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Sophstar

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Currently advertising my horsebox for sale and had a bloke email enquiring about condition. I replied and got this back...

'Hello,
I really appreciate your respond,I am a marine engineer and am currently at sea at the moment,due to my occupation as a marine engineer at this moment i am presently working offshore,sometimes access to regular emails and phone calls are very poor in offshore due to inefficiency of the immarsat service, I located in pacific WA, and i want you to know that am okay with the Horsebox status and also the conditions of the Horsebox and the asking price as well, I am buying the Horsebox as a gift for my Dad as a surprise for him,he wont know anything about the Horsebox until they get delivered to him, i can only pay through PayPal as i don't have access to my bank account on-line as i don't have internet banking,but i have my bank account attached to my PayPal account and this is why i insisted on paying you through PayPal, kindly get back to me with your PayPal details if you don't have PayPal account yet,it is very easy to set up at your bank and get it set up,after you have set it up i will only need the e-mail address you use for registration with PayPal so as to put the money through so i can proceed with the payment and after the payment has been done, i have a pick up agent that will come around for verifications and to pick the Horsebox after i have made the payments for the Horsebox.So I will need you to provide me with the following information to facilitate the making of the payment.

1.Your PayPal full name.
2.Your PayPal Email Address.
3..Your phone number.

Once again ,I will like you to know that you will not be responsible for shipping. I will have my pick-up agent come over as soon as you have receive the payment confirmation.'


I'm not entirely comfortable with a whole paypal payment as I know numerous people have their details stolen off of it.

Is this bloke dodgy or genuine?
 
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Dodgy. Money laundering scheme me thinks, of the type where they want to pay more than the asking price and get you to give them a cheque for the balance, or you deliver the vehicle / horse and the payment miraculously disappears from your account.

I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole.
 
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I got almost exactly the same message in response to a car for sale ad. He said that he couldn't phone because he was at sea but somehow managed to send a text. All sounded very dodgy, although I'm not exactly sure how it works!
 
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Sounds very dodgy! The English is very poor too which is usually a sign that it is a scam. Be careful. I was selling a laptop on eBay a few years ago and a dodgy Nigerian tried to pretend they had paid when they didn't. Got an email from ebay saying they had paid (£50 too much too!) but me being a sceptic did check my eBay account and they hadn't paid! They then sent me threatening emails on why I hadn't posted it but went away when I told them I had alerted eBay to them.

If it sounds too good to be true it usually is!
 
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SCAM SCAM SCAM! I didn't even read the whole letter. As soon as they said they're not in the country I thought it was a scam.

If it is genuine, ask for his Paypal account details and say you will invoice him!
 
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DODGY! I had a similar request when selling a horse last year, the same broken english etc, they wanted to pay in full via paypal and send someone to collect the horse on their behalf without even looking at her!
 
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