Could this be legit?
 

I posted on cars.com to sell my car and I got text messages of folks interested. One of tghem wanted to help sell my car for a $200 fee upfront, another $75, saying they could get it out online and in print, etc.

Another sent this..(Is it legit?)

"Thanks for getting back to me on this.I'm seriously interested in this posted AD and i will really love to purchase it right away. Kindly put off the ad right away and consider me as your favorite buyer.I'm buying it for my holiday,cos i'll be coming soon from our rig, am a petroleum engineer and am on a rig offshore,i won't be able to come for the inspection due to my work basis...,I will need this following details so i can proceed with the payment right away.
Are you the first owner :
I will like to know if this has been involved in any accident before :
What is your reason for selling it?
Your PayPal email Address:
Address:
Asking price:
I'm sorry, just want to be sure about the sale before i proceed
Regards"

no. fake.

Rule number 1 about selling online: if is it too good to be true, then its fake.

Rule 2: First with cash/money get the product

You are selling, if they really want to buy they need to show up with payment, do not bend for them.

Not necessarily fake. I have a few friends that work offshore on an oil rig. They make a killing and come home one week a month. The information he is asking for couldn't really hurt you, so even if it was a scam, it isn't a very good one. I would answer his questions without providing your information first and see how serious he is.

I bought my Z 98% over the internet from Afghanistan. ;)

I have responded to the guy. Let us see what happens.

GLWS, bro. :tup:

Really? This is a scam. This guy can barely speak English and he claims that he's a petroleum engineer? Plus he wants you to pull down your ad and he doesn't even know what the asking price is?

Scam after all.
 

He emailed me back as follows:

Thanks so much for getting back to me and for concluding about selling it to me,i really appreciate it,i am going to transfer the money into your account right now but before i do that,i will like to add the sum of 1,200 to the amount i promise to offer you and i will like to know if you would help me to transfer it to my shipping agent via western union money transfer to China. I email my shipping agent to inform him about the pick up arrangement and he told me that I will pay him a shipping fee of 1,200.00 before he can have it picked up to my house,my shipping agent will also handle the change of ownership on my behalf as he will come to your location with every necessary document need for the change of ownership, the change of ownership will be done between you and him, i tried to pay online but i will need a credit card which i didn't bring on board, and there is no post office or any western union agent here and which I find it hard to locate a western union money transfer office . I would have loved to wire the money to him through western union and that’s the only payment method he accepts,and my pick up agent head quarters is in China and all payments made for pick up from anywhere in the world is sent to their head quarters in China......I would be very grateful if you can help me to do that in which it must be through western union money transfer. Thank You and expecting to hear from you soon.Cheers.

I just send him an email that I have sold the car.

LMAO. Legit for suuuuuuure... :ugh2:

Those nutty Nigerians. Always up to something.

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Lol was in the same **** like a week ago granted i was selling a surf board not a car but almost the exact same story. Except in mine the lady was def and in the hospital that's why I needed to do the running around for her lol!!! Whata joke I wish I could pay all these f***ers a visit. Show them what happeneds when people f*** around

The sad thing is so many people fall for this sh!t

What's the plan here though like for me they sent me to post office checks for $900 a piece I was told to deposite and withdraw it. Then for me to keep the $400 they owe me plus $50 for running around. Then i send the rest via western union to a "shipper". And the shipper will come pick up the surf board. What could have been the outcome had I fallen for it. Are the checks fake or what?? Some of these scams seem very poorly thought out. Idk maybe I'm just not dumb. But an explanation for what they were attempting would be cool.

Probably have to send the $500 first or something.

This scam is basically this.
They send money into an account, wire transfer/check, you withdraw it since it initially clears the basic security checks, and forward the money along. A week later the back does a final review and finds it is fake/scam and pulls those funds from your account.

I saw a story on this a few years ago they were doing this to lawyers. It all looked legal, checked out, money went through, but after a week to ten days it all went south.

Your bank says that their check will need 10 days to clear and they say, the shipper is ready to pick the car up, please send $1200 to the shipper. You send the $1200, the shipper does not come, you call the bank and they say the check has not yet cleared!!

Yeah, last week I won a lottery from the UK. I received a letter (with $3750 check) and was told that I won $150K and that all I needed to do was send them back a letter stating that I was who I was.

My wife thought that this was our lucky day although I knew it was a scam. So, to the internet I went. All I had to do is type in the name of the Insurance Company and the word SCAM, and lo and behold, a scam that's been going on since 2007.

Do your homework and the internet can be your friend. If I were you, I'd run like he77.

I am a retired attorney and I do volunteer work with a local tv station working on cases where people have been scammed. This is a very popular scam. It is simply a counterfeit check that you are asked to deposit and then forward some portion to a third party. By the time the counterfeit check bounces you are already out the money you sent. The story often involves the "buyer" working on an oil rig or an Alaskan crab boat. It is ALWAYS a scam.

What the.....Who's that dork with my wife????

Well, it's over. Traded my 2010 370z with 43k miles, brace coupe, for a 2013 sports package with 8600 miles. Paid $8k difference. Went from a black to a gun metal sports package, wheels, breaks and spoiler. It feels a bit different when shifting but I do not know if it as sensible to pay $8k difference and whether the 2013 sports package is significantly a better car, 3 years newer and 35k miles less.