Does this sound fishy?

[BlazeMaster]

Hi, I'm selling my B&W PV1 and I have a "buyer" interested and giving me offers that seems a little bit too good to be real. Here's what she replied:

Thanks for your mail, well i'm proud to let you know that i will be sending you the payment in (US) money order which will be handle through bidpay online,and after payment went through you will receive a confirmation mail from bidpay about the payment sent,once i receive the confirmation mail here too,i will like to offer you a fedex pre-paid shipping slip which i have registered with fedex courier service and note that upon the slip pasted there is no shipping cost for you,i will like to offer ($1200.00) for the *(B&W PV1)* and send me the full payment info so i can proceed with the payment that we can close the auction and have the shipment asap,hope you will like this offer.waiting for your quick response,and hope to have some other business with you in nearest future.thanking you in anticipation,if it is ok by you get back to me on time,and send me your full information so i can continue with the transaction okay.Hope to hear from you soon...Thanks & (Best Regards) "Cheers".

[tboooe]

this is definitely fishy! i have heard about this scam before. he/she is trying to get your information.

dont do it unless they will agree to pay you through paypal or money order and DONT give out your information!

[aud19]

What's the matter, speaker smells fishy from too much "bass"...?


:rofl: :rofl: :B :rofl:

Seriously though...

Do not accept a money order or any cashier's cheques etc IMO. (Believe me, I know :evil: )

Paypal or an envelope stuffed with cash that you've confirmed with your bank isn't funny money before shipping anything. That's it.

[BlazeMaster]

ya figured it had a little bit of the fishy scent. I've heard that even with PayPal, the buyers can dispute those purchases by claiming that they never made that purchase and they can take the money back from the seller months later.

[misterdoggy]

Blazemaster,
I have an internet business and this sounds like a scam. next they will tell you that they are buying for a client and you will get a check for more than the amount. That you should pay them the difference only "after" you have been paid. Only its with a bad credit card that hasn't been reported. You get the money but it takes 3 months for them to take it back from the stolen credit card. Mean while you've sent money and they cashed it out. Avoid buyers from Indonesia and Asia and Africa. You can send me info if you want advice.

Best
Bruce

[nyny]

BlazeMaster, that definitely look fishy to me. I sold a bunch of stuff through Craig's List and have encountered similar "lines" many times. The way I see it, people who want to buy second hand stuff online are not going to spend the time to write such an elaborate email (with such formality) discussing about payment. People care more about whether the unit still works. To me, these emails look so canned that I don't even bother to read them and simply delete them.

Good luck!

[ti33er]

lol, stoopid ScAmMmMmer...these bastards really waste one's time on eBay - if you listed with a BUY IT NOW option and they "buy" it you have to re-list and go through the whole rigmarole of getting credit back from eBay etc. which is painful and very annoying - they also get your damn details when they "opt" to pay you immediately afterwards!

I read about some scammer a little while ago that got reverse-scammed by the seller - the seller caught onto the scam and sent this guy a hilarious home made Apple laptop made out of hardboard and convinced him to pay a big whack of the import duty on it (i.e. duty on a real one) which was non-refundable...wish I could find that link again for a laugh!
:rofl:

[ti33er]

hehe here it is ...http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

...maybe you can send him a football full of compost!

[nyny]

hehe here it is ...http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

...maybe you can send him a football full of compost!

That's too funny! :rofl: Hope that taught the scammer a lesson.

[Lex]

Definitely a scam/fraud attempt

[PewterTA]

I'd say let them send you the money order and tell them you won't send the unit until the money order clears... once you have the money... mwaaa ha ha ha ha. :twisted: :rofl:

[aud19]

I'd say let them send you the money order and tell them you won't send the unit until the money order clears... once you have the money... mwaaa ha ha ha ha. :twisted: :rofl:

Not worth the almost guaranteed NSF fees

[RobP]

What happens there is they send you a money order and then they say that they over paid, oops! well then they say just send back the amount of the overpayment. Well a few days later, you get a call from the bank telling you that you cashed a fake money order and you end up eating it. Stay away, run!!

[BlazeMaster]

thanks guys....i thought it was fishy when i got the message, but just wanted some opinions. It seems like everyone agrees with me...ya...i'm in the process of avoiding her/him. Be careful though guys, this is from a post off Audiogon, that means the scammers know about Audiogon. Sell/buy carefully next time

[misterdoggy]

Here's what you'll get !!

[Rolex]

Can you post this guy's username from audiogon, so we can watch out for him there as well?

[Lex]

The scammers know about A-gon, ebAy etc... typically they are non members replying to ads, or they are members and use their membership just to gain information where to email you. These are not stupid people. Granted, they are usually people with broken sounding english in a real conversation, but they are slimy smart.

Always avoid having contact info in the post itself, make them come through the system to get your email address, this deters some of this. They seek the posts with public info so they go slithering through the Agon system without even being a part of it.

[dortiz]

Off topic for Lex,
M3 forum?

I drive an 02.

Cheers :T

[BlazeMaster]

well I've gotten several different "users" like this trying to contact me every time I have something over $1000 listed. And each time it's with a different user name, so I doubt giving you guys the user name would help at all. Like Lex said, they are usually people with broken English and they never really seem to care about the condition that the gear is in, always trying to get your physical address and are usually non-members from A'gon or V'gon. Those are the things that I'd avoid from now on.

[classefan]

hehe here it is ...http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

...maybe you can send him a football full of compost!

Thanks for posting this, i have not laughed so hard in a while.

It is a total scam. I sell online and see these kinds of emails every day. Avoid it.