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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 08:00 PM
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Default escort cossie, is this a scam one??

My mate who's interested has been talking to the guy via email and seems to think he could be genuine, I do not.
what do you chaps think?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...DME:L:RTQ:UK:1
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 08:06 PM
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Has he asked to view it?
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 08:07 PM
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of course its a scam,are you for real?
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 08:08 PM
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Not being funny...

But if something is TOO good to be true... it usually is.

An escos at 8k is usually too good to be true or FUCKED or a ringer or a reshell or a catd or catc.

So one at 5.5k with a few nice bits on......

Do you have to ask???

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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 08:09 PM
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complete scam

he's got a stunning 206 for sale aswell!! lol

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2002-Peugeot-2...em280092708460

be some sort of mug to fall for these scams!
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 08:24 PM
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cheers
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 08:38 PM
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its a false one, thats my mates car!
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 08:38 PM
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Looking a bit deeper...........

It looks like this person is from the U.S. or registered through ebay.com as opposed to ebay.co.uk

When pictures are uploaded to ebay.co.uk, the URL of the picture starts with http://i15.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/93/45/piccy.jpg or something like that...

The pictures he has put up are starting: http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/1297/piccy.jpg

Maybe nothing but I thought I'd point it out

Go look at the car and take the RAC with you

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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 09:01 PM
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the car is for sale,well is was a while back, Simon was after £16,000 for it.
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 09:03 PM
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"1995 N reg ford escort cosworth, in the only colour to have one in imperial blue ! Owned car for last 2 years in which i have loved it and spent around 10k on it. Car has been converted from small turbo to big turbo.

T34, greens, 3 bar map sensor, p8 with carl norris chip, fuel pressure reg, rs 500 alloy cooler & alloy rad, uprated fuel pump

18"rondell engels with toyo f1s, 355mm ap 6 pots only a few months old, since pics where took have also fitted 305mm disc conversion on rear with gold bells to match front. Avo coil overs, poly bushes in wishbones and anti roll bar"


All that for £5.5k!! Ma BAWS!!

Scam scam scam scam scam
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 09:59 PM
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you will wait about 3-4 days for a response to emails i like to waste their time so i sent him a mail saying just 'fuck off with your stupid scam you low life cunt' ...he obviously cannot read english as he replied ...

Hello,

Please forgive me for my late reply, but I was on a business trip and I just came home. This 1995 ESCORT RS COSWORTH LUX is a great car, never implied in any accident, in excellent condition. There are no signs of prior damage on this vehicle. My job put me on the way to UK and I bought this car there. Now I have to sell it as I've got back home in Hungary. As you know I need a left hand drive vehicle here. The car is registered in UK. The final price is £ 5500 sterling + shipping to your door.The estimated cost for door to door shipping to just about anywhere in the UK will cost about £ 500 GBP. For an accurate shipping cost please include your shipping address in your next email.

All documents, including V5 log book on your name will be provided along with the car.

The transaction will be made under eBay's protection plan for our safety. Your funds will be 100% insured by Ebay who will hold your payment until you receive and test the car. You will have 15 days from the time you receive the vehicle to inspect it and decide if you want to keep it or not. If you are interested in buying it please provide me your full name, address and eBay user id so I can initiate the deal through Ebay. I'm a serious man and I prefer to deal only with a serious buyer. I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards.

for more details contact me : mosinger31be@yahoo.co.uk

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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 10:04 PM
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I sent a email to test the owners knowledge on the one for sale the other week on ebay asking if it was the 'small turbo' or better 'big turbo' ,even though it had small turbo in ad and small turbo engine pics.... he replied that it was the better 'big turbo' model

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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by dave cos4x4
its a false one, thats my mates car!
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 06:42 PM
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If an english person is selling a car, their emails are like this:


Yes mate, I want £10000 for the escort. Why? well I fancy a change. If you want a butchers then give me a bell..


No-one puts all that shit into emails, its simply pointless as 99% of people will not come and look at it.
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