From CL. . . a friend who emailed one of those cars.
This guy is a fool and/or stupid scamer, he is trying to sell me a 2003
BMW M3 for $8000, and the deal suppose to go as follows:
Hello,
First of all I must inform you that currently I'm in Rome, Italy and the
car is in Littleton, Colorado. The car has a clear title witch you will
receive it with the car. It can be registerd into your name,so stay cool
about this.It has 18000 miles.
I have to tell you that I have other serious offers that I have to
consider and I will make a decision regarding this sale function of time
of payment and price.
The price I hope to obtain is $8000 (this price is includes shipping to
your location because I'll come home and drive to your location) and if
you accept the price we can start the transaction. I need an $1000
deposit made before I'll come back home. The deposit payment must be
done using a money order service.
I prefer money order because works more fast than any other way of
payment and I made good bussineses in this way in the past.
The inspection period is 3-5 days tops.
I'm a fair trader a serious seller that closed many good deals here.
During this period l learned that the best deals are closed when the
risk involved is minimum and the time to close a deal is as fast as it
can, because other methods are unavailable here or takes too much time
till I cash the money payment. You will arrange the deposit payment
through western union. All you have to do is go with cash to a Western
Union office and complete a "To Send Money" form for $1000. As
receiver's address you must use my address:
Address: Via Della Cammilluccia 651
Zip code: 00135
City: Rome
Country: Italy
As you can see i didn't mention anything about the receiver's name and
you will see why. Because we didn't have any deals till now we must
build a relationship between us and as now it is hard to be built just
on trust we must work with something safe. I suggest to deposit the
money to a name other than mine as a receiver: your father's name, your
best friend's name or any name you can think of; this way you can be
sure that noone will not pick up the money untill we'll meet Right after
you make the transfer, you must send me the details of the transfer to
validate it:
- exact MTCN (Money Transfer Control Number, it is a 10 digits number,
that will help me to track the money online)
- exact sender name and address
(I need those informations so I can check if the transfer was made and I
can verify that on Western Union's web-page anytime I want to on
www.westernunion.com).
-exact receiver's name
After I will have the confirmation of the deposit payment ($1000), I
will come back to US in three days tops to meet you. After we'll meet,
you will have 5 days tops for inspection. If there is something wrong
with it, you can retrieve your money from Western Union. If you decide
to keep it, you must change the receiver name into my name Lee Rogers,
so I can be able to cash the money.
No need to mention about , the deposit is full refundable, I mean if
you'll reject the car you'll not change the receivers name and I can't
pick up the money.
If the car has hidden defects, or it is not as advertised, I will even
pay for the western union fee, but I doubt because the car is in perfect
condition.
Why this procedure? Because :
1. Western Union is a global leader in money transfer ,has agencies
worldwide and it is very flexible.
2. The money will be deposited at Western Union on the name you choose
and can NOT be retrieved (except by you) until you change the receiver
name into my name so it works just like a third party service .
3. This way I can have the guarantee that you have the money and that
you are ready to buy .
4.I will actually leave you the car for inspection first because the
money will be picked up after you inspect it. After you'll make sure
that the car is in a good working condition as I've described it in the
add I will wait for your permission to pick the money and get paid.
5. I will support the travelling and you will support the transfer
fees (You will have to pay some fees there at Western Union : 6% - 8%
from the total amount - this depends on your exact location also) - I
think this way is fair.
Very important!
Because we are dealing with a big amount here and we both
want to lower our additional fees or to exclude them I think it is
better not to inform western union that you will change the receiver's
name in a few days because it is possible that they ask you to pay the
fees twice. Also when you will go to the western union office to wire
the money (sometimes they ask you why are you doing that) don't tell them that is for something you have bought because I will have to pay a very expensive tax for making comerce when I pick up the money. We can avoid paying this money.
If they ask you that you can tell them that the money are for a friend
or family member. This we avoid spending some useless money and the truth I'm not willing to waste my money. I hope you will agree this procedure and if so, contact me back with your exact address, complete name and phone number.
All my best !
Lee.
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