HEADS UP CHAPS SCAM ALERT

[CHEZ]

I HAVE ADVERTISED MY CHIM LATELY AND JUST RECEIVED AN E MAIL FROM WEB USER OUTGUN.COM OFFERING FULL VALUE FOR THE CAR ETC I HAVE LOOKED INTO THIS PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER AND IT TURNS OUT HE MAY BE PART OF NIGERIAN SCAMMERS TARGETING PERFORMANCE CAR SELLERS THEY OFFER FULL OR MORE THAN ASKING PRICE THEN SEND FORGED CHEQUE OR BANKERS DRAFT.

LOOK OUT FOR E MAIL ADDRESSES CONTAINING OUTGUN.COM

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

CHEERS.

[angel_xylon]

just while a scam thread is open, just to say if anyone uses paypal for ebay etc then I had a spoof email from them yesterday. Well allegedly from them but was actually from someone else trying to trick me into verifying my account. So just beware. Paypal will always start off emails to you with dear.... your name.

[FourWheelDrift]

Was it one of the African originating emails in which all the text was in upper case letters only?

[dai capp]

Funny that, I had a chap from Nigeria try to buy my cerbie...

I advertised the plate for sale with a pic of it in place on the cerbie. This chap seemed to think that for £300 he was going to get the car and got real shirty when I told him that as the ad stated the car wasn't included!

I thought nothing of it and just put it down to the bloke being a bit of a twat but may be there's more to it....

DC

[PetrolTed]

Advertise your cars with PH and benefit from the Nigerian scammer filtering software I've implemented. It's not foolproof but it's catching most of them these days.

[burriana500]

We used to live in Nigeria charming place, utterly charming

[andy4200]

angel_xylon said:

just while a scam thread is open, just to say if anyone uses paypal for ebay etc then I had a spoof email from them yesterday. Well allegedly from them but was actually from someone else trying to trick me into verifying my account. So just beware. Paypal will always start off emails to you with dear.... your name.

I've had a couple of them also.... and the bunch of citibank ones that come around.

The paypal one looks better than the citibank one and maybe a few years ago it would have tricked me but something just made me think it was wrong.

[montegogt]

I had one last year when I had my Wedge for sale on PH. I had an approach from a "European" sounding agent, who offered me £3000 over my asking price, which was on the high side to start with. He wanted me to transfer his £3000 commission to him and he would get his client to send me a cheque for the full amount. Green and cabbage looking sprung to mind, but hey ho you never know. I suggested that I would send his commission after I had cleared the cheque from his buyer. This dragged on for some weeks, eventually he phoned me and said the cheque was on its way. By this time I was sure it was a scam and said the car was no longer available. Next day a cheque arrived in a brown envelope, wrapped in a bit of paper ripped from a shorthand note book, no address, nothing. Interesting that the cheque was from the receivers of a company... I e-mailled the agent to ask where to return the cheque to. Strangely enough I never had a reply...
I'm not convinced that the car was the target at all, but just money laundering. They give you a duff cheque and they get £3000 a time. Who cares about the car?
I reported it to the police, but as I wasn't out of pocket they weren't interested...

[Wacky Racer]

Mrs. WR had an e- mail from "ebay" last week asking for conformation of her credit card details.....

She contacted the REAL E-bay and they confirmed it was indeed a scam, as she thought it was, (Looked very authentic though)

NEVER EVER give out your details to ANYBODY who contacts you unsolicited...

[zumbruk]

These emails apparently from financial institutions, eBay, etc., are called "phishing".

I suggest that you never ever click on a URL contained in an "official" email. There are several bugs in IE that make it easy to disguise where a URL *really* goes, and genuine functionality that makes it easy to fool naive users. If you're going to your bank's website, use a bookmark that you personally have previously verified as good.

[andy4200]

burriana500 said:

We used to live in Nigeria charming place, utterly charming

I worked out there for a year too. wouldn't call it charming but definately interesting.

[markda]

dai capp said:

Funny that, I had a chap from Nigeria try to buy my cerbie... I advertised the plate for sale with a pic of it in place on the cerbie. This chap seemed to think that for £300 he was going to get the car and got real shirty when I told him that as the ad stated the car wasn't included! I thought nothing of it and just put it down to the bloke being a bit of a twat but may be there's more to it.... DC

Sounds like the same chap who tried to buy my Scoob! Again the email written all in uppercase and broken english!

>> Edited by markda on Wednesday 23 June 11:30

[nasz]

I've just had one - they want to send me a cashiers cheque. Should I try and cash it or just turn them down flatly!

[PetrolTed]

Just ignore 'em.

[neilmac]

If you ask em for their bank details so that your bank can take all their money directly - you don't hear from them again

Or if you can't be bothered as Ted says just ignore them they do give up.

Neil

[RUSSELLM]

Last year, my dad retired & decided to sell his wood working machinery. A guy in Nigeria called & sent a £500 cheque deposit. Some time later he (working on behalf of the nigerian high commision) called to say the nigerian church had given him £5,000,000 to spend. My dad told him, "just send the other £1500 for the machine & come & collect it."
The guy then asks for my dad's bank details, to which he replied " I'm to old a cat to be f**ked by a kitten, send the dough." The guy said "I don't understand" & my dad replied "yes you do !"

Shock of all shocks, the other £1500 arrived.

A month later, the machine hadn't been collected & the nigerian called to see if everything was o.k.
My dad said, "everythings fine, especially as I'm now charging you £20 a day to store the machine."
The guy never collected it, It got sold to someone else & the unit is now empty.

Is he the first person to ever get £2000 out of a nigerian con man ?

[anonymous-user]

nasz said:

I've just had one - they want to send me a cashiers cheque. Should I try and cash it or just turn them down flatly!

Have you checked their IP address to see where the email is coming from? Try www.dnsstuff.com and put the IP in the whois? box. If it's a UK IP you need to be careful, if it's overseas very very careful, if it's from Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire etc... don't even think of going there. Many of the scammers are using .co.uk addresses but if the computer is in Africa it still usually shows up. They can disguise it though so beware.

[Toffer]

The link works well Paul...Thanks!