Does this sound like a scam or what.
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Does this sound like a scam or what.
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in my 1993 Mazda RX-7. Please take a few moments and read my email carefully and maybe you will have the pleasure to own this Mazda .
Some words about the car:
Perfect condition,no defects with it,it run like a new one,it has 103000 miles,year 1993.The car is an US model with US specs and comes with all the documents you need to register it .
Shipping:
I will ship the car with Lufthansa Air Cargo, and you will receive it in 2- 3 days.This service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year,so there will be no probleme to use it even in weekends.
I'm in Greece ,Athens and the car is here with me.
The price I hope to obtain is 8,900 USD .if you agree with to this price we can start completing the transaction.
Please send me your complete address in order to calculate the shipping costs.
The car is allready deposited at Lufthansa Air Cargo with all the documents you need to register the car.Once we will agree to close this deal i will call at Lufthansa Air Cargo office and tell them to start the shipping.
If you would like to see more pictures of my car please email me and i will send you all the pictures that i have with it .
If you agree with my above terms, I'm sure that we can close the deal as soon as possible.
I reserved the car for you until I'll have your final answer.
Cordially,
Cheryl Turgeon
too good to be true i guess.
Thank you for your interest in my 1993 Mazda RX-7. Please take a few moments and read my email carefully and maybe you will have the pleasure to own this Mazda .
Some words about the car:
Perfect condition,no defects with it,it run like a new one,it has 103000 miles,year 1993.The car is an US model with US specs and comes with all the documents you need to register it .
Shipping:
I will ship the car with Lufthansa Air Cargo, and you will receive it in 2- 3 days.This service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year,so there will be no probleme to use it even in weekends.
I'm in Greece ,Athens and the car is here with me.
The price I hope to obtain is 8,900 USD .if you agree with to this price we can start completing the transaction.
Please send me your complete address in order to calculate the shipping costs.
The car is allready deposited at Lufthansa Air Cargo with all the documents you need to register the car.Once we will agree to close this deal i will call at Lufthansa Air Cargo office and tell them to start the shipping.
If you would like to see more pictures of my car please email me and i will send you all the pictures that i have with it .
If you agree with my above terms, I'm sure that we can close the deal as soon as possible.
I reserved the car for you until I'll have your final answer.
Cordially,
Cheryl Turgeon
too good to be true i guess.
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Yep. Something like this was in the lounge a few weeks ago. It's a Negerian scam. He/she will tell you to send them the money to Athens and switch and say to wire them the money to Nigeria.
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Always use an escrow company (that you've chosen, not them) on this type of purchase. If they don't agree to escrow, back off, it's probably a scam. Every once in a while, " too good to be true", is true. We've just become so skeptical that we miss the really good deals. Just always make sure your 100% protected.
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I was looking at a 66 GTO on eBay a while back and got the same exact email from the seller, but with a different name, and they wanted me to Western Union a $3000 deposit to somewhere in England. I suspected it was a scam, so I wrote back and told them I wasn't interested anymore, but I had a friend with the FBI that collected classic muscle cars - I got an immediate reply saying that the car was no longer for sale - when I tried to reply, the email address was no longer valid!
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Just call Lufthansa Air Cargo in Athens, Greece and find out two things: Do they have the car ? How much does it cost to send a car from here to there ? The answers to either or both of those questions will tell you what you want to know.
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Originally Posted by rlsouthworth
I was looking at a 66 GTO on eBay a while back and got the same exact email from the seller, but with a different name, and they wanted me to Western Union a $3000 deposit to somewhere in England. I suspected it was a scam, so I wrote back and told them I wasn't interested anymore, but I had a friend with the FBI that collected classic muscle cars - I got an immediate reply saying that the car was no longer for sale - when I tried to reply, the email address was no longer valid!
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I got the same basic letter four different times from different ebay sellers when I was looking at 63-67 Corvettes this summer. Car is in Italy, belonged to my dead grandfather, need the money to pay for shipping, yada yada.... only selling for $8000. Each time ebay cancelled the auction before it was completed.
The scams are out there folks....
The scams are out there folks....
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