i posted my car on some places to see if i could sell it. well i got an email from a guy from nigeria who said he had a client in england that wanted my car so he wanted to know the details and see through a couple weeks we negotiated a price. over a month period he would email me and tell me that the money orders were gonna were gonna be there soon. now the whole time he was nice and asked me certain things and would let me know about the special shipping since it was being sent to england. now some of you might read this and tell right away that its a scam but my aunt and uncle work for a guy in england, they buy cj-5's and other military style jeeps and send them back on containers. they actually make some sweet dough off of it. but anyway after a month and a half of emails i finally got the money. he sent me an extra 2200 dollars which he told me was for the shipping (i was supposed to give it to the company when they picked it up). well the money orders came from the post office so i went up there and told them what was going on and wanted to make sure they were real. she holds one up in the light and goes, well, let me double check. so she pulls one out of her drawer and holds them both up and to both of our amazement the one he sent me was off on two places, other and that it was dead on. now i dont know if anyone has seen money orders from the post office but they are like the 20's, they have the hallograph thing in it along with the bar code through the middle. she was amazed at how close they got it since they made so it couldnt be duplicated. so after talking with the manager he said that it is getting pretty popular over seas on ripping people off this way. they will send over the money order and tell them that they are sending more over for shipping. so like in my case he gave me 2200 for shipping. if i went up and cashed the money orders then forked over the 2200 then by the time the bank would have realized that they were fake then my car would of been on its way overseas, i would have been out 2200 bucks plus w/e fines i owe for taking money out that i dont have. so basically in short, if someone wants to buy something from you and they live overseas, think twice about it. the manager i talked to said they go for anything, in value from 50 bucks to apparently 5000 dollar cars and up. so be carefull and if i help one person on here from this then typing all this was well worth it.

 

Wow many that's crazy stuff. At least they didn't get your money or your car though.

P.S. Use paragraphs! I had to highlight each line as I read it haha.

 

has happened more than once.

 

that was a close call man. good thing you had them double check it