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There is a scam going around about buying relatively high priced items (about 200 and up) ranging from car parts to entire cars. I havent gotten it from this website's for sale area but from others a number of times for a number of different items, luckily i did not fall for it. Here is what the latest Scam email said for my car audio for sale.

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Thanks for the mail i just made a contact with my client and He Agree on Your car And the condition of the car so He Agree to made out Payment to you With a Check and He will Just Issue you the check of $5,000 Which You will be expecting And as soon as Payment get to you And clear From the bank which you willl deducted your $500 out of the money Which You will be send The balance of $4,200 To my client shipper company Via moneygram or western, and than come to Your location for the pickup And keep the remaining $300 for the Inconvenecies And Running arround to clear the check, So You will Be expecting a Certifield Cashier Check of $5,0000 While You deduct Your $500 After the Payment As been clear from the bank and send the rest to my client shipper's after the deduction of the charge of the moneygram or western , i will be looking forward to read from you today with the informatiom below?
YOUR FULL NAME....
ADDRESSS...
CITY.....
ZIPCODE....
STATE...
CELL PHONE...
WORK PHONE...
HOME PHONE...
As soon as we have all these information Payment will be made out to you so i will come and look it.And dont forget to forward me some Pics so that my client can see what he can see what he his paying for?
Thanks
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One thing I have noticed in all the times i have got emails like this, is that they do not remember what theyre tryin to buy or information or pictures already sent (probably because that is not really what they are looking for).
Just a warning to everyone out there. Also of all the emails ive recieved from this guy and others, they dont seem very intelligent. The last person didnt know how to spell a single word and all emails are very unprofessional.

 
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i'll remember it because of the bad english and grammar use and it's a run on sentence like the one i am typing right now

 
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i didnt say i had good english or grammar but when he is tryin to be professional, he could try a little harder. for a forum about cars it doesnt really matter does it? im just tryin to help people that might get caught in a scam like this.

 
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****!!! I got two of these email for different cars. I first i was like ohh yeah. Good **** and he didn't bargain either. Then I was on honda-tech and they mention this same thing. So i told him to **** off. At that time I was selling two separate cars. Another sucker with a different email address said similar **** so i was like WTF this gotta be the scamm that's going around. So i just curse the **** out of him. hahhha I was fortunate.

 
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I actually replied and agreed to it to see if I can somehow catch the guy. I asked the bank about the cashiers check, and they said it was counterfeit. It hella looked real too with the hologram marks. The bank said they can't do anything, because there is no return address, and I was suppose to send the difference by western union to some other country. Don't fall for crap like this. I reported it to the police, but it's kind of out of their jurisdiction since it's out of US waters.

 
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I've received a whole bunch of emails like this from people who wish to buy my wheels and car parts from Recycler.com

 
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received a ton of those emails last summer when i had my car in autotrader.com
it is so obvious, one guy offered me 30k for my civic and even offered to pay another 2k to ship it to nigeria....most of those scams are derived from nigeria...cause there gov't/laws dont really do anything about this or something like that, it was all over the news last year

 
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If you get any of these cashiers checks or travelers checks that are fake, please let your local FBI office know about it. I know of several cases they are working on, about this kind of crap. It is how these poor 3rd world nations make money. Hopefully the idiot gives you a physical address were they can make an arrest

 
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i meant the email, not your post

 
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ohok lol sorry

 
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same here, got them from a recycler ad for wheels. They also had very bad grammer.