[poison ivy]

**** SCAM ALERT ****

Hey all ! In Case anyone uses Autotrader to sell a vehicle in the near future I would like to inform you of a SCAM which is generating up to 1 million a week !
Im currently selling my car and was fortunate enough to not get SCAMMED.

Unfortunately for the scammers I didnt go all the way but here is what they do ........

First you get a friendly email explaining " his " wife wants a car, in my case the guy said it was because his wife would rather use a RHD Right hand drive car to get around while in Scotland / Sweden. So the first email is rather shortg stating he ( the scammer ) wants to buy and is the car still up for sale ?!

OK .... when the second email arrives after ive told him its still for sale, I get a message saying he will pay me an extra £250 purely because he likes the car and is happy with what I have told him, Almost like a " good will " gesture so to speak !!!
Its at this stage I think .... Hmmm this guys got more money than sense.

Anyway ... Third email comes through ... Cutting all the bull**** aside about his beloved wife and how happy she is about getting a nice car LOL .. he then tells me he will send me a bankers draft for the amount of £10,500 !!! Of which probably will clear in my bank, after around 3-4 days. he specifically tells me because the vehicle needs to be shipped to his required destination I need to use around £4000 of this money to pay into a " Western Union agency " for the shipping to be sorted ! BUT THIS IS THE CATCH ..... Very soon after that money has been paid through the western union and just so you know paying money through a western union there is no trace of any funds paid through such agency ... iys untraceable money ! Anyway ... he or one of many of the scammers will be taking that money out the other side possibly within half an hour of me depositing the funds ! After this is done your going to be 4000 grand down the drain !!! remember it wont be traceable either ... esp as the guy could be anywhere in the world !! THEN ... once the banks find out after a few weeks that the bankers draft the scammer sends is actually FORGED ... you are then accountable for that money hence a forged bankers draft is yet again money YOU HAVE LOST ! So if I went ahead and gave this punk my address for him to send me the bankers draft i would be down by over £10,000 !!!! How fukin worrying would that have been.

Was on the phone today to people from some DE-Fraud number and they knew exactly what I was going to say !!
Apparently there are ALOT of people sitting at internet cafe's frauding people out of pocket just like I have explained above !

They are not interested in cars whatsoever ... The scammer would end all contact with you straight after you pay REAL money into some western uinion which as mentioned is untraceable funds for him then to get mess with someone else !!

So just to clarify ... once his forged bankers draft ( which looks VERY lagit ) clears in your bank ... thats REAL money from the bank your using ! which you then send back to him for his so called shipping !!! LOL of what he collects and you can never get back !! Your bank is then on to you for a forged bankers draft leaving you to cough up the remaining thousands of his so-called lagitimate bankers draft !
By the way these bankers drafts they send out are VERY VERY good forged copies hence why banks do not pick up on this straight away !!!

So to anyone who uses Auto-trader best advice I would give is to NOT add your email address hence how all this started !

Im just pleased this came to a stop before I was thousands of pounds out of pocket !!!

Hope this helps ... and remember ........ I end on this below ....

IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ........ IT PROBABLY IS !

[Mygeeto]

thanks for the heads up.
i would go to jail for killing someone who tried something like that with me. no shit. i have to be careful for my sake and thiers.

[Freak]

Great post poisonivy!

[poison ivy]

Originally Posted by Mygeeto

thanks for the heads up.
i would go to jail for killing someone who tried something like that with me. no shit. i have to be careful for my sake and thiers.

Hey no problem mygeeto !

Unfortunately I was targeted by this scamming operation because im currently selling my car !!

The shocking truth of it is that I could have easily of been scammed out of thousands ! Their emails sound and seem incredibly genuine.
These people bring in up to 1 million sterling a week from having loads of these scammers sitting in internet cafe's targeting the next person !

Police cant do shit about it as there is no trace of the money YOU SEND or of the scammer which really makes things more fustrating !

[poison ivy]

Originally Posted by thefreak350

Great post poisonivy!

Thanks m8 ! Although I didnt fall for this scam i would hate to think of people losing thousands of their hard earned cash !!

REMEMBER, never deposit money into a western union because thats what these scammers NEED you to do once the very good looking fake bankers draft has cleared. ! This way they receive UNTRACEABLE money they can run with hence leaving you out of pocket, and owing money to the bank because of a fake bankers draft !

[kenney]

nice detective work man! haha i would rep you but i gotta spread some lol

[poison ivy]

Originally Posted by kenney666

nice detective work man! haha i would rep you but i gotta spread some lol

Nooooo lol ... well maybe someone else can rep me on your behalf ?? LOL !

J/K ... thanks anyway

[Beefcake]

Thanks for the heads up mate!

[julio40]

YOO GOOD POST BRO

[poison ivy]

Originally Posted by julio40

YOO GOOD POST BRO

Beefcake ... No probs !

Julio40 ... Thanks ! I try to be as specific as I can when explaining such scams lol ! A deff thing to keep notice if your selling a vehicle !

[echoscot]

Yepp, all for making Scamming and Identity Theft eligible for Capital Punishment. Death by beating and let the victims have the first swing....

[poison ivy]

Originally Posted by echoscot

Yepp, all for making Scamming and Identity Theft eligible for Capital Punishment. Death by beating and let the victims have the first swing....

hear hear lol.

No seriously your right ... If you had the choice to be face to face with a scammer who conned you out of thousands .... Will leave that to your imagination ! Would not be pretty !