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kennySRi
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16th Oct 12 at 13:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hi, scams are usually really easy to tell but im a bit stuck with this one. I have a vader interior for sale from a bmw and somebody has been emailing me a while wanting them. I think he's from Latvia but his phone number comes up from India on google lol so that's alarm bells. However what i dont understand is that he says the courier will pay me in cash, what could the scam be here? If the money is legit then what could go wrong? Anybody dealt with something similar?

I usually wouldnt bother with anything like this but for some reason nobody else is interested in the interior
laingyla
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16th Oct 12 at 13:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Some one from Latvia bought my mates micra :s we were soo confused why come 100s of miles just to buy a shifty micra for £500
kennySRi
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16th Oct 12 at 13:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by laingyla
Some one from Latvia bought my mates micra :s we were soo confused why come 100s of miles just to buy a shifty micra for £500


I've heard of them buying cars here a lot but never heard of buying an interior. Im very confused by it all. If he wants to send a courier to my house and has the cash on him then il go for it. Im not at all confident that it's going to happen though
BarnshaW
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16th Oct 12 at 13:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
get a pen which checks the money and if its all good then i see no problems?
kennySRi
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16th Oct 12 at 13:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah il be checking to see if it's real and obviously get the money before he loads the van up. He says the courier will come on Friday so we'll wait and see
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16th Oct 12 at 13:51   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
just make sure you arent on your own, maybe its not a courior but some heavies who will just take it from you

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flybikeslee
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16th Oct 12 at 13:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
fella from turkey did it with a gearbox from a civic i had years back. a massive truck turned up and couldn't fit down my cul de sac. haha
daymoon
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16th Oct 12 at 14:14   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
There is a lot of vans taking parcels/passengers from Latvia/lithuania/poland to UK and back on same route. The guy could just give them money so that they could pay you. His number should start with +371 which is Latvian international phone number code.
Whittie
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16th Oct 12 at 14:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
A guy has just bought my mates Lexus 4x4 for 3K over the book price from Bangladesh.

Now that is a scam if ever i've heard of one, but it went through smoothly
kennySRi
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16th Oct 12 at 14:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Tomnova16
just make sure you arent on your own, maybe its not a courior but some heavies who will just take it from you


I thought that but it's a bit extreme for just a £300 interior

Probably is just a van that travels across the UK or wherever to take things back to Latvia, we'll see if it happens on Friday
alan-g-w
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16th Oct 12 at 16:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
The guy's probably got a Latvian mate that does Latvia to Britain deliveries
M2RTY
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16th Oct 12 at 18:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ive bouight a BMW sat nav system from latvia, was fine
M2RTY
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16th Oct 12 at 19:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ps whilst in Turkey last week I heard a guy say he sells iphone 5s in turkey for 3 million lira each

thats over a million quid, god i love bullshitters
laingyla
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16th Oct 12 at 20:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Give it a go might pay off dude
kennySRi
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19th Oct 12 at 07:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Some dudes in a van turned up half an hour ago with the cash and took my seats Really was as simple as that, good times.
Hammer
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19th Oct 12 at 08:05   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I'd tell them to sling their hook as I'm a major cynic and I'd rather not have some Eastern European tramp scam me.
kennySRi
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19th Oct 12 at 08:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Good thing i didnt tell them to sling their hook

 
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