Long distance purchase
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Joined: Aug 2007
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From: Canton, IL
I hope you haven't given this person ANY personal information yet. If so, start calling your bank, and credit cards and ask them to verify all transactions with you personally. give them your Cell to call that way they can stop the fraud before it happens.
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That website does not look genuine. The format is different from anything on MSN.com. If it is legit you should be able to go from msn.com and from links there get to this site. You can't.
Yes, you can click on links and it brings you to msn things but that is all they are, links. The other info can be easily copied from msn's page.
RUN!
Yes, you can click on links and it brings you to msn things but that is all they are, links. The other info can be easily copied from msn's page.
RUN!
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Joined: Oct 2004
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From: N. Carolina
Thanks for the welcome. So far this transaction is working well and I'm at piece with the financial transaction via msn money. The program seems to favor the buyer but provides the seller with the funds in an escrow account. I'll let y'all know if it all goes down the tubes.
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From: CA Bay Area
I bought several vehicles long distance. Lack of diesels in California and my love for travel makes for nice vacations while making good deals on cars.
My rule is never pay any money up front. Only once I paid $500 deposit when it was required on ebay, but later was just ignoring such requests.
The only time I got stiffed was when I got too lazy to fly to Texas to pick up cheap Mercedes for my son. It was cheap, but not cheap enough. The car barely made the 20 miles from shipping terminal home, while the shipping company recorded 36 dings and paint scratches.
Escrow (if legitimate) helps, but it cost extra and there is not many things harder to standardize than "car in good condition"
So my advise -consider flying and hold the return ticket.
My rule is never pay any money up front. Only once I paid $500 deposit when it was required on ebay, but later was just ignoring such requests.
The only time I got stiffed was when I got too lazy to fly to Texas to pick up cheap Mercedes for my son. It was cheap, but not cheap enough. The car barely made the 20 miles from shipping terminal home, while the shipping company recorded 36 dings and paint scratches.
Escrow (if legitimate) helps, but it cost extra and there is not many things harder to standardize than "car in good condition"
So my advise -consider flying and hold the return ticket.
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Joined: Aug 2007
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From: Millersburg, OH
Yeah I was wondering the same thing BillyBob. I hope it all works out for him but I have a feeling it didn't/won't.
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Joined: Apr 2006
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From: CA Bay Area
"Nigerian scams " run around for several years. I was hoping everybody knows how to figure them out?
I usually play with those guys who respond to my selling adds and send me $3000 check for $200 item asking to wire the difference "to the shipping company"
They allow me to keep additional $70 for the trouble.
Have whole box of those Money Orders.
I usually play with those guys who respond to my selling adds and send me $3000 check for $200 item asking to wire the difference "to the shipping company"
They allow me to keep additional $70 for the trouble.
Have whole box of those Money Orders.
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Joined: Mar 2010
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From: Sale Creek, TN
Dang, it was a nice truck too, lol.
Again, thanks y'all!!!!!
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From: Millersburg, OH
Glad to hear you didn't get scammed! Good job on collecting everything and turning it over. Hopefully someone will do something about it but I won't hold my breath. Of course I'm the one who said it didn't/won't work out well for you. 
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From: Canton, IL
Thanks y'all for alerting me to the scams. No, I didn't get this truck but they also didn't get my money. In fact I strung it along, saved everything, and turned it over to the FBI Internet Fraud Division and to Autotrader. Doubt it will do any good but I tried and would love to stuff these guys away for a while, a long while. Problem is I saw the same truck back up for sale a couple states over. I again alerted Autotrader.
Dang, it was a nice truck too, lol.
Again, thanks y'all!!!!!
Dang, it was a nice truck too, lol.
Again, thanks y'all!!!!!