Malaysian Trademe/Paypal Car Scam

[cabalnz1]

Yes I have the exact same email and have forwarded it to PP and have looked up consultant.com and find they are hosted on domains@world.com in the states so tried to email them!!

Ha Ha I used to live in Harrow in my OE years so I will look up the agent!!

Transport Company UAB"Kuršiu Linija"
Address:
Name: John Mosley,
Address: 28 tookey close
City: Harrow .
State: Middlesex
Country:United Kingdom
Zip Code : Ha3 9uf


What do you think about them having people in NZ?

Cheers

Peter

[Foggyone]

What do you think about them having people in NZ?

I think it's unlikely. Too easy to be tracked down. Many of the local scammers have come unstuck for this reason.

[cabalnz1]

Well it has been going on all day - I have used my old ploy that I cant send the money without an ID or PP copy and this is what I got back:

I am finding that the major number of scammers using this passport number 000078004 (there is a host of them around the world) are bloomin NIGERIANS not Malaysians.

That explains why they only want $900

Cheers Pete from Peter

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[cabalnz1]

Further to my protestation I said the Post Office would not accept the 'dubious' passport and so he sent me the latest on for his 'agent' which matches the first name he gave me but wait for it....

Yes but you wont believe he is on the Dubai Police Site 10 most wanted in Dubai for MURDER = hell what are we getting into here?

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Of course I have reported into the Dubai Police

What next?

Any suggestions Peter?

Cheers

Peter

[digidog]

Joshua Bruce is from Melbourne. His passport was one of those stolen and copied by Mossad and used in the murder of Hamas figurehead Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January this year. So the person in the photo is an Israeli agent, not Bruce.

Adelaide newspaper report...

You might want to point out to the scammer that his "agent" is wanted for murder, and possibly not the most reliable person for the job.

[cabalnz1]

Yes - I have read all the stories especially from his Mum. Anyway this is the third name all at the same a/d in London - I have nearly run out of time wasting so I might have to give in soon and stop being a complete dumbo!!

[cabalnz1]

My message to him:

Hi

I have to ask why you are using an UK agent and how well do you know him – will he be the one that gets the money from Western Union?.

How is he going to make contact with us in Auckland and where is your Father going to pick up the car.

We have very good agents who will deliver the car anywhere in NZ as long as the paperwork is signed.

We will need your Father drivers licence number before you take the car as we need to put it into the new owners name and LTSA require that information

he replied

"Thanks so much for the mail and i hope you have a wonderful weekend.i just want you to know that i really trust my agent as he has been helping goods for long so as soon as you send the shipping fee to him he will contact you and come over for the pick up and about the signing of document he knows how to work that out so he will come over as soon as you send the shipping fee to him.
thanks so much for the business and be sure to kindly let me know as soon as you help me send the shipping fee to him."

my reply

Mate – what are you talking about – it costs more than $900 to travel to New Zealand………

[cabalnz1]

So far I have given him an inflated price $26000 not $21000 and the wrong place to pick up the Car = Auckland

Can I complain about TV here?? Got up to watch the final ceremony at 5 only to have other garbage shown!!!

Could have had more sleep..................................

Got another idiot yesterday
"manta (view feedback) has filed a claim through the Disputes Tribunal Claim Center against you. Click on the link below to go to the Disputes Tribunal Claim Center.
Disputes Tribunal Claim Center
Happy trading!

The Trade Me Team
http://www.trademe.co.nz" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

but not TM as usual a phishing email from a site that was taken down within the hour - well done

domain: auth-trademe.com
created: 02-Jul-2010
last-changed: 02-Jul-2010
registration-expiration: 02-Jul-2011

nserver: ns53.web.de
nserver: ns54.web.de

status: CLIENT-TRANSFER-PROHIBITED

registrant-firstname: Juergen
registrant-lastname: Hoennl
registrant-street1: Lutherstr. 53
registrant-pcode: 73614
registrant-city: Schorndorf
registrant-ccode: DE
registrant-phone: +49.718183575 +49.718183575
registrant-email:

So be careful as always.........................

