Think its a scam?

[andrewsmith]

Think is a scam?
I'm thinking it is. Here are the email conversation so far. It started with the text

Originally Posted by buyer as text

What's lowest price of ur Motorbike ? plz email through XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX email only tnx

Originally Posted by Me

Hi
The lowest price would be 1200
The bike is going for its MoT this morning. Tax is until April on a paper disc

Originally Posted by buyer

Thanks mate for your details,the asking price & conditions is ok
l'm buying it for my son as a gift ,I won't be able to Inspect due to
the nature of my work overseas, would 've love to call in person
but satellite server has been down which restrict calls,l'm presently
working on offshore as a petroleum engineering.
Regarding your payment, Plz get back to me with your paypal
details in order for me to make payment to you cos that my only
method of payment, my courier will contact you for pick it up and
deliver it in my place after payment has been made to you.

Would appreciate if you can email me any pictures of it (if available)
Plz send PayPal details for me to send money to you ASAP.

What do you think?
Think I should drag it out for a laugh on or bird him off?

[Red Herring]

All he needs to pay you by PayPal is your e-mail address. What else can he do with that?
I suppose he could pay you, then after you give the bike to the "courier" he could claim they were nothing to do with him, he didn't get the bike, and open a dispute?

[andrewsmith]

yup

Bit of google attacking show the phone number with 3 different email addresses yesterday

[oldeboi]

That particular scam has been doing the car forums for years.
You could do a bit of winding up tho.

[andrewsmith]

Now time for some inspiration..

Paging Mavi

[maviczap]

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[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Red Herring

All he needs to pay you by PayPal is your e-mail address. What else can he do with that?
I suppose he could pay you, then after you give the bike to the "courier" he could claim they were nothing to do with him, he didn't get the bike, and open a dispute?

It'll be Western Union or a cheque, Red. If its Paypal, I guess he'll raise a dispute & the seller doesn't get much of a chance, as Paypal tend to favour the buyer in disputes on EBAY items

The buyer will give you a cheque drawn on a foreign bank A/C, you'll pay it in to your bank. After a few days the UK bank will clear the funds into your A/C.

So you are happy and hand everything over

But when the overseas bank receives the cheque to pay the UK bank back, there's no funds in the buyers account to pay. This can take place 2 weeks after the handover of the keys and you vehicle is long gone.

That's how the cheque fraud works I think, I can't remember how the Western Union one works, its slightly different.

Anyway give Jeff or Dave my regards

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...ht=scam&page=4

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by oldeboi

That particular scam has been doing the car forums for years.
You could do a bit of winding up tho.

See my old thread

[andrewsmith]

I might string him not sure yet

[maviczap]

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