I'm selling a car and have been emailing with a potential buyer. Today I received this email. Sounds fishy to me. Thank you for your immediate response and for the information. Just so you know... After more discussion with my wife, I would like to buy from you simply because it is below the market value. In order to further express my continued interest, I would like you to give me the RIGHT OF FIRST PURCHASE & REFUSAL by accepting a Non-Refundable Earnest Down Payment of $1000. This $1000 will serve as a Good-Faith Deposit towards the purchase price and as a standby commitment from me to buy from you so that you can be able to 'HOLD' the vehicle for me in the meantime pending the completion of the pre-purchase inspection exercise and appraisal which will be scheduled to take place this week by a reputable agent who will be coming down to your place in due course of requirement ASAP. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to the fact that I will be out of town on business travel status and will not be able to coordinate the pre-purchase inspection exercise and appraisal in person... I will be instructing my bank to include an additional funds to cover for the expenses of the pre-purchase inspection exercise and appraisal since my bank will be making all payments and finances for this transaction. The additional funds will be added to your Non-Refundable Earnest Down Payment of $1000' and it will be paid and dispersed as payment to cover for the expenses of the pre-purchase inspection exercise and appraisal as instructed. Therefore, if you are in agreement with the terms and contract to purchase... kindly forward the following information for the remittance of funds to you by my Bank in the next couple of days i.e... - PAYEE NAME I.E... YOUR NAME/THE NAME YOU WANT ON THE CERTIFIED CHECK... - THE MAILING/DELIVERY ADDRESS YOU WANT THE CERTIFIED CHECK TO BE MAILED... - YOUR CONTACT CELL PHONE NUMBER TO REACH YOU... - YOUR DIRECT CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS... Upon receipt of this information, my bank will remit and mail out the payment to you within the next 24hrs/48hrs. If you have any question, please write me back or call me. If I am not there, please leave a message and I will get back to you later. Thank you for your anticipated co-operation and and understanding.
Too verbose - who writes like that...? Ask him to wire deposit to your account and pay PPI directly to shop he will use for the PPI...
Just give him you bank account number and tell him to deposit, online, the holding deposit and PPI cost. It should show in your account the next day. Then hold the car for a week for him. That's how I bought my 430. He's trying to give you money so i can't see it being a scam. There is just easier ways to do it.
SCAM, they will send you some fake confirmation of the deposit for a larger sum because "his assistant make a mistake" or something like that and request the difference to send it back to him. Honestly these scammers should be in jail, I know it will take time from your schedule but I would get all the information I can and then report it to the cybercrime unit of the FBI, they do pursuit these kind of scams, but they need as much info as they can to prosecute it, Look at my posts in this old thread http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/456-550-575-sponsored-bradan/354427-cheap-550s.html
nobody pays you to pay the shop to perform ppi, that will seem like a conflict of interest. if anything they deal with the shop directly and you just provide the car
no real person writes/speaks like that. Yikes. Still, can't see their angle given they only get your name and address and phone. Still, this is scary...thank God these people write like a 17th century duke.
Scam for sure. Minimize any information you share. Look at this example of social engineering. The information they are requesting is plenty for identity theft or even further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7scxvKQOo
Didn't even read it. Email is much too long, preloaded with automated BS once a seller takes the bait. Get this guy on the phone lol
Just do what I do. Answer back, "if you are interested call me." You'll probably never hear from them again. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Scam, don't even bother writing back. When I was 19 or so I got pissed one guy tried to scam me like this so I wrote him an email telling him to f off and soon after some weird emails were sent out to my friends from emails that were very close to mine. I still never understood how he got my list of contacts. Regardless, I've learned to just walk away from this stuff completely. DON'T GIVE HIM ANY INFO! PS: This sounds like one of those scams where they send you more money than required then ask you for the difference back. Well it turns out the check they send you will bounce in a week or two so they get free money from you.
I've seen this about 12 times personally at this point. Doesn't matter what I'm selling. It's almost the "standard scam" email
You are joking right? THIS IS A SCAM I work in a bank we see this stuff all the time. DO NOT GIVE ANY INFO OR DETAILS OUT TO HIM Regards Michael
