Kiteroa 8 Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Seems this guy is pretty keen on Wild Thing: I'm okay with the price and condition, I am ready to buy it now as a gift for my dad, I am at sea at the moment as i am a marine engineer and due to the nature of my Job,so l won't be able to come and check it? I have arranged for a pickup agent( Shipper ) who will be coming to pick it up as soon as the payment is made and i'll like to pay u through paypal and do u have a paypal acct so i can make the payment of the funds PayPal account email: PayPal account Name: Phone Number: Anyone else had this problem selling a boat there? Link to post Share on other sites
bene_sails 0 Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 i got exactly the same thing with someone keen to buy my 3.7. word for word. fella didn't seem legit at all. i was suspect but seeing this has confirmed my cynicism... Link to post Share on other sites
Young Entertainer 59 Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 that's really funny, the guy also wants to buy Coyote, word for word. His dad must be a really lucky guy. Anyway better get him my paypal details quick Link to post Share on other sites
Kiteroa 8 Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 Looks like the second hand boat market is really picking up then! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 I had the same thing worded slightly different. I emailed them back saying I forwarded the email to trade me, have heard nothing since. Link to post Share on other sites
Atom Ant 0 Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 I had a person from the USA want to buy the Ant sight unseen once. Same wording more or less. Told him to pay the money to my solicitors trust a/c, and never heard from him again. Link to post Share on other sites
Island Time 1,235 Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Even if it was legit, there is no reason to give someone your PayPal info so they can hack your account. Paypal can produce invoices, that can be emailed and paid online without disclosing anything.... Link to post Share on other sites
Brendon 0 Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 It's a scam alright, there is no reason to give a pay pal name only an E-mail address. Had the same approach when I was selling a trailer sailer about 3 years ago, I was going to ignore them but got curious so sent them a reply without my pay pal name. I then received a fake message pretending to be from PayPal claiming that they had received payment into my Paypal account. This payment was claimed to be for my agreed purchase price plus an amount for freight, I was supposed to forward the freight amount to a third party freight company (in Malaysia), and once this was confirmed then my funds would be released to me. YEAH RIGHT!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Island Time 1,235 Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 sorry I did not mean to infer that it was not a scam. it definitely is! there is no reason ever to give your account details to anyone. same as your bank... Brendan, did you fwd the scam email to PayPal? they do try to track these people down, and would appreciate it. Link to post Share on other sites
SMU's Crew 4 Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 We thought we had someone scamming us recently on trade me with an item for sale for a few thousand. Whoever it was only sent texts in what was obviously a second language. I ended up opening a new account (love online banking..these things are so easy to do now) and gave him/her that. When the balance showed I still rang our bank to make sure it was a legitimate deposit, and we were still suspicious but he turned up a week later to collect. Nice chap! Turns out he is a chek national living in NZ with limited English. I was so convinced otherwise! Link to post Share on other sites
Kiteroa 8 Posted August 26, 2013 Author Share Posted August 26, 2013 I'm having real trouble setting up a paypal account for this guy. He's doing his best to talk me through it but I'm just not that good with computers, new to email, forgotten password etc. Although i do admire has patience. Scumbag. Link to post Share on other sites
philstar 61 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 nice one wt keep leading him along the path. Link to post Share on other sites
Mothership 6 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 1h40m. Had the guy - and his supervisor - sounding like they were ready to jump out any window they could find. I possibly could have mentioned I was using a Mac before the 1 hour mark, and probably shouldn't have turned on guest account on my machine (a dev machine that was about to be reformatted anyway) and let them log in with TeamViewer (my goodness that is tricky to set up!). I also probably shouldn't have had goatse (if you don't know, DON'T look) up on the screen with 'B*GGER OFF LOSERS' as the Coup de grâce. Link to post Share on other sites
smithy09 50 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I also probably shouldn't have had goatse (if you don't know, DON'T look) up on the screen with 'B*GGER OFF LOSERS' as the Coup de grâce. Too late! Looked! Nice job though! Anu chance of doing the same for the idiot who bid $4000 for my Ross 40 mast then did nothing? Has quite a history of doing this. bids but never answers emails, contacts the seller. Time waster!! Link to post Share on other sites
nanda k 0 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 exactly the same thing when my son was selling his car in australia, with gumtree, word for word also. Link to post Share on other sites
idlerboat 116 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I had an interested party, when I sold "Idler"....he needed certain details...... but under the circumstances, it seemed that I did too.... that is, I happened to need his bank details.....and a small deposit to clear some small things.... the more he did, the more I did... .....if you leave a mobile number on ebay for interested people you will almost always get a text message from a differant country... Link to post Share on other sites
Absolution 7 Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I've just had a text from a guy about Fineline... I can't reply to the text because it has no reply number in it and he's asking me to email him. Think I might have a scammer sniffing around too. Link to post Share on other sites
Kiteroa 8 Posted September 9, 2013 Author Share Posted September 9, 2013 Did his name come up as Chris on the text message? Link to post Share on other sites
Young Entertainer 59 Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 dam it thought I had sold coyote again!!! Link to post Share on other sites
ex TL systems 63 Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 just had a text from a chris wanting me to email him about my boat for sale will just ignore him Link to post Share on other sites
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