email scams

[lars]

i have my qaud listed on a few web sites for sale. and in the last few days i have hade these weird emails sayin that oh were from london we would like to purchase your quad and we will give u your askin price and tellin me that they will give me 8000.00 for it. and when i get the money they will give me info on where to drop off the remainder of the 8000.00 cause im only askin 3500.00 for my quad. has anyone else hade this happen to them is this a scam. there also askin for my phone numbers and adress and all my info :huh just wondering if this is happening to anyone else

[MOFO]

:huh I wonder if the word quad means something else in other countries... :confused:

[JJWB023]

r they talking about 8000 us money or their money???

[CHAUNCY]

I think something like this happened to C-dale chick. It turned out to be a scam I think:eek:

[lars]

it would be us funds they say and the word quad isnt even mentioned in the ad:huh all it says is honda 400ex for sale 3500.00 and my email adress

[MOFO]

Originally posted by lars
it would be us funds they say and the word quad isnt even mentioned in the ad:huh


LMAO, I wasnt serious... just sounds like those guys are setting up some kind of drug buy (like the ones you see in the movies).

[lars]

but the funny thing is they say some one in the us owes them money. i am suppose to go and get the 8000.00 cash the check take my 3500.00 and shipping off the top then they will instruct me where to take for shipping and who to give the remainder of the money

[lars]

sounds kinda fishy to me

[stiffy]

We had the same thing happen to us back in May we had our banshee for sale asking $4500 for it and some guy e-mailed us and said that he is stationed in South Africa but his partner here in the states owes him $10,000 so he could have his partner give us the 10 grand and we keep the $4500 for the Banshee then he will give us a shipping address where we can ship the Banshee and the rest of the $$ too and use the leftover money to pay for shipping plus keep $300 for our troubles. We passed it along to one of our friends who is in the military and he e-mailed this guy back and forth still waiting to see if our friend is going to receive a check. We also asked where he saw our Banshee and he said he did a search on Yahoo :confused: I will keep you guys updated. STEF

[lars]

well this 400 ex is pretty much sold. im just tryin to decide which sled i want to trade for :D :D :D got a whole list of people who want to make trades. but i was just wondering if anyone else has hade this email thing happen to them .i guess so

[MOFO]

This honestly sounds like someone is laundering some money... I'd be careful if I were you...

[sickmojave]

Originally posted by VWVR6
This honestly sounds like someone is laundering some money... I'd be careful if I were you...

:eek2:

[modracer5]

http://********.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3488

This is a SCAM!!!!! go to this thread at ******** and read up.

[wilkin250r]

This is a common scam. There have been a couple threads about this in the past, you can search for them. It's almost always the same thing. Someone overseas, will give you much more than you are asking so that you will foward the rest of the cash along with the quad.

[K2Snow]

this is all interesting, i wonder what it's all about? any ideas?

[FourFiftyFour]

yep its a scam... I still have people from "west africa" e-mailing me about how they want to buy my "vehicle" which is a 250x..... :huh :huh :confused2 :confused2
I even got this one company to charge one of the guys with fraud for using their logo.... they learned not to mess with the infamous cdalechick! :devil: :devil: