This feels like a scam

So, trying to sell the Suzuki to get rid of debt. Traded emails with this guy until I got this.

Hi there, Thank you for getting back to me. I'm ready to pay your asking price.To be honest, i wanted to buy this for my father ,he has being there for me and doesn,t deserve something less but the issue is I'm a marine contractor and i just got a contract which i am doing presently and The contract is strictly no call, due to the lack of reception on the sea area,,But I'm able to access email anytime as we will make use of laptop so my only quickest payment option is PayPal as i can send money via PayPal anytime.Moreso i choose paypal for this transaction cause i want to avoid the scams going down on the internet this days,and want the both party to be on a safe side cause paypal security measure is unbeatable.Since I'm requesting this transaction to be done via PayPal, i will be responsible for all the pay pal fee/charges on this transaction and if you don't have an account with paypal, its pretty easy, safe and secured to open one. Just log on to www.paypal.com. I hope we can make the purchase as fast as possible? I have a mover that will come for it once payment clears and they will be handling the title for me.So i look forward to hear from you soon. Many thanks.

Suddenly alarms are going off in my head. The "marine contractor" makes me wary, but I also know it could be true. The buying the car for his father seems like he's trying to tug on my heart strings.

What's throwing me off is wanting to use PayPal. While they aren't the best, that would make it a little harder to scam me. Plus, he says they wouldn't take the car until the payment cleared, which would make them the worst scammers on Earth.

What do you guys think?

its a scam

scam 100%

No name, nothing listed about the product

Scam

Scam. Even the way he words things says so. I still remember the guy who wanted to test drive my carburetor.

FlightService wrote: scam 100% No name, nothing listed about the product Scam

This is like the 4th or 5th email from him. I already have his name and in his first email he asked specifically about the car in question.

What's the angle though? I guess he could start to send the money, say there were problems and he needed to car. Yeah, probably a scam.

I can wire money from my bank via the internet. It's worth offering that option to see if he's indeed serious.

Open a throwaway bank account, of course.

Scam. 100%

Scam, I received this exact response when I was selling the wrangler. Delete it and move on.

You can google pretty much any sentence in that email and get piles of scam warnings.

I knew it was a scam after the first two sentences.

Tell him you want the money via e-mail transfer - way slicker than PayPal.

But it is a scam - that will probably make him take off.

I did the Google thing. Wow, this guy is busy, but not very creative. Seems that he has figured a way to scam with PayPal by claiming non- delivery, or some such thing.

They wont come pick the car up or anything, they scam you by paying more than your asking price - they present you with a fake Paypal invoice scanned saying so - cos you need to forward on the extra amount to the "mover" so the funds can be cleared ... cos thats just how paypal works .....

You send the money to the so called ";mover", they disappear into thin air, you're still left with your car and out of pocket $...

Report it to Paypal but waste his time for a while first right up to the point you have to pay the "mover".

cwh wrote: I did the Google thing. Wow, this guy is busy, but not very creative.

very busy .. http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=en&q=i+am+an+hydrographer+and+i+am+buying+this+for+my+Dad

Drewsifer wrote: Suddenly alarms are going off in my head. The "Marine Contractor" makes me wary, but I also know it could be true. The buying the car for his father seems like he's trying to tug on my heart strings.

LOL. Well I was in the Marine Corps. and I am currently in the hiring process for one of the government contractor companies(DynCorp). When you are a government contractor, you are tied to the federal government and the contract company, not a branch of the military. It doesn't matter what kind of contract it is either. I call BullE36 M3 because it is bullE36 M3.

Look at the properties of the scammer's included "PayPal" link. It may well redirect to a phishing site.