Should i report this!?

[qube3]

Hi all, this guy has just won my minimoto for sale on e-bay, below is the e-mail i got from him regarding payment!. I have just sent him one back telling him that i do NOT wish to get involved with money transfers and to just send me a cheque (NOT PAYPAL) for the amount of the item. The item will only be released once the funds are cleared.

I have also just read (or not!) his feedback all negative (3) and he has decided to keep his feedback private. Also will he know my address as im the seller? Or does that just come up when i send an invoice?

Does anyone know how to stop the paypal option on a particular item? Does this sound like money laundering!!!!!?????????

Here is the e-mail he sent me:


Quote:
Hi,
I am happy to buy this item from you that i saw on
ebay.however, it look great and I 'm interested in
purchasing it.Concerning the shipment,my shipper will
come and pick it up from your location as soon as we
seal this transaction. A client of mine in uk is owing
me some funds (£3,400)and i have inform him about this
transaction and i will instruct him to issue the
cashier cheque in your name and once the cheque clear
in your account you will deduct the cost of the
(YAMAHA R1 REPLICA MINIMOTO}
{£150.00}and you will send my remaining balance to my
Shipper via western union money transfer for immediate
shipping arrangment. If this is okay with you do get
back to me immediately with your information as listed
below for me to instruct my client to issue the
cashier cheque in your name.Hope to hear from you
soonest.

NAME :
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
COUNTRY:
TEL NUMBER:
Best regards,
Mark.



N.B, THE CHEQUE WILL CLEAR YOUR BANK BEFORE THE
SHIPPER COME FOR THE PICK

End of Quote.

Sounds dodgy eh?
P.S. - Have not told him my address, just my name so to make a cheque payable.

[kazam401]

SCAM !!!!!!!!!

[qube3]

Thought so, basically i have said that no cleared funds via a cheque - no minimoto! I have given him 5 days to produce the goods or item is being re-listed and negative feedback left(for what good it will do)

[Guest]

Got hit with 4 of these on my Autotrader advert, don't whatever you do go with him buying it. What will happen is the funds will appear to clear in your bank account, you will send him the money and then the funds from him will bounce. You will be out over 3 grand with no way of getting it back. Report him on eBay. This takes advantage of a loophole in banking which means that even though funds have supposedly cleared, if the funds are actually bounced (cheque or dodgy cashiers cheque) then they will claw the money back from your account. By this time you will have sent the money and all will be lost.

Cheers

[That Ruddy Squirrel]

Isn't there a scam involving western Union where a cheque is used to pay for an item, and when it appears to have been cleared the goods are released, BUT the cheque has not fully cleared and wont do !!

I also belive that in these cases the seller is asked to accept a cheque for more than the payment amount, where the excess is then forwarded on - the end result being a double whammy against the poor seller !!

I am sure our old friends (if they are the right words) Watchdog featured this scam a month or so back.


Trev

[darkangel]

I have had the very same emails when I was trying to sell a foal.
Just give him a negative feed back dont get involed at all and relist it..Very slippery slope trying to get rid of them just add their address to your spam guard on email if you have on.

[qube3]

I have had the very same emails when I was trying to sell a foal.
Just give him a negative feed back dont get involed at all and relist it..Very slippery slope trying to get rid of them just add their address to your spam guard on email if you have on.

HI, just e-mailed 'him' that im not doing business and not accepting anything, there is an e-bay note to say that he is no longer registered.

What a D###head!!!

[That Ruddy Squirrel]

If you re-list put the usual "5 or more positive feedback requirements" message in the listing - it may deter the buggers.


Trev

[Snoop]

Yep, total scam - I had loads of these when I was selling my highly modified, ridiculously low street racer. One guy reckoned it was going to be shipped to mexico to appear in a film and another Benin. In the end I just used to reply straight away with the following:

**** me, I never new there was such a ludicrous worldwide market in second hand peugeots, you're the 3rd person to make such an offer. However, I'm afraid the car is going to the well known street racing city of Benin in Africa where no doubt the roads are particularly suited to a car 1/2 an inch off the floor.

Sorry your such a loser.


Make sure you report him to ebay.

[kitesurf_phil]

Hi all, this guy has just won my minimoto for sale on e-bay, below is the e-mail i got from him regarding payment!. I have just sent him one back telling him that i do NOT wish to get involved with money transfers and to just send me a cheque (NOT PAYPAL) for the amount of the item. The item will only be released once the funds are cleared.

