[email protected] Andy Baghdatis

received exactly the same e-mail today.... tx for your warnings. I found it rather strange they didn't discuss about the price I asked

Welcome to Scamwarners Jumpie,

What email address and same message did the scammer use?

Thank you for the PM. I will post the scam email. This scam attempt was on a car listed on autoscout24.be .

[email protected]
Andy Baghdatis

Hi,

Thank you for getting back to me. Can you assure me that it's in good state and that i will not be disappointed with it. I'm ready to pay your asking price and to be honest, I wan to buy it for my self and the family, but the issue now is that i have just been called up to work abroad in my company and now all is set as i will be leaving the country with my family in few days to abroad to start a new life so the car would been going to United Kingdom because that is where i have just been posted. Since we are all set to move abroad soon we have had to block all the tides linking us to Sweden as the family already had their hearts set on moving abroad to start a new life in United Kingdom.

So because of the short space in time my only quickest payment option will be PayPal as i can send money with it anytime any day as i will be able to make most of the internet for the time being. Since I'm requesting this transaction to be done via PayPal, i will be responsible for all the paypal 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 http://www.paypal.com. I hope we can make the purchase as fast as possible. Already i have been in contact a private shipping agent in United Kingdom who is my friend. He will be coming for the pick up once payment is done and confirm, The agent will be the one to take care of very necessary paper for me. So i look forward to hear from you soon. I would like to see more pictures as i will also need your home address where the shipping agent will meet up with you.

Many Thanks

Thanks .i have the same story.i sell my car on autoscout24 to.he wants me to pay shipping fee via PayPal int'l. He sends me fake transactions form pp
-Price of merchandise
-Price of shipping fee.

Same here! selling my car via autoscout24.nl
He already arrange the payment via PayPal and ask me to transfer 500 euro to the Western Union Bank via PayPal. This was not an email from PayPal (i called them).
I will not answer his emails anymore - so glad that i found his name via google.nl on this forum!
I felt stupid!

The paypal payment would have been fake from a fake paypal email address. No money would have been transferred into your Paypal account. The fake Paypal email is believable with phony screenshots. The best way to verify funds are in your paypal account is to log in directly without any links.

The scammer will make a fake over payment to you. He will later send an email from the fake paypal address telling you the funds are on hold until you pay the mover/shipper via Western Union or Money Gram.

Paypal hold is a lie. And he is setting you up for future western union payments to him / shipping agent.

Please note: You may receive more scam inquiries. The scammer will have the same basic tactic. Instead he wants to send you a fake check or Money Order

This scam is still active as at Sept.05 2013.
Received email from this scammer in response to an advert in Autoscout24.be for a car. Not only is the english used poor grammatically, but the email is actually nonsensical. I was suspicious when I first received the email expressing interest because of the way language was used, then came the scam with the suggestion to use PayPal.
The actual email is identical to one posted previously.
My suspicions were confirmed once I began to google the name etc and quickly found references to the name Andy Baghdatis in Scamwarners. So I joined up to post this.
Murox.

Welcome to Scamwarner murox,

Thank you for updating this information. If you get further scam attempts please post the email address, text number and a couple of the initial email exchanges.

The scammer will ask the Seller to cash a fake Cashiers Check / Money Order / Certified Check that is for more than the price of the 'item'. He will then ask the Seller to send the over payment to his Fake Shipper / Agent by Western Union or Moneygram to pay for the pickup and shipping.

The check / Money Order will be fake it will look real. Do not deposit or cash it.
Even if your bank tells you that the check/Money Order has cleared, it does not mean they will take responsibility for it when it is returned. They are required by law to give you access to money within a few days.

But later, when the check/Money Order goes to a clearance house or the original bank, the check/Money Order will be returned and you will be held responsible.

It can take days, weeks, or even months for the fraud to be discovered and you will be required to pay all of the money back, regardless of who sent the check/Money Order to you. The bank also may have you charged with 'Financial Fraud'.

This same scam can be done with Fake Paypal Payments. The scammer will send you an email pretending to be from PayPal with Payment Made. He will then tell you to pay the mover / shipper / agent via Western Union or Money Gram. If you send money by this method. You will never see it again.