Can anyone help with this. Im trying to sell a set of wheels and been talking to this guy. I think he is trying to pull my pants down tbh. He said he was interested and wanted my details to send a cheque. Up till that point he had sounded genuine. Then he sent me this:

"Hello Mr Mark,
How are you doing today, hope fine. Well i just want to update you concerning the cheque payment, the cheque payment is about to prepared and is going to be on the way to your address as soon as they prepare it, and also i should let you know that the shipping cost of the wheel is also inludeded to the cost of the wheel am buying from you,which means that you are going to recieve a cheque of £5000,so when you recieve the cheque take it to the Bank for clearance and when the cheque clears into your account deduct your own money from it which is £1600 and the left funds after you must have deducted the cost of the wheel will be forwarded to my shipping agent so that they can make all the neccessary things before coming over to your location for the pick up of the wheel, so i hope you understand me? also how is the wheel, hope it is in a safe place?In your last mail you said Where are my located?How can you sort the shipping?,Am located in Fife uk but the wheels is going to france ,i have a friend who is a shipper,so he will be coming from france to make the pick up.So all you need is keep me inform anytime you recieve the cheque okay."

£5000??? Has anyone seen this before?
Cheers.

 

See if he sends a cheque mate...then go from there

 

SCAM

File it in the bin

 

Why the feck would he send a cheque for 5 large though? Doesn't make sense?

 

Deffo a scam, feck him off.

 

I have emailed the guy back saying dont bother sending a cheque for £5000. Send one for £1600 once it clears I will post them myself..

See if he replys!

 

Thats an expensive courier!

SCAM. They send a cheque, it then shows on your balance but isnt actually cleared, you send the item, then they cancel the cheque before its officially cleared.

Either that, or its a money laundering ploy to get money out of their country.

 

Sure he will reply back and asking if you are a christian and why you would not trust a fellow christian

 

Tell hime to send one for £4000 as you can ship them for only £2400 instead of the £3400 he got it for.

 

Hahaha! Ill inform him im a Devil Worshiper!!
Fuckin hell man! Im sick of fuckin waste of time bastard twats trying to fuck me about!! Fuckin hell

 

Bargin!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxcS3...eature=related

Pay your monies to your bank account sir

 

 

Oh dear

 

defo a scam pal be very careful tell him to come pick the wheels up in person and pay cash
he obviously wont as he probably lives in some 3rd world country like nigeria or ethiopia damn i bet they dont even have cars to put wheels on for fooks sake pmsl

 

Tell em to FOOK OFF. Don't reply to them. Had a bike for sale few months back, Same shit He'll give me a cheque for more than the price of the bike and i give him cash back and my bike!!!! Do Muppet's actually get caught by these coonts??

 

stolen cheque book
the bank cashes the cheque, you look and see money in your account
you withdraw the extra money and send it back to them
a few weeks later the owner of the cheque book tells the bank he wants his money back
the bank pays him his money back
you get shafted

tell him to send the cheque then bank it and sit on it for about 6 months

 

Are you really that dumb to believe that's true...

Jesus christ open your fuckin eyes!

LOL

 

No mate.
I said he seemed genuine from his prev emails. Then i saw this one. So I thought id check with everyone here. I wouldnt have put this post up at all if id of believe him would I!

 

Send the cheque to a friends address. Stick it in your bank and don't reply to him again! If its genuine then he shouldn't of been so dum giving you the cash and if its fake the bank will take the cash back and nothing more.

 

I just hate wankers like this would take the piss and waste peoples time!

 

Tis an old(ish) scam.
Don't do anything about it re-advertise them an sell to someone else.
james

 

Yeah my mate was selling a pug 206 gran turismo he got a phone call from this guy like you next min a cheuque fell through the door for 5k he only wanted 3 for the car the guy said the extra money was to secure the sale & could he pay him the balance into another account.Big scam my mate went to the police & they took the cheuque & the phone number he never heard back