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Old 03-23-2020, 04:23 AM   #16
tiger.1000
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Default Re: Please educate me on scammers when selling a car

Here in the UK I recently advertised a car for £37,500. A man called Jerry Bryant emailed me stating that he would like to buy it for his son who lived in Cyprus....Mr Bryant lived in Greece.
We agreed a price and sure enough, as promised a bank draft arrived in the post and yes sent from Greece....Curiously the draft was for £45,500 ! Yes, considerably in excess of the asking price. Needless to say Mr Bryant was unable to view the car as he was busy working on an oil rig.....sound familiar?


I didn't pay the draft in to my account for obvious reasons.


Interestingly, had I done so, according to them that know, it would have "cleared" and of course at that stage I would release the car to Mr Bryant's shipping company.


Now, here's the catch.....even though your account may be temporarily credited with a considerable sum of money it is a "fraudulent transaction" and for that reason at any time in the future you may be debited with a very large sum and end up with no car !


Needless to say, Mr Bryant has terminated email correspondence and has disappeared....


A pal of mine who is an IT genius managed to trace the scource of the email address...Greece....NO ! Cyprus..NO!
USA....Yes !


Beware...they are out there to scam us !


So, Jerry Bryant....THE BARN IS WATCHING YOU !





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