[cabalnz1]

His reply

thanks so much for your observation as i am contacting another agent now i just don,t know what is going on but thanks so much.i will get back to you with another agent details

[digidog]

Can I complain about TV here?? Got up to watch the final ceremony at 5 only to have other garbage shown!!!

That early start gives TVNZ the opportunity to feed you a lot more TV commercials. It always pays to check kickoff time in advance. What a pity it was such a lacklustre game in the end, but well done Spain. They deserved the win.

[cabalnz1]

From what little I saw the Closing Ceremony was very good - typical TVNZ - thats why I normally watch TV3 - agreed - Spain were the best

[scamhater]

Hi Guys
We were targeted only last night with our van that is listed on trade me. We received a text from an interested party asking if the vehicle was still available, and to please email them at clrainsbury@gmail.com which we did. We received reply:

Hello,
Thanks for the swift reply, What is the lowest price you can sell the car and i want you to get back to me with more pictures because i am not available at the moment, i am in Malaysia and i will be using the car here in Malaysia. I will be handling the pick up of this merchandise through a legitimate shipping agent that has their headquarter situated in Malaysia. The reason why i am buying the car abroad is because cars here in Malaysia are very expensive and you can only get them in new so i hope you can understand why i am willing to buy the car from you because it's better than getting one here. The car will be picked up after
you receive the full payment.
Hope to read from you asap.

Thought it was weird with them wanting MORE pictures, but apparently they wanted pics of the dash wtf?? We said there were plenty of pics already...

We received:
Oh yes i got it now, i just checked this on the site, however the only way we can conclude this transaction is via PayPal, I have been duped via check and bank transfer before and i am unable to deliver cash, that is why i selected PayPal (http://www.paypal.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ) as a mode of payment because PayPal is the best online payment,so both of us could be on the safer side, awaiting your decision because i really need to pursue this buy sincerely and i will be expecting you to get back to
me with your PayPal email address and your full name for making the payment. Paypal would contact you about the pick up details after the payment has been done.
Regards

By now, it was 1am this morning, so we told them we wanted to conclude the transaction in the morning.

Their response:
Hi, I am satisfied with those i saw on trademe, i can make the payment now, that ain't no problem, all you need to do is to send me your paypal email address and your full name for making the payment.

We were tired so left this open till this morning. Lucky for us! With a few misgivings, just before we were going to send the relevant info, we googled Trade Me Paypal Car Scams...and what do ya know!!! Here we are.
After reading the stories here, to stop the BS, I e-mailed the scammer back saying the vehicle was stolen last night and gutted by fire - in Hamilton! We are in Christchurch so anyone with even a couple of brain cells and a little local knowledge would know this is highly improbable.
We have not received any reply as yet - maybe they have gotten the message?

Disappointingly, There doesn't seem to be anything posted on the Trade Me site drawing any attention to this sort of scam. This could go a long way to preventing this from happening. Equally, by reading the postings here, there doesn't seem to be anywhere else to turn to either.
We have now spread this to our friends and family (thanks Facebook!) so hopefully they will pass on the message as well.

[cabalnz1]

Well done - true it is a shame no one is even interested - TV3 News did a quick report about a month ago but it still it goes on. I have not had one for a couple of weeks but have had my Paypal account hacked and a whole lot of transactions made - totally unrelated to this lot and Paypal have had to pay me back several thousand dollars USD which is not good for them.

I would have thought these idiots would have the message by now.......

But no..............

[digidog]

While some people are wise enough to perform a Google search, not everybody
is that web savvy. Be in no doubt that these scammers do find victims or they
wouldn't continue to operate the scam.

Well done Shane for sussing these guys out early.

[ribbzy]

hey i had exactly the same scam happen to me, thanks for your comment as i may have been scamed if i did not read your message thhhhhank youu and i hope those scammers rott in hell haHA