them " what if the thief was caught driving out of the Car Park with one wheel on the road and the other still in the car park ?......." the irony was lost on them.
The station office confirmed that it was all covered on 24 hour CCTV.
The Police confirmed it would take them 3 MONTHS to access and view it !.......................Pathetic.
Yes I'm sure they will be desperate to arrest a Gumtree Scammer .......by asking him to wait around outside the Police Station for 3 months !
I had thought about giving them fake info and emails. I will the next time...
It's obviously a whole different dynamic out in the US, given geography and culture - but still, always good to be clued up on latest methods