Bike sale - Scammer?

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Edited Date/Time 7/17/2018 1:50pm
Got a bike for sale and this guy emailing me.


"Okay,I will like to buy it and also transport it away from your country to my home in Germany and i will also be paying through PayPal as it is the fastest & easiest way to pay... and do not worry about paypal charges, i will take care of that directly from my account so you can have the full funds in your account . So if you accept my proposal, you should send me your info requested below if you have an account already:-


Name :

PayPal Email :

Mobile Number:

Total amount :

so that i can proceed with the transfer and then we can arrange for my transport agent to come for the pick up after you received your money. I will need your home address too for the pick up to be arranged.


Regards

christian"

He will probably send the payment and then ask PayPal for cashback when he has received the bike?
Then PayPal will withdraw the money from my account and I will have no money and the bike is gone?
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HenryA 7/17/2018 4:40am
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100% Scam. Just delete the mail.
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tempura 7/17/2018 4:41am
7/17/2018 4:41am
I’ve had similar emails when selling stuff. I consider them all to be scammers. Not worth the risk for me, but everyone’s different.
RoflCopter726 7/17/2018 5:35am
7/17/2018 5:35am
One of the oldest tricks in the book. Same stuff was happening back in the early 2000's when I was on 85s.

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kb228 7/17/2018 5:48am
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Yeah its a scam.
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TJMX947 7/17/2018 6:23am
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I usually mess with these guys for hours. Lots of emails, get them all excited, then ghost them. My favorite thing to do is type as if I'm Yoda speaking...reference the force, Ob1...you know...all the good stuff. One time I typed the entire song from the intro to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air making references to my life...dude was like "I am so sorry to hear of your mother sending you away."

But yeah, its a scam. Don't do it.
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IWreckALot 7/17/2018 6:31am
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TJMX947 wrote:
I usually mess with these guys for hours. Lots of emails, get them all excited, then ghost them. My favorite thing to do is type as...
I usually mess with these guys for hours. Lots of emails, get them all excited, then ghost them. My favorite thing to do is type as if I'm Yoda speaking...reference the force, Ob1...you know...all the good stuff. One time I typed the entire song from the intro to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air making references to my life...dude was like "I am so sorry to hear of your mother sending you away."

But yeah, its a scam. Don't do it.
I decided to jack with a guy one time and they never actually reference whatever they're buying. He kept calling it "the item". I was selling a fridge and he kept coming back asking for information. At one point I said "I just sold the front door off of it last week but I still have the rest of it." He said "that is fine as long as it works. Please send paypal info as soon as you can". Then I started changing it up to a part of a guitar, and several other things. They don't even keep track of what they're trying to scam someone out of. I guess they're just looking for some REALLY low hanging fruit.
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dadofagun 7/17/2018 7:25am
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TJMX947 wrote:
I usually mess with these guys for hours. Lots of emails, get them all excited, then ghost them. My favorite thing to do is type as...
I usually mess with these guys for hours. Lots of emails, get them all excited, then ghost them. My favorite thing to do is type as if I'm Yoda speaking...reference the force, Ob1...you know...all the good stuff. One time I typed the entire song from the intro to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air making references to my life...dude was like "I am so sorry to hear of your mother sending you away."

But yeah, its a scam. Don't do it.
IWreckALot wrote:
I decided to jack with a guy one time and they never actually reference whatever they're buying. He kept calling it "the item". I was selling...
I decided to jack with a guy one time and they never actually reference whatever they're buying. He kept calling it "the item". I was selling a fridge and he kept coming back asking for information. At one point I said "I just sold the front door off of it last week but I still have the rest of it." He said "that is fine as long as it works. Please send paypal info as soon as you can". Then I started changing it up to a part of a guitar, and several other things. They don't even keep track of what they're trying to scam someone out of. I guess they're just looking for some REALLY low hanging fruit.
That’s priceless...?
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mx4all 7/17/2018 8:12am
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Maybe should scam the scammer. Accept his payment and ship him an old bicycle or something. And give the money to sharety. Dunno if the money is frozen at the PayPal account til he has received the money though? Haven't done any PayPal deals before.
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ns503 7/17/2018 8:20am
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There must be some way to turn the tables in a big way on these guys.

Like getting their money and them not being able to get it back without at least giving up their anonymity or something like that.

After playing them along of course...
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I say go ahead and proceed with the transfer...
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TJMX947 7/17/2018 10:36am
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mx4all wrote:
Maybe should scam the scammer. Accept his payment and ship him an old bicycle or something. And give the money to sharety. Dunno if the money...
Maybe should scam the scammer. Accept his payment and ship him an old bicycle or something. And give the money to sharety. Dunno if the money is frozen at the PayPal account til he has received the money though? Haven't done any PayPal deals before.
They don't actually want your item, they will send you an email to sign up for PayPal...or send you an email with a PayPal link. They will overpay you and then want you to send them the difference back, which you're responsible for since the funds are erroneous to begin with.

About 15 years ago my stepdad was halfway finished with a restoration on a 1970s Ford Bronco. He got tired of messing with it so he decided to sell it. A guy calls him from the UK, wants to arrange shipping, is going to send a certified check, etc. My Stepdad starts getting it ready to ship, check comes in the mail, with extra money to pay for the shipping and he wants my stepdad to wire it back to him. Within an hour of depositing the check my Stepdad gets a call from the bank saying the check wasn't legit, and he needed to bring the money back. Luckily he hasn't wried anything yet. He calls the guy and tells him the check was bad, dude hangs up never to answer again. This happened way before I ever heard of the common place scenarios.
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make1go 7/17/2018 10:44am
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paypal are a scam, they offer full protection for the buyer, next to zero protection for the seller.

theyll lock your money up or return it to the buyer even if the buyer is blantantly a scammer..

never use paypal to sell anything, they are theives of the highest order....
(please no "ive done lots of scampay without a problem" you'll realize what im saying when you do, its well documented on the net)
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make1go 7/17/2018 10:52am
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TJMX947 wrote:
They don't actually want your item, they will send you an email to sign up for PayPal...or send you an email with a PayPal link. They...
They don't actually want your item, they will send you an email to sign up for PayPal...or send you an email with a PayPal link. They will overpay you and then want you to send them the difference back, which you're responsible for since the funds are erroneous to begin with.

About 15 years ago my stepdad was halfway finished with a restoration on a 1970s Ford Bronco. He got tired of messing with it so he decided to sell it. A guy calls him from the UK, wants to arrange shipping, is going to send a certified check, etc. My Stepdad starts getting it ready to ship, check comes in the mail, with extra money to pay for the shipping and he wants my stepdad to wire it back to him. Within an hour of depositing the check my Stepdad gets a call from the bank saying the check wasn't legit, and he needed to bring the money back. Luckily he hasn't wried anything yet. He calls the guy and tells him the check was bad, dude hangs up never to answer again. This happened way before I ever heard of the common place scenarios.
hmm unless the check was an obvious forgery the bank wouldnt know in 1 hour that an os check was drawn against insuffient funds, thats why they take days/weeks to clear..
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Fog 25 7/17/2018 11:00am
7/17/2018 11:00am
Here’s one of my Craigslist corespondent for a bike I was selling.
Buyer
I moved here a year ago and sold my kx right before leaving and am regretting it so much with all the amazing trails out here. It's torturous having friend who own and ride bikes here and I am on their loaner or even worse, a rental....
So I have come to the conclusion that it's worth it to clear the checking account buy a bike, but I don't have much, so would you accept $3200 cash? I can come up and grab it today or tomorrow or whenever.
Me
$3200 is a little short what else you got offer? Wife? daughter? Send pictures.
Buyer
Done, you can have my wife! She doesn't cook or clean and hell, she not that good looking, but she sure does have a mouth on her. Can call the hens home to roost from 5 miles away! Wink
Me
When you say "she not that good looking" how does she compare to my ex Who dumped my ass!!!

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She was a bitch. She like cowboys and would only let you ride for seven seconds.
Buyer
Well sir, one would say you are better off to of loved and lost, but shit a 300+lbs cowboys fan just doesn't fall on your lap every day.....and you survive I mean.

