I put my busa up for sale on Cycle Trader and sure enough, I have a scammer after me. I got this today...
"My client has just contacted me to re-affirm his interest to purchase your '04 Suzuki in it's "as is' condition and has agreed to settle for your asking price of $8,550. He has asked me to inform you that payment will get to you in a cashiers check of $13,000 which he expalined is a refund payment of a canceled order earlier made with a dealer,but was turned down due to a mixup in make and model.
The check payment has to be made out to you in this whole amount because of their prevailing company policy which only allows a refunds payment on one cashiers check.So you are required to deduct cost of your bike ($8,550) when payment gets to you and refund balance of $4,450 to the Agent contracted for pickup/shipping for him to offset shipping and tax charges.
After payment has reached you and balance sent to him,our agent will come for pick-up and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped to my customer while title papers and other necessary documents will be sent by you via courier service to my customer.
Please provide Name ,Address and Phone Number for your payment to be delivered to you via courier services.
Looking forward to your response.
Harry Benson
711 South 6th Street
P.O. Box 848,
Beatrice, NE 68310
Tel:- 402-403-0038"
I contacted Cycle Trader, who took the info for their detective and directed me to www.ic3.gov, which is the way to report this to the FBI. I filled out that report, then called my local police and just for fun, I called the Beatrice police since the address this clown gave was from there. I did make this scammer call me once - heavy African accent, call came from a room full of people on phones...
I just sent "Harry" an email letting him know that I have another buyer interested, but that if "Harry" can match their "offer" of 10,850, I will sell him the bike. Little does "Harry" know that he is about to get into a bidding war that will raise the bikes price to - oh - about 13,000 - then I won't need to worry about "refunding" any money...
"My client has just contacted me to re-affirm his interest to purchase your '04 Suzuki in it's "as is' condition and has agreed to settle for your asking price of $8,550. He has asked me to inform you that payment will get to you in a cashiers check of $13,000 which he expalined is a refund payment of a canceled order earlier made with a dealer,but was turned down due to a mixup in make and model.
The check payment has to be made out to you in this whole amount because of their prevailing company policy which only allows a refunds payment on one cashiers check.So you are required to deduct cost of your bike ($8,550) when payment gets to you and refund balance of $4,450 to the Agent contracted for pickup/shipping for him to offset shipping and tax charges.
After payment has reached you and balance sent to him,our agent will come for pick-up and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped to my customer while title papers and other necessary documents will be sent by you via courier service to my customer.
Please provide Name ,Address and Phone Number for your payment to be delivered to you via courier services.
Looking forward to your response.
Harry Benson
711 South 6th Street
P.O. Box 848,
Beatrice, NE 68310
Tel:- 402-403-0038"
I contacted Cycle Trader, who took the info for their detective and directed me to www.ic3.gov, which is the way to report this to the FBI. I filled out that report, then called my local police and just for fun, I called the Beatrice police since the address this clown gave was from there. I did make this scammer call me once - heavy African accent, call came from a room full of people on phones...
I just sent "Harry" an email letting him know that I have another buyer interested, but that if "Harry" can match their "offer" of 10,850, I will sell him the bike. Little does "Harry" know that he is about to get into a bidding war that will raise the bikes price to - oh - about 13,000 - then I won't need to worry about "refunding" any money...
