This guy is a FRAUD!!!

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This guy is a FRAUD!!!

Postby Guest101 on Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:12 pm

I was scanning for a mitsubishi eclipse when I came across this ad - http://www.autodealer.ae/plugins/ad/buy ... p?id=41243

The ad looked way too good to be true. The car was worth atleast thrice that amount with all the mods. Nevertheless, I decided to email the concerned person and find out more about it. Here's how the emailing went -


Me
to motors_unlimit. Nov 6

Hi,

This is in reference to ur mitsubishi eclipse ad priced at AED 20,000 - http://www.autodealer.ae/plugins/ad/buy ... p?id=41243

Is the car still available? If it is, is it available here in the UAE or do I have to pay for it to get imported?

Please let me know ASAP.

My contact no. is - +971-50-xxxxxxx

Thanks,

Me



Mike Brave
to me Nov 7
the car is still available for sale and you'll have to pay make a US $3000 (~10.000 AED) deposit in an escrow account and after you receive the car the next USD $3000. Let us know if you agree with our terms and we can finish the deal.




Me
to Mike Nov 7
So are you saying the car is not here in the UAE? Because I was looking forward to have a look at it and give it a test drive.




After this email I did a lot of research on escrow accounts. There were innumerous cases of escrow fraud on the net. I came across this page on ebay - http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/p ... scrow.html I also checked out escrow.com and they were even offering services of having their team check out the car before shipping it. So, after reading up on all this I sent Mike another email -


Me
to Mike Nov 7
I forgot to mention is that I have no problem working with an escrow service, as long its only http://www.escrow.com/

Also, I will be sending some people over to inspect the car just to make sure everything's ok before the deal.

I hope there are no issues with these terms.


Regards,

Me



I have not recieved any reply since. So in conclusion, I would like to caution everyone against this car. You could be losing a wad of cash in return for nothing.
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Be careful. Thanks for bringing to our attention.

Postby TheEditor on Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:08 pm

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
The user and his adverts have been disabled.

EVERYONE, PLEASE BE CAREFUL WITH FOREIGN ADVERTISERS!
Never send money like this guy was asking.
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Postby Guest101 on Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:19 am

Your welcome. My advice to all the users here would be to do thorough research of the risks involved with these kinds of online transactions. U never know when someone might take u for a ride (no pun intended!)
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Postby abu ghareeb on Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:17 pm

Thanks for the tip
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scamsters are everywhere!

Postby sushi on Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:36 pm

This is interesting, as my neighbour almost fell for a similar scam while buying mobile phones over Ebay from a seller in UK. The guy was selling a bunch of new Nokia phones well below market price.

My friend contacted the guy and he sounded very professional. He sent him a form that looked very genuine and came from Escrow.com as a broker in the middle. Escrow.com is apparently a legit company, but this guy had forged the Escrow.com forms and changed the payment instructions to his account in Western Union.

My friend for the sake of it, checked Escrow.com and found out there that they do not accept Western Union and that was how he figured out. But it was a pretty close call. If he had transferred the money, it would have never reached Escrow.com and just ended up in the scamsters account at Western Union.
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