Norman Verona Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Usually find the draft is for £1000 more which they ask you to pay the transport company with. The draft will be a forgery and will be debited after about 6 weeks when it wings its way back from the "issuing" bank. I know someone who lost a £50,000 Range Rover by this method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wile E. Coyote Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I know someone who lost a £50,000 Range Rover by this method. Did the insurance pay out - must be viewed as fraud? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenh Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 The origionating IP address should be in the message header, use hexillion or similar and it will "probably" tell you from where the mail origionates I was told by a policeman that a lot of these scam emails actually can be traced to internet cafes in Spain. Don't know for sure, just what I was told. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 No insurance payout. He sold the car and paid out £1000 to the transporter company. He was a bit suspicious when they turned up in an old Transit transporter and told him they were taking the car to a depot where it would be on a "proper" transporter to take to Spain. I can't remember why but South Africa was involved, it had nothing to do with Spain. The car has never been found and he is £50,000 worst off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Doesn't insurance for theft only tend to cover you if they actually break in to the car and take it away, or break in to the house etc. and get the keys. I was always under the impression that if you were effectively conned out of it and handed the keys over, you were basically f*****. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Yes, in a nutshell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkyboy5 Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 after persistent questions from my self about ringing me and her details (addresses and shipping company details) I get this response.... Good morning, Thanks for your response and i really appreciate that from you am so excited that you've made up your mind to sell the vehicle to me and as for the price which is pretty good for the lovely vehicle. I shall send you all my personal details as soon as i have yours, so that you may be able to fill the V5 LOG BOOK. The shipping company would sign on my behalf all the new keeper section of the Registration Certificate before the vehicle leaves your possession. The payment will be made to you as soon as i have all the details below. I really want you to count on me that you shall receive the payment within 72HRS from tomorrow, Never mind my husband would ring you as soon as his back into the country i just want to consider the deal is done before his arrival. The vehicle would ONLY be released and the title documents handed over once your bank has confirmed the cleared funds. Same day your bank has confirm the payment is cleared you deduct your asking price first and the balance left with you and withdraw that in cash and after you must 've deduct the amount i offered you for the vehicle which is £6,800 out of the total amount deposited. The funds left you take it to any nearby local western union agency around you and send it to the shipping company. I shall provide you their details as soon as the money is CLEARED into your bank account. I 'll giving you £200 for your efforts and western union charges out of the shipping agent money all the shipping expenses would be my responsibility. The shipping company and my mechanic would make use of the funds left to come down to your location for the pick up arrangements i.e shipping expenses as import duties and tax. The shipping company would come along with his proof of his identity i:e international passport and driving license. So right now am going to instruct my business associate to send you a bankers draft in total sum of £11,000 in your name and it's going to be post to you via postal mail which had already cover your asking price. It would have been very possible to get two separate bankers draft one for your money and the other the shipper's, but this would have been possible if the shipper are getting bankers draft as form of payment. They have huge deposit of bankers draft at their banking house which are yet to be cleared through, so that's why they want their funds in liquid form of cash and more importantly, I have learnt from past shipment, that any transactions paid to a shipping company inform of cash they work pretty faster on those shipment. I'll need your data for the BANKERS DRAFT, viz; FULL NAME.. POSTAL ADDRESS.. MOBILE PHONE #... LAND PHONE # Pls mail me today to let me know the vehicle is SOLD to me, and remove the advert from the website Thanks for selling to me. Many thanks Brenda Go do one Brenda!!!!! lol Researched it and found out it is a scam that is being widley used right now. Please spread the word!!! Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Dan, it's been used for the past 5 years at least. Suppose they only need one to fall for it a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkyboy5 Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 yeh guess your right norman Next they will be booking your accommodation when its booked without telling me Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Funny you say that. PM on the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M444TTB Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 String them along a little longer for a laugh. May save someone less worldly from falling for it of they are busy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeb_444 Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 some amusing stuff on here baiting the scammers !! but you do need to know what you are doing !! http://www.419eater.com/ Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Just be carefull... There are some nasty people involved sometimes, and don't forget, this isn't a "remote" scam, where you send stuff and never see goods or your money, this is an up close and personal scam that would involve them (or their associates) coming and personally taking some of the money and the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreigM Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Just be carefull... There are some nasty people involved sometimes, and don't forget, this isn't a "remote" scam, where you send stuff and never see goods or your money, this is an up close and personal scam that would involve them (or their associates) coming and personally taking some of the money and the car. I'd agree with this - just either ignore or just say you're not interested...they'll move on to someone else.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I had one that informed me that I could share £20 million. It was so the children of the so called deceased could get a UK education. I replied that I could have a word with my friend Jack Straw and get them UK passports. They only needed to send me £2000 for each child and I could buy the passports from Jack who was the home Secretary. They responded about all the money the father had left which I could help get out of the country so I responded that if they sent me the £10,000 I could get the passports they needed. This went on for a while then it went very quiet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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