A word of warning

[MIKEASHTON]

I have recently put a friends car up for sale, and have been e-mailed by a 'chung lee [mmmramp@usa.com]' using the old ruse of offering to send you a cheque of a higher value than the item for sale is worth, then asking you to forward the balance on to the shippers.

I will like to send you a cheque as the form of payment,but I am currently not in the country.I will instruct my client who is owing me 11,300 pounds to send a cheque to you.When you get the funds,you will deduct your money and send the balance to my shipper who will take care of the shipping.So get back to me with your full name,address and phone number so I will send  it to him to make the cheque to you.

This works in the following way, you recieve a cheque for say £11,000, but your item is only worth £7000, so your suppose to send a cheque onto the shippers woth £4000.  Some unsuspecting person may send the £4000 on without waiting for the £11,000 one to clear, in which case you'll be out £4K as the £11K one will bounce.  Also the shipper will be a friend and will cash your £4K cheque, and you'll loose this money.

Do not fall for this, and do not reply to the e-mail above.  It may not be the same address, but the scam is the same, so don't fall for it.

[Muttleys V8]

Mike

Trying to sell my car at the moment, this guy is offering the asking price.....

Thanks for the advice.

Steve

[oioi]

why not string them along and cash the cheque? - having said that i would be surprised if they ever sent a cheque as that would be traceble.

if they do send a cheque at least they will get the fine the bank normally charges for writing bad cheques.

[Matt Seabrook]

why not string them along and cash the cheque? - having said that i would be surprised if they ever sent a cheque as that would be traceble.

if they do send a cheque at least they will get the fine the bank normally charges for writing bad cheques.

If the cheque belonged to them

[S8ight]

or if you think it is dodgy, get them to send me a cheque, i'll cash it, keep the money  and you get to keep the car    

[Muttleys V8]

Is it worth while informing Officer Dibble???

[MIKEASHTON]

Mr S8ight, are we to assume that you'll forward the appropriate amount onto the seller in question, less of course a small percentage for your illicit act.

[Tony wright]

Thanks for the advise

I too am selling my westfield and have today received an e-mail from Chung Lee asking me what my bottom figure would be. Although I have replied but not given any details of address etc. I shall not be entertaining Mr Lee and his offer.

Thanks again

Tony

[Nick M]

Tell them to f**k off.

The cheque / money order / bankers draft will all be forged / stolen and while the money may show up in your account briefly it will soon be withdrawn by the bank.

This was on the Autotrader web-site a little while ago, and may still be there.

[S8ight]

Mr S8ight, are we to assume that you'll forward the appropriate amount onto the seller in question, less of course a small percentage for your illicit act.

you assume wrong    i'll scarper with the lot  

[Mrs Westy]

The cheque / money order / bankers draft will all be forged / stolen and while the money may show up in your account briefly it will soon be withdrawn by the bank.

Aaah, so that's how it works, I had often wondered...

We had similar thing from someone who "had a buyer" in the Dutch Antilles.  It was obviously an automated email where the words "2000 smart car" had been added in as appropriate.  It seemed to automatically generate the next reply in the conversation based on the subject line.  

So we messed with their system and replied, but changed the subject line  

[Fast Westie]

I got contacted by him as well from Findit

[stew72]

I got one of these too. Easy to tell it was dodgy, would you want to ship a £700 Golf cabby to the states?