gum tree scammer

[blueVP]

So i put my vp on gum tree last night and got a txt msg this morning about it.
The guy asked me to email him regarding the price so i did.
Told him i wanted $2800 and that i had spent around $5000 on it and this is the reply i just got back

Hi thanks for mailing back,I am a marine engineer on a rig offshore and do not have much time on me and i am buying this for Dad, i am at sea right now,Can i pay you $5,300 AUD for it?.I can only pay through paypal at the moment as i don't have access to my bank account online,but i have it attached to my paypal account, and this is why i insisted on using paypal to pay,all i will need is your paypal email address to make the payments,as you don't have a paypal account yet,its pretty easy to set one up at www.paypal.com.au,i will be expecting your email.I have a pick up agent that will come for the pick up after payment has been sorted Waiting to read from you soon.

his user name is jamesmith02@yahoo.com

Bloody scammers how stupid do they think we are!

[TVR-190]

sounds legit bro

[blueVP]

yeah i wonder if i could get 10k out of him

[HSV5L]

Theres tones of them out there but he does sound keen.

[Grennan]

I rekon a Nigerian prince would love to get around in a VP.

[crazyspoon05]

Scam all the way....

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1340763

[HSV5L]

Canadians on a ship ftw....

[CAPRILICIOUS WL]

SCAM.
Got the same load off sh!t story from him when I was selling my car aswell.

[pjdm1980]

Maybe his dad goes through a lot of cars! Lol

[vyhbdcalais]

They are everywhere! My son had some snoozer offer him 10k for a 180sx he had advertised for 5k if he could pay via paypal because he was on a ship & couldn't access his bank. Funny enough his father could just pop over from Darwin (we live in Victoria) with a trailer & pick the car up after all Paypal details were left via email.

[JRNZER]

Had the same scam aswel,He worked offshore and wanted to buy his elderly father a car.

[MikeCuzzy]

How kind of him to offer you $2500 more than your asking price...

[Maccas90]

These guys are so annoying!
They've tried to scam me while I was selling my ute and also when I was trying to buy one!

[cracker]

went a looked at this car last year when i asked the bloke if he was neg on price he said no because a bloke on an oil ring had offered him the asking price via email...sigh

[acex1138]

this is so ####ing common even on carsales.

[Tim Smtih]

^^Yet they keep trying, which makes me wonder how many people are buying into the scam.

[blueVP]

It's amazing how many of these scams are out there.
It would be interesting to see how many people actually fall for it.
I personally have a few family members that if they had the internet would be caught out quick smart...
Thank god they dont.

It's funny how keen they are to contact you, until you inform them the police have been contacted

[pjdm1980]

You should ask for his dads email address (just in case he says his dad hasn't got a computer) then get him to tell his dad to start a pay pal account if it's so f'n easy and give you the cash!

[acex1138]

A lot of the time they are actually trying to suss out if the sale is real.... so even responding to these emails are dangerous...

if they work out the email is active, its step one to them stealing your ID...... and then tracking you around it.

I've seen a few idiots who had their facebook details not set to private, tracked their facebook details off their email.... next thing they know they had someone copy their facebook on a different email, use it to add their friends and try and scam them.

I wondered who would ever let this happen to them and then it happened to my aunt. Bloody prick saved all her photos and stuff off her facebook that she didnt know how to set to private 6 months ago... and every few months I get a request to add from her with the old pictures.... that arent her.

[ChristinaNikita]

Lol i just got the same one....
Jame Smith jamesmith02@yahoo.com to me
show details 5:40 AM (10 minutes ago)


Hi thanks for mailing back,I am a marine engineer on a rig offshore and do not have much time on me and i am buying this for Dad, i am at sea right now,Can i pay you 4,700 for it?.I can only pay through paypal at the moment as i don't have access to my bank account online,but i have it attached to my paypal account, and this is why i insisted on using paypal to pay,all i will need is your paypal email address to make the payments,as you don't have a paypal account yet,its pretty easy to set one up at www.paypal.com ,i will be expecting your email.I have a pick up agent that will come for the pick up after payment has been sorted Waiting to read from you soon.

--- On Tue, 2/21/12, c duffy <cdduff@campus.ie> wrote:


From: c duffy <cdduff@campus.ie>
Subject: Car for sale.
To: jamesmith02@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 5:37 AM



Hi James,
the car is for sale 4,550 ono,
Thank you.

[Rufys]

For anyone wanting to scam a scammer, this is FANTASTIC!!!:

The Powerbook Prank: He wanted a Powerbook. We gave him a P-P-P-Powerbook!

It's from a while ago, but it's bloody brilliant!

[Rufys]

And this is the case of the first scammer on the planet ever, baited by the person he was trying to scam, into having a tattoo.

Welcome to the 419 Eater

[GothicKidd]

Any idea why these scammers do this? :S
I got a eMail myself trying to sell my parents car.. I don't see the point.. How's it a scam? :S

[troykinsvt]

hahah i had one guy say he wanted to purchase my item for sale ...(a moped ) i said which one and he said what else did i have for sale.... i said i had an rx7 v8 tripple turbo running on nos with 11.5 inch rims airbag kit and 3 exhausts, and also a v10 8 foot boat roughly i spent 72000 on both and he said he would pay 80k plus shipping hahahahaha he was an "oceanographer at sea and buying them for his dad LOLOLOLOLOL" just rambled bull sh*t to him then turned it against him saying i can only use western union as its a big amount he wouldnt give me any details FAILLLL

[c2105026]

When I was selling the peugeot 306 I had heaps of these. Mine appeared to originate from china.