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p3fab 7/17/2018 11:18am
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Last guy that tried to get me did even know what he was asking about it was a Toyota landcruiser he called a boat so it was on



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downard254 7/17/2018 11:19am
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I always thought about opening a bank account just for something like this, then once the PayPal amount was sent, cash out, close the account and boom, no place for PayPal to drawl the funds back out from.
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Donovan759 7/17/2018 11:24am
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p3fab - that was the best thing I have read all day. Well done my friend. WoohooLaughing

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p3fab 7/17/2018 11:25am
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Donovan759 wrote:
p3fab - that was the best thing I have read all day. Well done my friend. WoohooLaughing
I couldn’t believe he kept going I figured I had more time to waste them him somehow
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pkiczuk 7/17/2018 11:54am
7/17/2018 11:54am Edited Date/Time 7/17/2018 11:55am
mx4all wrote:
Maybe should scam the scammer. Accept his payment and ship him an old bicycle or something. And give the money to sharety. Dunno if the money...
Maybe should scam the scammer. Accept his payment and ship him an old bicycle or something. And give the money to sharety. Dunno if the money is frozen at the PayPal account til he has received the money though? Haven't done any PayPal deals before.
TJMX947 wrote:
They don't actually want your item, they will send you an email to sign up for PayPal...or send you an email with a PayPal link. They...
They don't actually want your item, they will send you an email to sign up for PayPal...or send you an email with a PayPal link. They will overpay you and then want you to send them the difference back, which you're responsible for since the funds are erroneous to begin with.

About 15 years ago my stepdad was halfway finished with a restoration on a 1970s Ford Bronco. He got tired of messing with it so he decided to sell it. A guy calls him from the UK, wants to arrange shipping, is going to send a certified check, etc. My Stepdad starts getting it ready to ship, check comes in the mail, with extra money to pay for the shipping and he wants my stepdad to wire it back to him. Within an hour of depositing the check my Stepdad gets a call from the bank saying the check wasn't legit, and he needed to bring the money back. Luckily he hasn't wried anything yet. He calls the guy and tells him the check was bad, dude hangs up never to answer again. This happened way before I ever heard of the common place scenarios.
back in the early 2000's, when I was in high school, my buddy posted his yz 80 online for sale. Im gonna say it was probably Ebay/bargain news etc... (selling stuff online wasn't quite as popular just yet). He got an email from some guy in "Africa" who wanted to buy the bike, and pay for the shipping overseas. He sent the checks in the mail and my buddy got them. He didn't have a bank account (we were only like 15-16) so he had our other buddy deposit the checks into his account. Same thing, he gets a call about an hour later from the bank to come back. They go back and the fucking FBI and Secret Service are both there. That was when I learned that the secret service is in charge of counterfeit money issues. So yeah, the threat of prison time was presented until it was cleared up what happened and my friend was just a young victim of money laundering.
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Bramlett321 7/17/2018 11:54am
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HenryA wrote:
100% Scam. Just delete the mail.
^^^^^ It's a scam....you get these constantly on Craigslist.
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TJMX947 7/17/2018 12:16pm
7/17/2018 12:16pm Edited Date/Time 7/17/2018 12:30pm
make1go wrote:
hmm unless the check was an obvious forgery the bank wouldnt know in 1 hour that an os check was drawn against insuffient funds, thats why...
hmm unless the check was an obvious forgery the bank wouldnt know in 1 hour that an os check was drawn against insuffient funds, thats why they take days/weeks to clear..
Hmmm...I was there, it was a cashier's check from Hawaii...and it happened 100% the way I'm explaining it to you. No embellishment.

Edit - Actually its more like 99% certainty...I'm not sure if my stepdad had the money in hand to wire back to the guy. However I was literally sitting at my parents house when the bank called.
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calcoast 7/17/2018 12:25pm
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If you think it's a scam...its a scam.
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Motox627! 7/17/2018 1:50pm
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Donovan759 wrote:
p3fab - that was the best thing I have read all day. Well done my friend. WoohooLaughing
p3fab wrote:
I couldn’t believe he kept going I figured I had more time to waste them him somehow
So awkward when you laugh out loud from behind your computer at work! LOL, that's good shit right there!

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