You won't believe what just happened. I get this check in the mail from the guy who wanted my car. He lives in Nigeria! He sends a check for $7000. Says I can have $1000 for the car instead of $600 AND and additional $500 for helping him out. He wants me to send him the balance of $5,500 and the cars title so he can make shipping arrangements.

I call the company the check was printed from and the owners gets on the phone and tells ma its a huge scam and he gets calls from his bank all the time about it. Most people actually deposit the check, temporarily have a higher shown balance on thier account before the check actually clears, so they send the guy his money. Man that must stink! The FBI, Goverment and Bank are all investigating but told him it will probably never be resolved. I had also called the Bank and the funds were available but it would of never cleared cuase the check is counterfit. I told the owner of the company I would mail him everything I have and hope things get resolved.

So to say the least the car is still available and as has been said, "if its too good to be true, it probably is"!

Look out fellow Z car buyers and seller and never use personal checks. Because the bank even asked me all these questions about the check, like color, texture, letterhead and watermarks. And this counterfit was to a "T" like the real thing. Once they get your account number its over!

J.W. Valerus

 

Glad you didn't fall for it mate. That would have really sucked.

A word of advice to everyone, scams like these are a major cottage industry in Nigeria. If you are ever offered any deals that involve you sending money or account details to someone in Nigeria be very skeptical.

 

f-word those f-worders

 

Hey the same thing happened to us. Twice. WE even told the people before they sent the funds that we would not forward any cash untill the checks cleared. One guy sent a forgrd Money Order and one sent a forged Cashier's check. Some people will stoop to any level to try and make a buck. I can't believe they sent the checks even after I told them we would not forward any money untill the checks cleared.
Hell, one guy fell for the scam and somehow wired the money to the wrong address (lucky him) and therefore he was able to recover the 5 grand he sent less the transaction fee.
Warning to all, wait untill checks, money orders, cashiers check ect. clear the bank that they are drawn upon before going forward with any business transaction.

 

This happened to my brother 2 months ago when he listed his CRX Si for sale. Here's a link I found to the scam: http://tv.ksl.com/?sid=8986&nid=72

Bottom line, use common sense and don't leave yourself exposed to be burned when you're selling and buying!!

 

Definately had someone try to do this with my 55 Chrysler Imperial. I said to my self though that doesn't make any sense and then i saw the parenthesis and other giveaways that the e-mail was software generated just stick to America and normal buyers the right person will come along

 

the scam might not be just couple thousand of dollars. It may be all money in your account.
Similar thing happen to me was on my sport bike. The guy said my price was too low on a too nice bike so he want to do the same thing as yuor case but he want me to wire him back the rest of the money. Funny thing is he didn't worry about the bike and he talk way too nice.
Lucky for me that my friend just read about this scam right before this happend to me.
I ask him that I can send him back the rest of the money either by money order, or cash and he has no interested. The only thing we can do business is wire the money to him.
Be careful