Heads up! selling your whip?
03-08-2007, 04:35 AM
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Heads up! selling your whip?
Recently I was going to sell my Bullitt (vette parts) I advertised in the news paper and online. The offers started rolling in, but it was weird..... all of them said they would give me 3-5k more than what I was asking. Said they would send a Certified Bank Check. All I had to do is go to my bank, make the deposit and send a "shipping company" what was left over from what I was asking....3-5k via a Western Union so they could send someone to pick up the car. Well this sounded a bit fishy so I did a scam search through google and sure enough it is a scam. What they do is send you a fake Certified Bank Check that is routed through 10-15 banks around the globe, you make the deposit and withdraw the money to send via Western Union, someone comes and picks up your ride and 25 days later, by the time the check has made its full rotation..... its fake. So you, the victim, are out your car and the3-5k dollars that you sent ....CASH. A Soldier here got burned on his 10 speed Bicycle by this scam............. So just beware, there are ******** out there that will steal your ride and your pride right from under your nose.
Be safe and play smart.
Be safe and play smart.
03-08-2007, 04:38 AM
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RE: Heads up! selling your whip?
yea man thats a scam....as soon as u list it on autotrader that happens 100% of the time...i forget its name, the nigerian scam i think...not sure.....but what they do is say they will give u a check for over and you just cut them the difference like 3000 dollars, but there check never clears....good heads up though!
03-08-2007, 10:29 AM
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RE: Heads up! selling your whip?
Happens every time I sell a car on Autotrader. I will pretend I'm gonna sell the car to them just to screw with the idiots. The sad think is that it must work every once and a while because they keep doing it
03-08-2007, 04:40 PM
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RE: Heads up! selling your whip?
Happened to my fried that was sellling his CBR to someone overseas as well. He got a check for like 3,000 over. He even waited 10 days for his bank to confirm the check cleared before making the shipping arrangements.Few days laterhe dropped off the bike at the shipping company he went to the bank to have a cashiers check made out to the guy. They told him he was overdrawn. Luckily he was able to cancel the shipping. he almost lost his bike and $3,000.
03-08-2007, 05:45 PM
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RE: Heads up! selling your whip?
ORIGINAL: tool fan
Recently I was going to sell my Bullitt (vette parts) I advertised in the news paper and online. The offers started rolling in, but it was weird..... all of them said they would give me 3-5k more than what I was asking. Said they would send a Certified Bank Check. All I had to do is go to my bank, make the deposit and send a "shipping company" what was left over from what I was asking....3-5k via a Western Union so they could send someone to pick up the car. Well this sounded a bit fishy so I did a scam search through google and sure enough it is a scam. What they do is send you a fake Certified Bank Check that is routed through 10-15 banks around the globe, you make the deposit and withdraw the money to send via Western Union, someone comes and picks up your ride and 25 days later, by the time the check has made its full rotation..... its fake. So you, the victim, are out your car and the3-5k dollars that you sent ....CASH. A Soldier here got burned on his 10 speed Bicycle by this scam............. So just beware, there are ******** out there that will steal your ride and your pride right from under your nose.
Be safe and play smart.
Recently I was going to sell my Bullitt (vette parts) I advertised in the news paper and online. The offers started rolling in, but it was weird..... all of them said they would give me 3-5k more than what I was asking. Said they would send a Certified Bank Check. All I had to do is go to my bank, make the deposit and send a "shipping company" what was left over from what I was asking....3-5k via a Western Union so they could send someone to pick up the car. Well this sounded a bit fishy so I did a scam search through google and sure enough it is a scam. What they do is send you a fake Certified Bank Check that is routed through 10-15 banks around the globe, you make the deposit and withdraw the money to send via Western Union, someone comes and picks up your ride and 25 days later, by the time the check has made its full rotation..... its fake. So you, the victim, are out your car and the3-5k dollars that you sent ....CASH. A Soldier here got burned on his 10 speed Bicycle by this scam............. So just beware, there are ******** out there that will steal your ride and your pride right from under your nose.
Be safe and play smart.
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