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Emphasizing 419's link in case you didn't check it out.
""Thanks for the swift reply and will like to purchase it.Can i pay you $9,850 USD for it? i will be paying you with my PayPal because it's attached to my bank account,If my offer is accepted send me your paypal email address so i can pay in right away,you can set up an account at http://www.paypal.com it is very easy and secure.I am a marine engineer on a rig offshore and do not have much time on me.Make sure you get back to me so that i can arrange for pick up as i will like the car to be picked,so no shipping included.I await your reply""
Common sense avoids scams like this.
Would you buy a car without ever seeing it or looking at it? No.
Would you pay more than the asking price of a car? No.
Would you give advice to a seller on how "quick and easy" it was to set up a Paypal account? No.
Would you have terrible grammar and sentence structure if you graduated college and started a career in engineering? We can hope not.
TLDR: It is 100% scam. It is good that you did some research online.
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I've used my email, it gives my first and last, and my phone number. My email address and phone are listed on the ebay page
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Ask how he will pick it up in person.
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On September 08 2011 08:57 419 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 08 2011 08:54 DyEnasTy wrote:
You know how I know thats probably a scam? Look at the punctuation. Its awful, no space after either a comma or a period. I know this from selling stuff on craigslist. Everytime a scammer contacts me, its always with odd punctuation (spelling is usually fine). Im not 100% why they do that.
Scam. trace the IP -- its likely Nigerian / West African in origin, which would explain the unique punctuation.
I'm just gonna leave this here since it seems ironic to be quoting someone with the handle "419" and the discussion recently shifted towards messing with the scam.
http://www.419eater.com/
Its a scam-baiting site for anyone who hasn't seen it before. Basically they reply to the scam messages and their goal is to string along the scammer for as long as humanly possible and waste as much time as possible. There are some pretty hilarious stories in the archive if you haven't read them before.
OT Edit - I wouldn't mess with the sacmmer. Simply ignore the message since I think its 100% fake and they already have access to your real information.
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