MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: brough74 on August 22, 2012, 05:20:27 pm
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Hi im currently selling a car on autotrader (dont worry im keeping the GTI) the person has said he has sent the funds to paypal but ive had a message off paypal ? says the funds wont be realeased until i pay an agent his money too (as he is collecting the car to drop it off to its new owner).
Considering his money for collecting the car is £1000 it feels like a scam to me.
Has anyone heard about this or not ? the only thing ive had off the buyer is emails etc he has not viewed the car only pics
And he is very impatient when i dont answer his email striaght away
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Scam.... if something doesnt sound right, walk away!
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Scam.
You pay the agent and the agent takes the car. I imagine they then put in a dispute with paypal and get the funds returned. It's a variation on this:
http://www.whatcar.com/car-advice/selling/used-car-selling-scams/3369752
Or they simply don't turn up after you've given then £1k.
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I would not be up for that if I'm honest. Refund the money and walk away.
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Ask PayPal to verify the email is genuine?
Not being funny, but why would you take PayPal on a car being collected? You're setting yourself up for a fall, in my opinion. You should only take cash (get him to pay it in to verify genuine notes!!) or a cleared cheque.
If/when he gets the car and opens a dispute, then PayPal will likely refund him from your account as you have no proof of delivery (as far as I know, only a tracking number is accepted).
Anyhow, seems really iffy.
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SCAM!!!! :fighting:
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It's a common scam.
They usually say it has buyer protection and some crap like that.
The email won't be from PayPal they want you to release the car saying that once they get it they will confirm with PayPal all is well and PayPal will release the funds to you.
Definitely a scam
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Never heard of this one, but SCAM!!
As above, the email will most likely not be from Paypal so don't reply to that email WHATEVER YOU DO. Log in to your own account directly and see what's what. Bet they have no knowledge of said transaction.
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And he is very impatient when i dont answer his email straight away
....Sounds like he can't wait to make off with your money. Scammers usually are impatient.
There's a famous case of someone 'scamming' some Nigerian scammers.
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I'd never take a paypal payment for a car. Walk away now while you still can!!
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Ask the police for advice and then you'll have something for the insurance company if it turns out to be rotten!
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Ask the police for advice and then you'll have something for the insurance company if it turns out to be rotten!
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....Whereas that might help, why get involved at all if you get even a sniff of something potentially rotten? Even if you 'win' you'll have had lots of inconvenience and worry.
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YES YES YES YES
Don't respond to anything . Tell the buyer you suspect as such . Your paypal with have no funds showing . Well known scam .
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Just walk away!!
Send him an email saying you no longer need to sell the car as you have won the Ugandan National Lottery :fighting:
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419eater.com
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Scam if ever I saw one. However instead of pointing This out as soon as possible to your "buyer" why not have some fun with them? I had a few offers like this when selling a previous car. I promised the money so so many times to them, tried to sound as gullible as they come and arranged many many times to pick the agent up from the airport, the the train station. Then eventually my local town. Except it wasn't. After being questioned, I suggested to the "buyer" that Glasgow was virtually right next door to Edinburgh and he might as well get the train there. I (obviously) never turned up once, and neither did he/she. In the end he got so furious I was dilly-dallying about, it was hilarious. Neither of us meant to keep any of our promises and nobody got hurt.
A massive waste of time tho, I had time to kill back then. :wink: Definite scam tho, I'll see if I can recall any old emails and compare notes with you. :happy2:
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Definite scam, email not really from paypal but made to look official and appears to have come from them, very simple to do.
You can check roughly where the email originated from by pasting the email header into here:
http://www.iptrackeronline.com/email-header-analysis.php
My money is on Nigeria
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^^^^ that's a handy tip. Will use that myself in future!
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Looks fine to me ;-), by the way I have your euro lottery winnings, can you send me £500 to cover the admin fees and I send the winnings on :-)
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SCAM...............Just reply "FOOK OFF" in an email in large text and block the guys email addy, end of.................
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if you followed a link of this email they sent you, then typed your paypal details in, i suggest going to paypals website directly and changing said details.