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Hey SAU,

Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I have my car for sale on eBay, it's the first thing I've ever put on eBay, but I got a email I thought was a bit odd (Maybe it's just me).

But this is it,

Hi,

Thank you for the swift reply, I am interested in your advert so kindly write me with more information's about it. Below are my questions:

1. What is the present condition?

2. What is your last selling price?

I will await your urgent response and do also send me more pictures if available.

I will however be needing your city, state and postal code so that I can forward it to my shipping agent here in Malaysia who will be coming over there for the inspection and the pick up as soon as we finalize the sale.

Regards,

Linda

Email is [email protected]

Should I be careful with this?

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the person said they didnt have enough funds and would require me to do a small payment for the agent to a western union account.. lol its always same crap even made more obvious by the email being a GMAIL account

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Same bullshit as always. For example, if your car is for sale for $10,000, they offer to buy it and then make up some excuse like the "shipping company" will only take payment for shipping from the seller. You get an a fake e-mail (supposedly from paypal) stating you have received $10,000 plus the additional $1000 for shipping or whatever. They expect you to put $1000 (that you never received) into a western union/paypal account for shipping. After that you never here from anyone again.

It's not about the car, it's just a way to scam your cash.

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lol always a shipping agent from overseas. Here's a tip for avoiding scams: whoever it is, wherever they are from...until the cash is in your cold dead HANDS, treat them as a scammer. And never offer up personal information beyond basic contact details.

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the person said they didnt have enough funds and would require me to do a small payment for the agent to a western union account.. lol its always same crap even made more obvious by the email being a GMAIL account

There's nothing particularly dodgy about gmail, or any other email address. Western Union on the other hand is commonly used for scams.

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There's nothing particularly dodgy about gmail, or any other email address. Western Union on the other hand is commonly used for scams.

I only say that because a majority of scammers use non isp based emails clients to scam aka yahoo,gmail etc

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what is dodgy is the bad grammar...scammers appear to not have a grasp of english.

haha agreed, they always have the really dodgy inflections. The one that tried to get me sent a text to my phone and it came up with a contact name as though they were in my phonebook...

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