James Leisten <[email protected]>

From: James Leisten <[email protected]>
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I will be offering you £1450 for the car and the payment will be made
via bank wire transfer, so kindly get back back to me with your bank
details such as bank name, account number, sort code and account name
for me to proceed and make the payment into your account and once the
payment has been made i have a pickup agent that will come for the
pickup of the car from you address. i await your response to proceed
and make payment.

James Leisten <[email protected]>
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I was just about to make the payments for the car when i had this
little problem with the picking up, i just got an email from my agent
that he won't come and pick up the car unless i pay him the agent
commission fee first in order to be able to schedule a pick up time
for it, my pick up agent head quarters is at UK and all payments made
for pick up from anywhere in the world is sent to their head quarters
in the UK and the only form of payments they accept is western union
money transfer and i tried to pay online but i will need my credit
card to make the process which i didn't bring on board and there is no
post office or any western union agent on sea! so i have to ask you to
help me with the pick up fees as i will include the £650 they charged
to pick up the car to the payments i will send through
paypal, after i have made the payments, i will need you to help me
send the £650 to my pick up agent through western union money
transfer, the western union money transfer can be made at a post
office near to you as there is always a western union agent in most
post offices. I will be making the payments shortly and will email you
as soon as it has been done.

Thanks


From: James Leisten <[email protected]>
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That is what they charge me for the pickup of the car and have it
delivered. am not really worried about the money once car is delivered
safely with no scratch. payment will be made shortly and will get back
to you


Thursday, 10 March, 2011 22:07:20PayPal Payment Notification: Temporary Hold Pending Verification (Routing Code: C840-L041-Q999-T5365) Confirmed.
From: "[email protected]®" <[email protected]>


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Dear


This email confirms that James Leisten has just sent you £2,170.00 GBP.

View the details of this transaction here

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Payment Details

Transaction Date: Mar 10, 2011

Purchased From:

Purchased By: James Leisten

Transaction ID: 4UN6GJUKL68Y8YEU


Item # Description Quantity Price Subtotal
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Seicento Fiat

1
£1,450.00

£1,450.00





Agent Fee: £720.00



Subtotal £2,170.00


Total: £2,170.00 GBP.



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This is to inform you that you are required to send a sum of £720.00 to the address below via western union money transfer and get back to us with the relevant information which you will be provided with after the money has been sent, you are requested to email us the Mtcn (Money Transfer Control Number) ,sender's name and address used to make the transfer and also the secret question and answer.As soon as we have received these information from you, we will credit a sum of £2,170.00 GBP to your PayPal Account. Below is the address where the money is to be sent to using western union money transfer.


Agent Information


Agent address: Name: Ursula Clossy
Address: 20 Rayens Cross Road
City: Long Ashton
State: Bristol
Zip Code: BS41 9EA
Country: UK.



Status: Confirmed


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Please note: We wish to inform you that James Leisten has made his intentions known to PayPal that he will like £720.00 to be sent to the recipient's address above via Western Union Money Transfer.

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This payment has been deducted from the buyer's account and has been "APPROVED" but will not be credited into your account until the MTCN # is sent to us for verification, so as to secure both the buyer and the seller. Below are the relevant information required before your account could be credited:

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All you have to do is to reply directly to this mail with the MTCN #, Secret questions and answers and the sender's name and address used when sending the money.Once it has been verified and the details above sent to us, you will receive a " CONFIRMATION E-mail" from Pay Pal® Service informing you that your account has been credited with £2,170.00 GBP.

Please, understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect both the Buyer and the Seller.We apologize for the inconvenience that has caused you.

Because of the inconvenience this causes we are giving you the next two incoming transfers for free! You will pay no fees for your next two incoming transfers*.

If fees would normally apply,you will not pay anything for the next two incoming transfers you receive.rcp7020
Registered Member

Posts: 1
Joined: Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:38 pm
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When a buyer (scammer) asks you to pay some money on to someone else (themselves) it's the clearest warning that you haven't reeived any money at all - and in this case, as you are aware, all you've been sent is a spoofed and worthless mail pretending to come from paypal.

I got an almost identical email from James Leisten, this time using the email address [email protected]

Several things seemed odd, he agreed to buy the item very quickly without any normal checks within less than an hour of me listing the item on gumtree.com.au, it all seemed to good to be true until at the last minute there was a problem with his agent whould would pickup the item.

The item was a boat, and he called it a car several times. His agent is in Istanbul and would charge $1300 to pick up a boat with a sale price of $2000.

Lucky I googled his name (James Leisten) and found your site because I could tell something was fishy. But you can see how people get sucked in to these scams. Thanks for your help.

It is nice to know putting infomation here has saved 1 person as you were kind enough to let me know, how many others have saved money ? Cheers

Welcome to ScamWarners sydunipete. It is great to hear you were not taken in by this scammer.

Yes, rcp7020, it is great when we hear someone was not taken in by a scammer. We don't know how many people have been saved by the efforts here, but it is very worth while.

I just got another one from [email protected]

The mobile number he used to initiate contact is +44 7933 357771

Initial contact it both cases was made by SMS requresting future contact to take place via email.