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Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:43 am

I just thought I'd throw this warning out to the membership.
I have my Westy for sale on a number of sites. My buddy has his Harley for sale as well. We both received emails a day apart that were exact- word for word . I google "Chilean Miner Scam" and found this.
http://www.scamreporter.com/scamview2009.asp?fldNewsID=2462
Heads up...those crafty devils are at it again.

Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:53 am

I wouldn't think the son of a minor would be old enough to drive. I guess they start early in Chile.

I wonder how this one works. Either they are able to get into your pay pal account somehow, or they get a refund after the vehicle is picked up.

No mention of sending extra cash to pay for the transport.

Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:13 am

My guess is they Paypal you extra money and ask for it to be sent back or forwarded to their shipper via Western Union.

Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:36 am

Somebody needs to come up with a good way to get these paypal scammers to try to buy the cars that don't exist from the craigslist scammers.

Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:18 pm

Bart Dunn wrote: Somebody needs to come up with a good way to get these paypal scammers to try to buy the cars that don't exist from the craigslist scammers.

I like that. Let the scammers fight it out between themselves.

Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:10 pm

He can't call you on his cell phone but he can email you from his cell phone.

That right there is where I call scam.

Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:03 pm

Bart Dunn wrote: Somebody needs to come up with a good way to get these paypal scammers to try to buy the cars that don't exist from the craigslist scammers.

Speaking of that... I have seen scammers email on scam ads on this site, before I could get it deleted.

Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:30 am

EverettB wrote: My guess is they Paypal you extra money and ask for it to be sent back or forwarded to their shipper via Western Union.

Sounds like what was going with my friend who runs a restaurant. They wanted to order a big catering event, so she was all excited, but they weren't in the area and needed somebody to do the driving. For some reason they couldn't pay the driver directly (and not a small sum either). So the scammer wanted to pay my friend extra money for the order to include the driver's bill, and then she'd pay the driver directly, and everybody would be happy. Except the scammer's check would bounce (I assume they found a way to do this on Paypal too), the scammee would be out the cash that went to the driver (and presumably the food, or car in your case), and the driver would split the cash with the person who couldn't use the phone (assuming they aren't one and the same person...maybe you would recognize the voice, so that's why it's all e-mail or I think in my friend's case, a deaf person using phone TDD system).

But there were too many red flags, and luckily my friend backed out of the deal (actually she asked for more details, including address of the driver, and they never returned the call).

Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:29 pm

I like it when they are really dumb and leave clues how to actually get ahold of them.

one guy used his scam email for his yahoo im also I was able to track and report him that way