3 days a go i posted my jeep for sale at autotrader.com the next day i recieved a text message from a guy claiming his a car dealer and a customer of his wanting to buy my jeep. after 2 emails follows this is what he wrote:



Greetings........

Thanks for your time , effort and anticipated
co-operation .
Happy to inform you that I have concluded with my
client and he has instructed me to carry on with the
transaction,he said that I should inform you that
payment will get to you in an American cashier check of $12,300
which is a refund payment of a cancelled order earlier
made by my client.
Due to the company's policy this check has to be made
out in this amount to you because the company's policy
only allows a refund payment on one cashier check,so
you are required to deduct cost of your vehicle
$6,300 when payment gets to you and refund balance
$6,000 to my customer's shipping agent via money gram
transfer for him to be able to offset shipping
charges.
After payment has reached you and balance sent back to
THE PICKUP AGENT ,our agent will come then for the
pick up and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped to my
customer,while title papers and other necessary
documents will be signed/picked by the agent with the vehicle to my customer.

ATTENTION;
MY CLIENT HAS INSTRUCTED THAT YOU SHOULD NOT PREPARE
ANY PAPER WORKS UNTIL THE PICK UP AGENT ARRIVES AT
YOUR LOCATION WITH SOMEONE WHO IS GOING TO TEST DRIVE
THE vehicle AND VALUE THE CONDITIONS OF THE
vehicle..SO AFTER THEN THE PICKUP AGENT WILL
SIGN THE NECESSARY PAPERS ON HIS BEHALF..

PICKUP ARRANGEMENT;
PLS MY CLIENT IS MAKING THE NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS
WITH SOME SHIPPING AGENT REGARDING THE PICKUP/SHIPMENT
OF THE vehicle BUT HE ADVISED THAT AS SOON AS HE
FINISHES THE ARRANGEMENT THAT HE WILL INFORM ME ON THE
PARTICULAR SHIPPER(i.e the shipping agent's
information) WHO IS GOING TO ARRANGE FOR THE
PICKUP/SHIPMENT.

Please Confirm this whole arrangement and provide your
Name.................,Address..................... ...
and Phone Number ......................for check
payment to be made out in your name and send to you immediately
this week.
I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND...
Thanks for your time, effort and understanding...

HAVE A NICE DAY.





is this legit or im a getting scam here.

 

Looks scamtastic to me.

 

RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN!!!!!!!!!! AND THAN RUN FASTER

 

even if it's true that's way to much work to sell a friggin car. refunding $6000? sounds f-in wierd to me

when ever you sell something online, make sure you have cash in hand before any pickup/shipment. if you get a check make sure the $$$ is legit and actually clears

 

SCAM to the 3rd power

 

This is a total scam but this is what you do. Have him send the check and give him a bogus address for the car. Don't give him your phone # either. Wait to see if the check comes back as fraudulent, which it will, but if it doesn't keep the money.

 

 

That's probably as illegal as the original scam.

 

Yea but whats he going to do? Report to the police that he got scammed while trying to scam someone.

 

thanks for the responds. i knew something was fishy. i'm reporting this scam to the Internet Fraud Complaint Center.