I have also just read (or not!) his feedback all negative (3) and he has decided to keep his feedback private. Also will he know my address as im the seller? Or does that just come up when i send an invoice?

Does anyone know how to stop the paypal option on a particular item? Does this sound like money laundering!!!!!?????????

Here is the e-mail he sent me:


Quote:
Hi,
I am happy to buy this item from you that i saw on
ebay.however, it look great and I 'm interested in
purchasing it.Concerning the shipment,my shipper will
come and pick it up from your location as soon as we
seal this transaction. A client of mine in uk is owing
me some funds (£3,400)and i have inform him about this
transaction and i will instruct him to issue the
cashier cheque in your name and once the cheque clear
in your account you will deduct the cost of the
(YAMAHA R1 REPLICA MINIMOTO}
{£150.00}and you will send my remaining balance to my
Shipper via western union money transfer for immediate
shipping arrangment. If this is okay with you do get
back to me immediately with your information as listed
below for me to instruct my client to issue the
cashier cheque in your name.Hope to hear from you
soonest.

NAME :
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
COUNTRY:
TEL NUMBER:
Best regards,
Mark.



N.B, THE CHEQUE WILL CLEAR YOUR BANK BEFORE THE
SHIPPER COME FOR THE PICK

End of Quote.

Sounds dodgy eh?
P.S. - Have not told him my address, just my name so to make a cheque payable.

I reported one of these scammers and they were de-registered by eBay in just over two hours. All is not lost, however, if the second highest bidder is fairly close to the amount you wanted, you can make them a second chance offer, which saves you relisting.

[blackbess2]

scam

this matter is a scam!!!! you should report to ebay DO NOT SEND ANYTHING TO THE GUY AND DO NOT DEAL WITH HIM
I am in the police proffesion and have heard all about his at work
you will find that he will send a bankers draft that you bank will accept as cosher then you will have given him the goods and the change then you bank will find out weeks later that the cheque was crap and will take the money back off you so end result he has you goods and you money

[Danno]

this matter is a scam!!!! you should report to ebay DO NOT SEND ANYTHING TO THE GUY AND DO NOT DEAL WITH HIM
I am in the police proffesion and have heard all about his at work
you will find that he will send a bankers draft that you bank will accept as cosher then you will have given him the goods and the change then you bank will find out weeks later that the cheque was crap and will take the money back off you so end result he has you goods and you money

Yeah I heard about this dodgy bankers draft thing too. From somebody who works closely with the plod here in Southampton.

[dirtydog]

basically you have been done, I bet he had no feedback? People try and screw me all the time on eBay where I sell 90% of my trailers. One guy before had no feedback and he won and tried a dodgy scam - by a few hours later he was deregistered. I still have plenty 'o' scamers but I refuse to sell to people less than 5 pos feedback unless i have spoken to them and no probs since then, if thier emails bounce i remove thier bids! Some bidders will for example put in a £5000 bid for something worth a tenth of that....bids go up and up, they win and try and screw you.
For this reason I also now only accept PayPal or cash as I cant be bothered with all these idiots wasting my time!
At least eBay willl credit your listing fees as the bidder is no longer registered.

You can tell its a scam when your item title is listed EXACTLY the same as in thier email cos a PC makes the email around a template and inserts the title where necessary.

Good luck for next time and maybe add a disclaimer?

[TAZMAN]

Dont forget to claim back your FVF (final value fee)

[Philip]

Nigeria

After few emails, guy in Nigeria paid for a delivery of my Fuel Cats by card. I processed card through my machine and it was OK, which surprised me. I then thought it better that i call bank to have it checked. I was told that they would need to cancel my Authorisation and they would then check address etc on card. Few minutes later was told nothing matched and so wouldn't authorise it.
A few days later £2600 appeared in my account. I left it there thinking bank would take it back. 6 months later, still there, so bought premium bonds(didn't win).
A year later got call from Fraud dept and very nice guy,discovered card was issued by small bank in USA. He then told me to keep the money, as it was not HSBC's anyway and there was good chance bank in USA would not even pursue it.
All this was year and a half ago. I love HSBC
No begging letters please, money all gone on new house.