Scam Tip Report #4894 - car Sale
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| Kai Kopsala
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2012-09-05 00:22:57
Classified Ads Scam
Gumtree |  +2 car Sale I am selling a car on Gumtree and rec;d a txt message from this Helvis Datford stating he wished to buy the car. My first suspicions came when i rec\'d the same txt from 2 different mobile numbers approx\' 10 minutes apart. The message asked for me to contact him via email (address listed above).
No sooner had i hit the send button on the email i rec\'d a lengthy reply stating that his is off shore working on an oil rig and he asked for my Paypal details to credit the funds. Immediately i thought this is a Hoax as he would had to have been sitting at a computer and how would he have known at that precise time I was going to send an email to him. 1st he would have had to open up the email, read it then send a reply and the length of the reply was to big to have been written so quickly, regardless of your typing speed.The reply email i rec\'d was sent 1 minute after i had sent my initial email to him. SO I HOPE PEOPLE USE A LITTLE BIT OF COMMONSENSE AND DON\'T FALL FOR THESE TYPES OF SCAMS. No matter how desperate you are to sell. |
Follow Ups/Extra Information. Most recent is listed first.
| Shinelle (Spokane, WA, United States) Added the following extra information on :2012-09-08 19:20:58 |
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I received a text about a car I had posted, in the text it asked me to email him about the car. I did and similar to other people's post here, he said that he was on an oil rig and wanted the car.
| Shinelle (Spokane, WA, United States) Added the following extra information on :2012-09-08 19:20:54 |
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I received a text about a car I had posted, in the text it asked me to email him about the car. I did and similar to other people's post here, he said that he was on an oil rig and wanted the car.
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