Maybe now's the time to start asking some more "technical" questions about the car.....has the master sprocket armature been recently greased etc etc...
You make your own diesel out of old pizzas - will it run on this?
Another favourite was to get the scammer to send a photograph of themselves holding a sign that said something along the lines of "I'm a pink fluffy dice". Could be hours of fun!
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Oooh, I had lots of fun with one of these when I sold my ZX7R. Strung him along and wasted his time for nearly a month before he got tired of it.
This was the old "My friend owes me £10,000 and I want to buy your bike for £4,000. My friend will send you a cheque for £10,000, you take out the £4,000 for the bike, ship it to me, and wire the balance to me" job. In other words, I will do you out of £6,000 and the bike!
The flaws in this muppet's plan were:
1) He was offering to pay £4,000 for a bike that was advertised at £3295
2) He was offering to pay £4,000 for a bike advertised at £3295 that he didn't even want to see.
These idiots must get bites, as they still try it on.
Edited by DP on 10/03/2009 at 20:43
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DP - afraid I can beat that - I got a draft for £5,000 for a £325 Fiat Uno.
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Thanks Massey. Marlot had mentioned this one earlier.
Sadly, I wish I was more patient, but my scam-baiting is about to come shortly to an end.
It doesn't look as if my friend will be getting on a plane as planned, and that ever-so-cheap Rover 75 may not be mine after all. Where did it all go wrong? Why couldn't we have learned to trust each other? I guess international businesswomen haven't got all day to mess around when there are deals to be struck.
Latest scan I sent to her, after the totally black square, and the Western Union Money Transfer .gif I downloaded and adulterated to look like a bust fax machine, is a map of Nigeria with "YOU ARE HERE" in a large font and an arrow pointing to dead centre.
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It's not a woman theterranaut, it's a man, because we all know that women are more trustworthy than men ?
Along with my previously mentioned spelling comment, your experience indicates that these people are perhaps moving their game along, and we need to keep our guard up.
I wonder what Western Union think of all this ?, can't be doing their reputation any good.
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Latest scan I sent to her after the totally black square and the Western Union Money Transfer .gif I downloaded and adulterated to look like a bust fax machine is a map of Nigeria with "YOU ARE HERE" in a large font and an arrow pointing to dead centre.
I once told one of these scammers to pretend that his name was Wayne Kerr, and to stand up in a bar and tell everyone his name very loudly.
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They are not idiots, though. It's big business, with comparatively little risk to the actual perpetrators. It could be worth the OP reporting this to his local police, since he's got a "bite". See www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/. This sort of crime is one that many laugh at - however, it does hurt many people, and lines the pockets of criminals.
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I would have been tempted to email back telling them you are an english prince who due to difficult political times in the Uk need to transfer the sum of 1 million to their account etc etc
id wet myself laughing as I typed it :-)
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Autotrader isn't the only place this happens regularly. I repot on average one car a day on Ipswich Gumtree site(I'm sure all the Gumtree sites have a similar number of scams, if not more, daily) To give Gumtree their due, they are removed very quickly.
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