is this a Scam or NOt?
Hi,
I am emailing you regarding the 1999 Honda Accord EX. The vehicle looks and works perfect. As you see it has a lot of options. No hidden problems and never involved in any kind of accidents, ONLY 62,086 miles. Because of my divorce settlement,i own this car and as a woman without driver`s license i don`t need it so i`m trying to get rid of it as soon as possible(that`s why i`m selling it so cheap) so the first one came is the first one served. The sale will be managed by eBay Vehicle Purchase Protection Program for our own protection as they act as a neutral third part. This is the second time when I try to sell my vehicle…First time I tried eBay because every time I only use 100% safe methods and I’ve sent the vehicle through the eBay Vehicle Purchase Protection Program to a buyer from Alaska. I paid the shipping and insurance costs and when eBay requested the payment he refused to pay. Why? … because he agreed to purchase the Vehicle in the first place, but typically didn’t had the necessary amount to do so. …if you don’t have the funds available, you can’t get the vehicle. For the time being, my vehicle is on eBay’s hand and it’s ready to be delivered to the next buyer. My price on it is $1,600. The eBay auction ended last week and the guy from Alaska was the winning bidder. He could not pay for it. I need a new buyer to register to my eBay transaction. The vehicle and its documents are in the DAS auto shipping warehouse waiting to be delivered. It’s fully paid for, fully functional, the title is clean. Shipping, insurance and eBay fees have been paid since the previous transaction. I am a member of the eBay buyer protection program and using this service you will get a 15 days testing period after delivery. The transaction will be made only through eBay. eBay will be the third party that will hold the money till you will receive and inspect the car. If the car meets your expectations and you want to keep it you will have to tell them to release me the payment details so I can get paid. Reply me with your full name and shipping address so eBay can contact you regarding the payment and shipping process.
Let me know your thoughts,
Thanks,
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Well you should ask ur bank for a loan. they could deny it if that car was in a big car accident, if they deny it, its probably a scam
yes i think so
Yes, it is a scam, there is no eBay Vehicle Purchase Protection Program.
100% scam.
There is no car.
There are stolen pictures of someone else’s car.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
The next email will be from another of the scammer’s fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the “eBay Vehicle Purchase Protection Program” and will demand you pay for “shipping costs”, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
eBay Vehicle Purchase Protection Program does NOT work like that scammer described.
eBay Vehicle Purchase Protection Program does NOT insist you pay cash anonymously.
eBay Vehicle Purchase Protection Program does NOT send emails with crappy grammar, horribly spelled words and from a free email address.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his ‘potential sucker’ list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don’t bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn’t worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
If you google “fake car shipping scam”, “western union shipping fraud” or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.
SCAM
That is not how ebay works.
Ebay is ONLY involved with cars listed for auction that you bid on through Ebay, you win through Ebay, you pay through Ebay with your linked Paypal account.
Ebay does not act as a third party. Ebay does not allow vehicles to be shipped. Ebay does not give a 15 day testing period
DO NOT reply to this scammer or you are going to lose $1600