Email scam... again...

[Rediknight]

guys, i read this in MBUK and although its bikes in this case, it applies to pretty much anything being sold on the internet nowadays:

The story goes like this: Somebody owes the fraudster £3k, but there some problem with his bank account. So, he'd like to have the cheque sent to you, in payment for your bike. You bank the cheque and send him the bike and the change, keeping another £500 for your trouble. Too good to be true? Of course. It works because banks credit the proceeds of foreign cheques to your account BEFORE they are cleared. Fall for it and almost as soon as you wave goodbye to your bike and a sizeable cheque, you get a note from the bank saying the cheque failed to clear and their debiting your account £3k. If you get an Email in bad English offering over the odds for you bike, ignore it or report it to the police. If a deal pops up on the net thats too good to be true, it probably is...

Now, i know most right thinking people know this, but if its started again and has a new twist, i thought it worth a refresher...

wub you guys :wub:

 

[Mey]

haha MBUK have their sources wrong (with regards to the bank anyway), however if I said anything more I’d properly get arrested and or sacked..

 

[Darksword]

haha MBUK have their sources wrong (with regards to the bank anyway), however if I said anything more I’d properly get arrested and or sacked..

jobs are for suckers anyway tell tell

old scam been going around for years now it seems tho never heard it in the context of bikes

 

[Ezteq]

tbh if i get any mail from someone i dont know with bad grammer (and they always get my name wrong ) it gets binned asap, sometimes its not just scams theyre sending, some viruses come through on those mails too, you'd be well advised just to mark as spam and delete.