selling a car - sounds fishy?

[king nero]

I'm trying to sell a car (in Belgium), and got an e-mail (in english) what the asking price is,
I replied with my price, and got this as reply:

Thanks for your email. Your asking price is quite reasonable and affordable considering others I've seen lately, I'll take it, so I agree with the price and I'm please the condition of it. I will be paying cash via PayPal and I have a private agent that will come for the pick up after payments has been made. I’ll also want you to take off advertisement to be sure you are selling the item to me. Due to work i won't be able to call you and inspect it but i am much please with the description of the item and I believe I can trust you with that.

Kindly send me your PayPal email address so that I can transfer the money in, I insisted on PayPal because i don't have access to my bank account online as i don't have internet banking.

I will be expecting your email.
Thanks

Fishy or not? What can someone do with my paypal address?

[Nemesis]

Definitely a scam

They will be using dodgy funds which might clear, but then will be reversed when paypal catch on

[Melv]

Agreed.

Tell them to pay their "agent" via paypal so that he can come to you with Euro's.

[king nero]

Thx.

I'll think I'll hold on to this one a bit longer... 419 bait style, or what it's called

[BigDave1979]

Post the ip addresses from the email header. Bet they come back as Nigeria or Ghana.

[c20letian]

Post the ip addresses from the email header. Bet they come back as Nigeria or Ghana.

+1

[corsakristian]

scam all day, paypal is never a good option with things like this.

[king nero]

Received: from mailings.concentra.be (mailings.concentra.be. [84.199.90.70])
by mx.google.com with SMTP id fr16si2988995wbb.84.2011.12.08.00.31.35;
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:31:37 -0800 (PST)

[wkdkris]

ha defo a scam! someone tried this with a laptop i was selling haha, some bloke even turned up from UPS for it, f'ing dooo one! address was nigeria lol

[hellonpluto]

you'll get a "pay pal" receipt similar to this:



I wound this guy up who i knew was a scammer selling him a car that i didn't own.

[Tathan]

Rule:

If you have to ask yourself "Is this legit?", it isn't.