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Is this genuine? what you think?



  Roadster Coupe
I'm selling my ph2 172 and I recieved an email the other day off this guy aksing to buy my car. do you think this email looks genuine?

"
Hi michael

Thanks for taking your time for the mail and am also excited to hear from you the car is still available for sale and thanks for the information you just gave about the car and am quite delighted to hear from you the car is still in immaculate conditions Please i don't meant to be rude to you at this point i should be convience this car is genuiely owned by you and i hope all the relevant papers document is fully completed and available as well just for safety sale assurance.

Really am getting the car unbehalf of my dear wife whom i just got married with two weeks ago.She is from uk in scoltland.Presently she is in toronto canada my native country.
As you will quite agree with me in uk they use to right hand drive and over there in canada we are use to left hand drive.She really find it soo difficult to drive my personal car which i left for her due to the position of the steering and she wouldn't want to risk her life to drive my car.Therefore she instructed me to buy her a uk car which she is normally used to drive in scoltland.

Right now she needed a car due to the distance from her working place to house is about an hour drive.

Am sure she will be delighted have got one for her and am counting on you now to consider the car sold to me most expecially for my wife sake.

Without taking much time i should be arranging for the payment and shipping process right away hopefully before this week runs down.

Please i want you to email me more pictures if is still available both the exterior and interior i would really appreciate that soo much because it would not be possible for me to come for the viewing due to my course programme in wales and as for the price i will offer you £5700 just becuase i know the worth of the car and moreso what you' ve stated about the car details in the advert and in additional including the advert charges you've spent soo far .

Am quite satisfied what you've mention soo far about the car and as for the shipping cost you have nothing to worry about ok!! i will take care of that myself have already consult a private maritime shipping company who's going to handle it professionally for me both the shipping cost and other necessary development concerning the shipment of the car such as cost of insurance,bill of lading and custom charges etc,because the car will be finally ship to canada.Apart from the car being shipped at your location there is other consignments he need to ship for me some state in uk but have made it clear to him your location will be his first arrival before moving to any other destination .

However,as for the payment am paying you a united kingdom bankers draft(GBP) issue by uk bank base which am going to instruct my business associate to send you a bankers draft via post mail.The bankers draft is going to clear in any bank in united kingdom my bank advised and it will take maximum of 2 to 3 days working days to FULLY CLEARED INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT FOR VERIFICATION BY YOUR BANK MANAGEMENTS and once you've confirm the payment clearance and the money is finally available in your bank account the car should be hand over to the shippingagent and papers document aswell once they arrive your location. Am from canada but presently located in uk wales on course programmes.

Thanks soo much and i really appreciate your efforts for taking your time to response to my enquiry.Hopefully to hear back from you today in order to proceed further with the payment and shipping arrangements as soon as possible. I look forward to hear back from you today.

Cheers...

Timothy."
 
  Leon Cupra R 225
Are you being serious? I'd never ever believe anything like that.. you been watching fonejacker on E4?

"I require your bank account details to access your moneys..."


*Delete the email mate* ;)
 
  a burnt one
Sounds dodgy to me, surely if hes canadian he will have a better grasp of basic english? he sounds like a member of cliosport with that.:rasp:

Offer to meet him in Wales at a time and location suitable to him, im pretty sure he will back out and prove himself a true Arthur Daly.
 
  Roadster Coupe
Yeh thats what i was thinking, but he doesn;t mention needing my bank details. I'll meet him in a diff car and with my 12 gauge in the boot just in case. lol
 
  Leon Cupra R 225
fonejacker.jpg
 
  Ultra Red Clio 197
Total SCAM!!

Who would ever buy a car without even seeing it first! and be crazy enough to probably spend hundreds of pounds shipping it to canada??!! Very dodgy and seems like too much efford has been spent trying to create a story that sounds convincing when really its a total yarn/fake life story!

However I do like the idea mentioned above that you offer to meet him in wales!

Where did you have it advertised to get a nutter like that enquire about it!

Also.. why would someone go to so much hassle to get a car for their wife just because she doesnt like cars over there! unfortuntely if it was my wife she would learn to get used to it! lol...

Keep us posted!
 
  Mustang, S13, AX GT
I got bored of reading it but I doubt any-one would export a Renault to Canada, they dont have renault dealerships over there and most people over there that I met wondered why my clio didn't look like the 1s on Gran Turismo with the wide arches...
 
  306 GTI-6
he might not mention needing your bank details but i have read about these scams before.

The international cheques they use do indeed show as cleared into your bank account within 2-3 days, however the money has not actually cleared, and a few days later, even up to a few eeks, the cheque can bounce leaving you with no car, no money, and no comeback probably.

This was happeneing on ebay a couple of years ago.
 
  Artic Blue Clio 182
This is a definate scam, this thing has happened to me each time I have advertiesed a car on Autotrader, ebay or other FreeAd sites. You can always tell they are dodgy by the way they write the emails and the fact they ask you questions about the car that you would already know by reading the advert. I had one the other day asking for the asking price and if I could send him some pics....both of which were in the advert!!
Just p*ss taking scammers/timewasters!!

Stay well clear or you'll be giving your car away!! lol
 
  Suzuki SV650
I've received loads of these e-mails when I've had cars on AutoTrader, total scam.. Even received a similar e-mail trying to tell me that a long distant relative had died and millions of dollars were going to go to waste and I was the only relative they could find, they wanted my bank details so they could deposit the money into my account... WASTE OF TIME!

Thou if you e-mail him back you can string it along for a while, there was some guy a while ago who strung loads of scammers along for ages and posted up copies of all the e-mails, was really funny but can't remember the link...!
 

rctempire

ClioSport Moderator
Here is the best bit, which makes it really fake :
The bankers draft is going to clear in any bank in united kingdom my bank advised and it will take maximum of 2 to 3 days working days to FULLY CLEARED INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT FOR VERIFICATION BY YOUR BANK MANAGEMENTS
Bankers draft, great, and he is going to ship it to canada, fantastic. Total fake.


EDIT - Ask him for a phone number to talk. I doubt he would give that out.
 
  Mk4 .:R32
This happened to my mate when he advertised his car on autotrader. He got an email from someone saying they wanted it sending to Germany and they sent him a cheque for £8000 (even though the car was advertised at £4000). He rang autotrader and they told him to disguard the cheque and they were 99.9% sure it was a scam
 


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