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Does anyone really fall for these scams???
Posted by Steve [Email] (more from Steve) on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:19:52
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I listed my 96 9000CS for sale on Saabnet and gotten three offers to buy the car.
In each case they were willing to pay my asking price and wanted to pay me with a money order or cashiers check. But, they wanted to include the cost of shipping the car overseas and would include the cost of shipping with their payment to me and I would pay the shipper from the proceeds. In each case they asked me to be sure to contact their shipper as soon as I got the money order or check.
Thanks to a warning I got from Saabnet when I listed the car I was on the alert.
In one case I am still waiting for the money order. In the other two I said I would only sell the car if they paid through Paypal. I haven't heard back.
It seems such an obvious scam that I was wondering if anyone has heard of someone who fell for the ploy and actually shipped their car, paid for the shipping costs and then found out the check was bogus.
Steve
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Posts in this Thread:
- Does anyone really fall for these scams???, Steve, Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:19:52 <-- Viewing This Message
- Demand Draft, Lea, Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:14:50
- I got my check today, Steve, Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:57:53
- You get plenty of them.., yaofeng, Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:12:23
- Re: Does anyone really fall for these scams???, Lars, Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:53:49
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