Hi,

I got an email from somebody I thought was from a forum that I've posted on to sell my car, interested in my car for sale so I emailed them back saying the lowest price I'd accept but the email they've sent me back is quite suspicious of a con.

Here's the email:

Hello,

Thanks for your transparency and the Email

regarding my offer,I just contacted my client about

the cost of the item which is

That sounds a little familiar.

Isn't this the one where they ask you to cash the cheque for them. When you give them the money, forgetting ot let the cheque clear, they disappear into ther sunset never to be seen again. Then the cheque bounces.

I wouldn't go near this with a barge pole. You're ahead of a lot of people by spotting the con straight off.

It's a scam.

Ignore the e-mail and do not give them any personal information.

Just tell them you've sold the car to someone else if they keep pestering you.

Scam. It's a money laundering scheme. Anything involving western union transfers is a scam. Anything involving Nigerians is a scam as the vast majority are deeply dishonest.

whoooooooooooo! steer (excuse the pun) well clear of that one!

Agree with all the above.

It's about as straight as one of Jason's EBay auctions

It's a variation of this:

http://www.buy-and-sell-car-secrets.com/nigerian-car-scam.html

Definate scam, loads of these about at the moment. :(

Scam.

It's a scam.

It's always a scam

Scam,avoid like the plague!!!!

send a email back telling him you know what he's trying to pull and to "**** off you thieving lowlife"

As the others have said, this an out and out scam. Have nothing to with it at all. Suggest you just delete the email. On NO account give any personal information.

See www.419eater.com for more info.

Andyc

Agree with all the above.

It's about as straight as one of Jason's EBay auctions

Mine are always straight as an arrow. :P

Cue pointing at signature... Now got a neon CPU fan on there too. Bling!

Mine are always straight as an arrow. :P

Cue pointing at signature... Now got a neon CPU fan on there too. Bling!

You don't want to tell us what IKEA light your selling on the net as none of us can regonise it

To be honest, would you even begin to trust someone who sends you an email that has:

a) poor spelling, grammar and punctuation

A strange mixture of UK and Americanisms (

To be honest, would you even begin to trust someone who sends you an email that has:

a) poor spelling, grammar and punctuation

A strange mixture of UK and Americanisms (

Cheers for all the feedback.

I knew it was a scam as soon as I read it. Plus I'd never deal with someone who has to go through someone else and when they said they were sending me a cheque and to wire the rest was the most obvious give away. I just like to have some reassurance and it's good for future referrence if anybody else receives anything similar.

Cheers again