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Re: Advice about selling a car, recieving payment ...

by Sergei2013 in Security and Fraud Archives
‎Sep-19-2013 07:13 AM
‎Sep-19-2013 07:13 AM
Found another marine engineer out there. I'm selling a car and I've got sms with "is it still available? please reply to email". I replied "yes, it's for sale" and got this:   hello am olga powell,how i wish i could come and inspect  it but currently i'm working away from the country. I'm a marine engineer who's on a ship right now .so i'll be buying it without seeing it, Also I'll be paying via PayPal and i'm more than happy to pay the PayPal transfer charges too, i'll arrange the pick-up of it with a Private Courier Service as soon as you get your payment,and they will also help me sign the bill of sale so it goes onto my name.so tell me its condition     I've forwarded her this thread. Should be very enlightening.   I really couldn't guess from the first sms that it's a fraud. I wonder is it that bad that they have my email now? ... View more
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