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Anonymous
07-19-2003, 10:29 AM
Hi, ive recieved a email from these peopl, too. I went through with the deal not knowing it was a scam. This "keith lawson" sent me an email saying he wanted to buy my car and he's working for a client blah-blah-blah. So he sent me a cheque of £2800 when my car was only £900. Then soon as i had told i had recieved his cheque, he told me to send the shipment money back to him the next day, and i was like " what's going on here?" i straightaway told him that he'd have to wait 3 or 4 days for me to find out whetrher the cheque cleared or not. He replied to me saying i had to send the cheque to his secetary as his son was poorly. How convienient. Come Froday the cheque bounced and i owed money to the bank, then as i was about to e-mail him back telling him to send another cheque i found that i had recieved this email from usercarmart to do with these scams and SINCE then i have told him the deal is off!! SO BEWARE AND THANKS A LOT TO USED CAR MART WHO TOLD ME OF THIS NEWS, U JUST SAVED ME A LOT OF MONEY AND MY CAR, THANK YOU!!

imported_admin
07-21-2003, 09:28 AM
Zaman,

Glad they never took you for your hard earned money! I am battling with these guys to get them to move on. Whilst I offer a free service I still value the advertisers. As of this weekend I have implemented some impressive antispam filtering that will hopefully filter out these guys.

Remember! You would never buy a car without seeing it ... so why would anyone else! If in doubt blow them out

Iain
www.usedcarmart.co.uk

Anonymous
08-12-2003, 09:37 AM
Could have happened to me too but I smelt a rat and luckily a neighbour told me off the scam. I had an email from a guy called Richard Momoh who was based in Houston, USA and wanted to ship the car to West Africa. He was going to send me 2500 uk sterling blah, blah, blah. It was too good to be true so I checked his name on Google and it brought his email address and hundreds of others that are scammers.

Avoid anything overseas I'd say......