RHR BOOST Moderating Team 5,698 Member For: 21y 4m 20d Gender: Male Location: Southern Highlands NSW Posted 11/04/11 10:58 AM Share Posted 11/04/11 10:58 AM In the same boat currently trying to sell the wifes run around. Had three sms thus far. They get better and better "Thanks for mailing back,what is your lowest price and the condition,ambuying it for my holiday,because I'll be coming soon from our rig asam a petroleum engineer and am on a rig offshore,I won't be able tocome for the inspection due to the nature of my work .I will be payingyou through PayPal,please get back to me with your PayPal details so Ican proceed with the payment and contact the courier agent who willcome to pick it up and deliver it in my place. Await your replyWankers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonjaz Donating Members 1,841 Member For: 16y 1m 18d Gender: Male Location: CQ Posted 11/04/11 11:03 AM Share Posted 11/04/11 11:03 AM ^^^^^ exactly same story I got from 3 different people about my road bike "offshore engineer" my ass... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuckSqueezeBangBlow ʎǝʞuoɯ ɹoıuǝs Donating Members 1,808 Member For: 16y 1m 9d Gender: Male Posted 11/04/11 11:19 AM Share Posted 11/04/11 11:19 AM "phone calls making..are restricted" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyl90 Member 99 Member For: 14y 7d Gender: Male Location: CQ Posted 11/04/11 11:29 AM Share Posted 11/04/11 11:29 AM Here's an actual email I received when the scammers made an enquiry on my last vehicle:Sent: Fri May 28 18:18:20 2010 Received: Fri May 28 18:18:25 2010 From: Leigh Crozier <leighcrozier@y7mail.com> To: X Subject: About Your 1997 FORD FALCON SEDAN $8750 Part(s): Message Source Save As Thanks for the prompt response..I am ready to buy it now as a birthday gift for my GreatFather and I am at sea at the moment as I am a marine engineer and due to the nature of mywork, phone calls making and visiting of website are restricted but I squeezed out time tocheck this advert and send you an email regarding it. I really want the car to be a surprisefor my father so I wont let him know anything about the car until it gets delivered to him,I am sure he will be more than happy with the car. I insisted on paypal because I don'thave access to my bank account online as I don't have internet banking, but I can payfrom my paypal account, as I have my bank a/c attached to it, I will need you to give meyour paypal email address and the price so I can make the payments asap for the car and plsif you don't have paypal account yet, it is very easy to set up, go to www.paypal.com.au and get it set up, after you have set it up I will only need the e-mail address you use for registration with paypal so as to put the money through. I havea pick up agent that will come and pick the car up after I have made the payments...ThanksWhat a load of rubbish!Exactly same thing happened to me! I ended up having to close my paypal account and change all of my passwords because of these heads if I can remeber it was also on 60 mins or something not to long ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corzza 777 Member 7,135 Member For: 15y 11m 24d Gender: Male Location: Neutral Bay. Born and Bred in the RSA Posted 12/04/11 11:51 AM Share Posted 12/04/11 11:51 AM Are the cops getting onto these guys if they local? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt036 Donating Members 280 Member For: 15y 18d Gender: Male Posted 12/04/11 12:52 PM Share Posted 12/04/11 12:52 PM Well the one I almost got sucked into was right up to me pretty much sending the money before I said nah this is crap and he actually rang my number as it was in the listing and I couldn't understand a single word this toss was saying. After about a min of his utter ramble crap I just told him where to get off and hung up and sent a nicely worded email and that was it from him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyBrennan Donating Members 683 Member For: 13y 10m 4d Gender: Male Location: Baldivis, Wait Ages. Posted 10/05/11 09:37 AM Share Posted 10/05/11 09:37 AM Same thing happened to me. I put my BA XT on gumtree for sale. In 1 and a half hours I got the text. Said he works off shore and has bad reception so email him.... Said he would pay through pay pal and someone is coming to pick it up.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest XR09 Guests Posted 10/05/11 10:13 AM Share Posted 10/05/11 10:13 AM I had it trying to rent a house off the internet.The house was brilliant. Good thing it was too good to be true. Or I am a cynical old *beep*. She even emailed a copy of her passport. Bloody stunner. Wanted to know if she could rent a room back a month or two a year. half of me was like grr baby grrr. Luckily the cynical *beep* won.Also lucky I have family in the feds and got her passport checked before I sent the money for the bond and rent.Still have The emails. Damm it... bloody too good to be trues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trough Lolly Member 4,349 Member For: 20y 4m 17d Gender: Male Location: Mildura Posted 10/05/11 10:56 AM Share Posted 10/05/11 10:56 AM Pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 2m 11d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 10/05/11 11:21 AM Share Posted 10/05/11 11:21 AM Pics!Or Ban!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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