warning please read this

[paul the red robin]

hello everyone
i feel i must let as many of you know as poss if you are moving on to OZ and are planning on selling things ie cars, motorbikes anything for alot of money that is for sale on the internet be very careful there are mant SCAMS out there i myself almost fell for one the story is to long to go into but all the help you need you can find on www,scambusters419.co.uk
thanks paul
P.S if it seems to good to be true it means it is,nt

[claire&fred]

Hi Paul

Thanks for that. We were very nearly scammed last year when selling our car in the Autotrader. I reported it to Police who did not give a toss and had a real go at the Autotrader as their advice on "scams" was crap. We nearly lost our car and alot of money. so thank you for warning people.

We are selling our car on there again, but will find it really hard to trust anyone.

Claiore

[gemmahey]

I've had this happen to me, fortunatly i didn't fall for it!
But some poor buggars do!
I had a total of 5 people email me offering me 3 grand over the asking price and they would pay by a cheque that they would wait to clear before they ask you to pay the shipping! As if! (p.s the cheque never clears )
In the end I responded with telling them to **** ***!!!!
They were doing my head in!

[donovan]

Originally Posted by gemmahey

I've had this happen to me, fortunatly i didn't fall for it!
But some poor buggars do!
I had a total of 5 people email me offering me 3 grand over the asking price and they would pay by a cheque that they would wait to clear before they ask you to pay the shipping! As if! (p.s the cheque never clears )
In the end I responded with telling them to **** ***!!!!
They were doing my head in!

they tried to do the same to us, they sent me a bankers draft (which we all know is supposed to be as good as cash, anyway could see it was a fake reported to the police and as you say they were not interested, so in the end did the same as you and told them to **** off

Sarah x

[paul the red robin]

hi all
it seems its the same sort of scam and yes the police did,nt really seem to care just glad i never fell for it
paul