This is a scam, right?
 

I think I recall reading that this is a common scam technique and just wanted to confirm that this is probably not a legit offer, as I believe is the case. I was unable to find anything using the "search" function. Below is an email I just received from a guy who inquired about the car I have posted on CL.

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Hello,

Thank you so much for your update. we are good to go, I will take the vehicle for $2000 so consider the vehicle SOLD.

I'll update you as to when shipping arrangement will be made so that you can be available when my shipper get's to your base to arrange pick-up and to handle the transfer of Title. Please send your full name/address and telephone number so that payment can be sent as soon as we conclude on all arrangements.

Payment will be mailed to you for the vehicle via USPS and I'll let you have the tracking number to track it as soon as it sent. The selling price for the vehicle/Shipping fees is included in the payment. Please can you give me your solemn word that you will forward the shipping funds to the shipping company as soon as you have it cashed at your bank?. The funds are meant for Insurance,Taxes and papers for the vehicle.


please attach photos's of the interior and the engine.

Get back to me.

Regards,

xxxxxxxxx
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Scam.

Double Scam.

advance fee scam

Ahh, have him send you the phony cashiers check - then send his "shipping agent" play money.

hahah this looks just like the thing my friends uncle got. He was selling his MB on flea bay and the guy offered to pay him 2K for the car including shipping, so he got the check, and all the time this guy thought it was fishy, so he went to cash it and the bank almost cashed the check, then relized it was fake

yeah its a scam. Got almost the same email word for word when the 88 300E was listed on there. I'm expecting a few more this time around with my 500 I just listed.

I've had three of those. I always play along and waster their time. I ask more questions and lead them in circles- it ends up to be bit of fun for me and frustrating for them. Anyone that wants to send full price for the car w/o seeing it is either a kook or a scam POS.

Thanks, that's what I figured but thought I would check. I think I'll have some fun and have him send me the check to my ;) work address...

Lt. Dick Ruggert
Boston Police Department
40 New Sudbury St
Boston, MA

I'll make sure I get that tracking number too.

:smartass:

lmao, good one!

That's great! You'll be able to hear him gulp hard and backpedal through his followup e-mail. Uhhh, there's been a family emergency that requires my immediate attention or something or other. Do it just to see what his escape route looks like.

oh yeah Lt., please do it and keep us apprised!

That's funny stuff. I once received a scam offer.

I am a prosecutor so I had them send the check to my office, care of the Major Fraud Division.

I never heard from them again.

http://www.419eater.com/

Awesome!!! Africa's biggest pastime(scamming) could flip-flop into America's biggest pastime- Scambaiting! Fun for the whole family!!!

Check the link out and see how hilarious baiting those idiots can be. An ENTIRE culture, growing up scamming or trying to scam people. Some kids over there even believe it's a legitimate way to make a living! If you go to the Embassy of Nigeria website, they even have the audacity to blame Americans for being greedy and causing the proliferation of these 419/Advance Fee scams.

'This warning is, therefore, specifically intended for the benefit of those misguided people who, in the quest to make easy money at the expense of Nigeria, are defrauded by international fraudsters.'

You can bet if I ever have to deal with a scumbag like that, I am going to milk it for all it's worth.

What 500?