****EXAMPLE OF A SCAMMER EMAIL - PLEASE SHARE AND BE AWARE**** Here is an example of a scammer / fraudster email commonly seen. *************START*********** Hi ****, Please accept our apologizes for the late reply but we havent got time to send you an answer earlier as we both working away so is quite difficult for us doing this right now! For this reason we also listed the caravan on eBay three weeks ago at a higher price but we havent got luck in selling it for the asked price and now we are having some problems so this caravan needs to go ASAP for a buy now price of $****. Because we cant arrange inspection sooner than 30th of November due to work commitments, I will reserve the caravan for you and I prefer to have this sealed through eBay Australia since the payment is 100% refundable after inspection, but this is not the case as I am sure that you will be more than satisfied with the caravan. The payment will be secured (held) by eBay as a deposit until we deal the transaction in person and you will confirm them that you are satisfied with it. If you need the caravan this week, then we can have it delivered to your home address using a local transport company as soon as we go through eBay process for a total price of $****; all this time the funds will be in safe with eBay and the most important thing is that we can start the process today. Please let me know the way you prefer to deal with us so that we can organize the things with eBay. Kindly Regards, ************END*********** Signs that identify scammers / frausters are: - asking price significantly under market value, - delays in inspection availablity, - correspondance not written in correct english (run through a translation program), - asking for funds to be deposited in a holding facility claiming to be ebay, amazon, other banks etc, - item for sale is held in an interstate storage facility away from the seller, - Sellers are overseas and item is looked after by a trusted friend. The list goes on of the signs but the above are what we are typically seeing at the moment.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:04:01 +0000
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