Selling bike on MCN trouble

[short1uk]

My bikes be on for like 2 mins and I got this email

Hello&Goodday
I am intersted in purchase of your bike but first i will like to know some things,which are:
-How long has bike been with you?
--Where did you first purchase the bike from?
--How many owners has the bike had?
--What is the bike's annual mileage?
--Has the bike been damaged?
--Does the motorbike come with the spare keys?
--Do you have the bike document and is your name on it?
--When was the bike last serviced? --
Why are you selling the bike? --
-which other site did you paste the bike?
Lastly the bottom line price of the bike.? I will like you to mail me back
with the anwsers to the questions above and i will like you to know,so mail me back as soon as possible. Best Regards,
Mrs Brenda


i respond slighty thinking can you not type you spack. So I fill it in with bought it from a shop etc.

replies with this

Thanks for getting back to me i will like you to send the pics ok..I wanted the bike for my son he is always with my neighbours bike so i want him to have his own bike.However the price is ok by me.Please I will like to inform you that my agent will have to be in your location for the pick up as soon as the payment gets to you and have the bike send to me through ship.As it is now you will be recieving a cheque of £4,000 from my husband who is in the state for a construction work he is very busy as the chief engineer of fresse construction company.So as soon as you cash it,you can go ahead to deduct the cost of this bike and an extra £20 for the neccesary things for the bike.and have my balance send to my agent for him to proceed to your location for the pick up of this bike and some other things my husband bought in the state.Please I will like to have your mailing address and your phone number where the cheque will be send to so that my husband could get that ready fast.
Hope to hear from you soonest
Thanks
Mrs Brenda


ok so where shall we let them rob? because thats what they want to do as we can see from the above mail! £4000 wtf!!! I said £1400!!!!! PMSL

How thick are they!

[Ste]

It's a scam. If something seems too good to be true, then thats because it is.

[craigs23]

Had a very similar email when selling my RVF, something about them being happy to pay my price and then having the bike delivered/shipped somewhere.

I pollitely said that the bike had already been sold (even though I bunged the thing on Ebay a week later) and heard nothing more.

[Villers]

They don't only make the assumption that you are stark raving bonkers, they dont even think it through to start with.

One of the best I got was when a bloke claimed to be the 'Prince of Belgium' and he thought my bike was 'perfect for him' etc etc etc. Now at the time I was selling a 4 year old RS125. Who in their right mind would not imagine his highness himself not only on a 125cc, but knocking about on my old RS with a huge following of body guards behind him.

You will get many more of them emails by the way
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[lllN30lll]

why respond politely?


why not tell them to build their own bike out of tin cans, stupid Nigerian scamming c*nts

PS if your not sure it's a scam then simply google whatever they've sent you.

i googled one sentence from him and it's come back with loads of replies from Scam websites, it's obvious that people get spammed with the same message.

https://www.scamorama.com/sales_scam.html etc.
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Turbo R1
CRF450R

[8316]

sounds like a scam
tell them to stuff it
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Now own a Fireblade!! Speed Limits? Bah!

[andrea]

what do you think would have happened if you'd given them your address? what are they upto?

[short1uk]

well obviously i wouldnt have given my address (my look thick but i am not that thick!)

but i was thinking some thing along the lines of

69 cockermouth road
cockinthehole
cocksucker state
Bum Hole

Ar5e H01e

[Ste]

[G]

[jay12329]

I've had 20 or so of these e-mails so far whle trying to sell my hornet. Just bin em and keep hopeing someone real is interested.
J

[Stoo]

I got loads of these when I ws selling my Kymco. I drafted a template response saying all was good and gave them my work address. It costs them money to print & send out the fake cheques so I thought i might as well get the scamming cnuts spending as much as they could for nout back. Even got one guy to send me a cheque for £25 cos I told him my bank charged "a special presentation fee" for bankers drafts. Stupid bastid

[extreme3d]

[Stoo]

Essentially what I did, except I didn't have the bottle to put the cheque in the bank. Didn't want my account flagging up with the fraud squad as being "linked" to international scammers!!

Think the funniest one was someone saying they wanted to export the Kymco to Taiwan.......hmm, thought they might already have a few there already......thought it was me having a problem with Kymco spares.......

Just got to watch though, they WILL phone you, I gave them an old PAYG mobile number that I didn't use anymore

[lee8040]

[michael j]

Neither can you......
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[2Smoke]

You have a bite! Work using some of the ideas used here www.419eater.com hehe
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Currently in the stable.. '89 TDR250, 86 NSR250 '79 350LC, '79 DT175MX, 82, Pasola, '98 R1, '95 Speed Triple.. all of them total sheds..

[Johnny GSX-R]

WOAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Stop there, don't do it!!!

I've just dealt with a scam like this very recently and the guy had his account bled dry by the scammers AND had his car nicked, it was only a wanked out Nissan too and it was found 220 miles away.

It IS a scam and they will aquire your bank details and bleed you for all your hard earned!!!

BE WARNED

Johnny

[Louise]

Anything to do with Weston Union I wouldnt go anywhere near.
Partner got scamed out of 990 quid last year sometime.

[Mister James]

What people seem to forget when they try and scam the scammers is that Mr Umbongo may well be in Nigeria, but he most likely has friends and family over in this country to do any dirty-work he might require of them.

Not worth the hassle imho, just hit delete.
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>Soultrader Mister James, I bet you are a copper
>Bazza Wow. Eyes like a shithouse rat, you...

[athelstan]

If you want a bit of fun have a look here:-

https://www.whatsthebloodypoint.com/

It is, of course, important to give yourself a name like Norman Arseglop Stoatgobbler.

[colin1]

[romperstomper...]

I've just had a very similar mail and have given my name address mobile and home no. out ,he sounded genuine to start !
Should I be worried about giving out such info !
letter 2
Hello,
Thanks so much for mail,i really apprecaite your effort with this
transaction,am okay with the condition and aslo i will like to confirm your best price so far , so the payment will be in advance by bank check,
1) So get back with the name to make payment payable to..
2)Address to post it to...not a poxbox address.
3) contacted phone number both home,office,mobile, in which i can get in touch with you. hope to read from you asap
regard the pickup i will arrange for that okay.
regard,Mccord Tylerl

3rd letter ;

Hello,
Thanks so much for mail
1),Just to inform that i have agent that will range for the pickup of the item, it would by my agent that will do the pickup of the item to my destination
2), There will be some excess funds of £4200 with the asking price the payment in which as to be sent to my agent asap you cash the payment, for him to arrange for the pickup and do pickup one or two other consignment as well,
3)Because he will be on bussiness tour very soon,from there he will pickup the item, cos am on bussiness trip whichtake up to 4 week to back,asap you notify me that is okay by you i will implore my business associte to issue the payment within four to five working days you shall get it,also i will like you to remove the item from the auction and consider it sold to me. hope to read from you asap.
Note payment will be clear before the pickup will done which it will more convience for the both party, i will await your positive response toward a successfully transaction..
regard,Mccord Tylerl
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Yeah I know !

[0ddball]

Not really. It's very likely they are in another country. Ignore tham for now, if they mail you back or call you say the bike was sold/stolen ect.

[mooky]