Opinions/experiences please!

I seem to recall a thread from a few weeks ago regarding scams involving selling things and getting ripped off.

 

I'm selling a car on gumtree and have had an offer via email from a bloke on an oil rig in NZ, buying it as a graduation gift for his son in the NT, sight unseen.

 

He wants my bank details and once I receive the money via direct deposit he will organise a "courier agent" to pick up the car and sign the necessary paperwork. What could possibly be wrong here?


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100% scam

Tue, 2014-12-16 05:32

 Have had same email from rig in NZ

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there are a few ways it plays

Tue, 2014-12-16 05:37

there are a few ways it plays out, among them an email link to a fake paypal website with an "overpayment" then asking for a partial refund.

None of them involve an actual pickup of a car as far as I know.

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 Yep son had the same message

Tue, 2014-12-16 05:59

 Yep son had the same message for the bike he's selling. Scumbags.

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Thanks guys...

Tue, 2014-12-16 06:41

...just seemed awfully suss when he said his phone didn't work 'cause he was on a rig and he showed virtually no interest in getting further details about the car. Also offered me an extra $300 to take it off gumtree and "hold" it for him.

 

Out of curiosity, if I WERE to send my bank details, and the money DID show up in my account, and it WAS actually real money, where could I come unstuck? Maybe this "courier agent" has a kneecapping licence as well?

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 He has your bank details 

Tue, 2014-12-16 06:56

 He has your bank details 

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Yes...

Tue, 2014-12-16 07:07

...but what could he do with them? I have the bank details of my fiancee's ex-husband and as much as I would like to, I can't take his money out...she's expensive!

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Again!

Tue, 2014-12-16 07:30

Another email just came through from a NZ Oil and Gas rig, this time from "Stella"...the one from last night was "Chris"! Amazing how two people from the same workplace want to buy the same car through the internet, from a place seven time zones (WA) away!

 

I wonder if NZOG is aware of all this...obviously Chris and Stella most likely are fictional characters but I did Google their company and that DOES exist..

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 Yeh really common scam on

Tue, 2014-12-16 09:26

 Yeh really common scam on Gumtree, stay a million feet away from it!

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Don't do it

Tue, 2014-12-16 19:04

 

If it seems to good to be true IT IS

It is a scam, tell them you will wait until their commute is over, ask for the mobile number so you can contact them when back in Aus, last you will hear from them.

You asked for opinions of the guys here, they have told you, so it is your call now, if you proceed, can't say you were not WARNED.

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Tue, 2014-12-16 21:21

 I'm going to be advertising my Subaru soon on Dumbtree soon, see how many emails or texts I get from those idiots

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rig pigs

Sat, 2014-12-20 17:32

I work out on an oilrig in asia and can tell ya. It can get boring as shit out here sometimes, which often results in a whole lot of random "presents" at home when i return. But to buy a car, unseen, with no extra info, pictures or history is just taking the piss, even for the kiwi's...

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general process is

Mon, 2014-12-22 17:21

he asks for you bank details

you send them

if you save your username and password on your pc he could hack it.

Or  he'll say he tried but couldn't effect the transfer so he went with money order through western union.

He'll send you a "proof of transfer" that'll be 1000 over what you asked. He'll then ask you to pay the 1000 to a collection service.

Which you'll do, and that's when you find out the western union transfer is bull and the collection service doesn't exist.