Prelove scam

found this add on prelove
Preloved | land rover defender 110 300 tdi county for sale in Bristol
email owner

Bradley


please could you tell me a bit more about your land rover.
How long have you had it?
Why are you selling
does it have a service history
When is the MOT till.
Any know issues with the gear box or transfer box.
How much rust is there, has the crossmember been replaced?


I guess there are so many questions my phone number is 077 if it easier to talk.
kind regards


I get email

Hello,
The car is still for sale. Immaculate condition, no damages, nothing to worry about. All necessary documents available. My current location is Ellon in Scotland, i`m 56 years old, my husband died 2 months ago. If this is going to be a quick sale, I will list it on eBay for £5,200 delivered at my costs.
I decided to list it on eBay with a buy it now option and whoever wins it will be the next owner. I assume you already have an account with eBay. If not please register and let me know when you are ready so I can just email you the link.
If you'd like to secure the deal before anybody else does, then please buy it on eBay. Feel free to ask me any questions.
The deal will go strictly according to eBay Money Back Guarantee Protection Buyer rules and policy.
Thank you

Jessica


Thank you for your e-mail and sorry to hear about your husband. I do have an ebay account. I had hoped to see the land rover, thinking your we not to far away in Bristol. Ellon is a bit far to pop over to have a look. I have looked at flights from Cardiff but its not realistic due to cost and time.


I wish you all the luck selling the land rover
kind regards
David

Hello,
The best way to complete this transaction, because of the distance problem (I'm in Ellon, the car is already in eBay custody, into their warehouse here in Scotland), is to use eBay Money Back Guarantee. They will handle everything for both of us, including transportation and transfer of the car papers to your name. You don't have to pay anything extra, the total price that you must pay for this car is £5,200


-Here is how the transaction will go on:
-I will make a private eBay listing for you.
-You will have to click "buy it now", fill in the forms and follow the instructions.
-eBay will send you an invoice with all the transaction details and the payment instructions.
-You will have to secure the funds to eBay.
-After the funds will be secured to eBay, the delivery will begin and the car will arrive to you in max. 48 hours.
-When the car will be in your custody, you will have a 3 days inspection period. If everything is alright, the transaction ends and eBay will release the money to me. If there is something wrong with the car, you will be fully refunded and I'll get my car back too, without any extra fees.
Everything is covered by eBay. I will get paid only after you confirm that you received it. I would need your ebay username so I can send you the link. I'm waiting for your reply.
Thank you.

I have contacted e-bay and they do not offer this service and have also contacted prelove. not sure what section to post in but felt it should be shared.

Loads of variations on this, 'I'm working on an oil rig', was the last one posted IIRC.

Do not touch with a barge pole!

I had the oil rig story, when i sold my vito on auto trader, can't remember my exact reply but it was on the lines of feck off. Got my wifes A6 for sale at the moment on auto trader and have had four scam emails already, bounced them straight back to auto trader.

I don't know if anyone uses freecycle but these scams seem to have appeared on there too. Someone was giving away an electric bike which would have done OK for my Mum. I asked for it, got a reply a week later where the person had moved and now 'lived in the South' but would be happy to courier it to me. They wanted my address and it was going to cost me £30.

I gave them the address of the Southampton Police station, with my new name - Huw G. Rection and then I got a reply saying that was fine and if I pay with ukash and give them the code I would have my stuffs. They gave me the telephone number of the courier company, which I looked up and found as a person on a Nigerian social network site. How strange!

To be honest, I love winding these people up. I then said that I lived in the south and I could come and collect. Then suddenly they lived 7 hours away. 7 hours from the south? Scotland? After a few more wind up emails they were going to give me a tutorial on how to scam people as they can make £3000 per week! I declined their kind offer.

I am sure people fall for it, but it's quite good sport for me. Unless I suddenly get a boat load of Nigerians come over and murder me and my family. Then it might not be so much fun.

I'm surprised that the people who fall for these scams even know how to turn a computer on ...

Although what is also surprising is the shocking quality of the scams ... spelling, sentence structures, geographical inaccuracies, absurdities and just plain gibberish! If they applied half a brain to the scams and made them just a tad more plausible they'd hook a shed-load more, I guess.

When we were selling a car once we got a call from someone who was actually from the UK asking if we could ship it overseas. We went along with it and ended up with them sending me a cheque for the full amount plus shipping.
We contacted the police and they said to pay it in and see what happens.
The cheque was a fake, and bounced, but I still can't work out how they were planning on the scam working, as surely I would have waited for the cheque to clear before handing over the car?

james6546 said:

When we were selling a car once we got a call from someone who was actually from the UK asking if we could ship it overseas. We went along with it and ended up with them sending me a cheque for the full amount plus shipping.
We contacted the police and they said to pay it in and see what happens.
The cheque was a fake, and bounced, but I still can't work out how they were planning on the scam working, as surely I would have waited for the cheque to clear before handing over the car?

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Heheheh, brain dead scammers ..

The majority of the emails are indeed in very poor English, but the initial email I had about the bike was in very good English. But I think there are 2 people involved in the scams and the second person obviously has a very poor grasp in the English language.

tetsu0san said:

The majority of the emails are indeed in very poor English, but the initial email I had about the bike was in very good English. But I think there are 2 people involved in the scams and the second person obviously has a very poor grasp in the English language.

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"of the English language"

Oh, and after a few days of winding up he called me Satan.

I was very proud of that,

DiscoPol said:

"of the English language"

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So, do you want to buy my yatch? You pays me £30 and I send you the stuffs.

tetsu0san said:

Oh, and after a few days of winding up he called me Satan.

I was very proud of that,

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james6546 said:

When we were selling a car once we got a call from someone who was actually from the UK asking if we could ship it overseas. We went along with it and ended up with them sending me a cheque for the full amount plus shipping.
We contacted the police and they said to pay it in and see what happens.
The cheque was a fake, and bounced, but I still can't work out how they were planning on the scam working, as surely I would have waited for the cheque to clear before handing over the car?

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The way it works is that the cheque was probably stolen. It can sometimes take weeks for a stolen cheque to be picked up by the bank, in the meantime the cheque would show as cleared on your account (this is done on time i.e. your bank haven't heard any different) and would then bounce and the money debited to your account.

About a year ago a couple of pensioners were on the news alerting people to the scam they'd fallen for

It was the standard African dictator needs to get his cash out

Over a period of a few weeks they sent him £30,000 so they are out there, the idiots that fall for it I mean

My business gets scam mails all the time, some make me actually smile so much I string them for a bit just to see how it goes, easy sport, some reach desperate levels of stupidity in their responses to get you to part with cash....but yes sadly some still fall for it many on a "too good to be true" type scam, greed, stubbornness and stupidity lose many their money

We had a great one last week a guy emailed to say he wanted to buy 1000 laptops
So we let it run all week I told each one was £995 even though they were on the web site for half this
he agreed, even sent us his full company info etc
on the 4th day of email tennis he provided us with a credit card number!

Although I heard nothing more when I said his details were being checked by the fraud squad
funny that

I know this is wrong, but whenever I get an automated call about something (the accident I had within the last 2 years, PPI etc), I always press 5 or whatever the number is to speak to a representative and then I pretend to be their own IT helpdesk.

It's quite funny what information they will give out. I am just waiting for the call from "Microsoft" about my PC running slow so I can pretend to be their IT helpdesk too.

tetsu0san said:

I know this is wrong, but whenever I get an automated call about something (the accident I had within the last 2 years, PPI etc), I always press 5 or whatever the number is to speak to a representative and then I pretend to be their own IT helpdesk.

It's quite funny what information they will give out. I am just waiting for the call from "Microsoft" about my PC running slow so I can pretend to be their IT helpdesk too.

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My parents got the call from "Microsoft" when I was there, so mum goes "hang on, my son has a degree in computer science I'll put him on".

I had some fun asking where he managed to get mums landline number from as it isn't actually stored on the pc or anywhere, he didn't have an answer for me, or how he was actually going to solve the problem of the computer running slow and hung up in the end!

I had a similar one when I was looking for a 90 couple years ago. Found what I though was an immaculate 2004 TD5 XS 30K for £7,000 I was all over this! Then found out it was in a small town in the most northernly part of Scotland.

Spoke to the chap but he always refused to give me his number which I found odd and wouldnt run an HPI check even though I offered to pay. This back and forth went on for a while as it did sound almost believable. As always he wanted me to pay and then have the car delivered....

All was sweet until I mentioned I had family in the next town! Silence from then on...

Reported as you do.

at least they did not want you to send it to you ant in Nigeria as a wedding present