New Scam??????

[Clong]

Just had a call from the parent's, my dad is selling his motor bike and was contacted via his e-mail. The jist of it was that a african bloke is interested in buying the bike, however rather than send the money over to my dad he would get a client of his in england who owes him £4k to send my a dad a cheque for £4k, take the asking price of the bike and forward the rest onto him via bank transfer.

I told him to mail back and say that you don't want to get involved, maybe it is all innocent and above board, but it sounds a bit bizzare to me. Told him not to send his address out, just in case the bloke turns out to be in england and decides to help himself.

Anyone heard of this kind of thing before or am i being overlly paranoid?

[Akira0]

I'm sorry, but if someone wants to get a bike, or a car, or anything high dollar, then they would have the money handy from a bank check, or cash on the barrell. If they said "well a friend of mine owes me money, and I will have him pay you" I would hang up the phone, or reply to his e-mail saying not only no, but hzeeeel no. and :wave: goodbye.

Sounds like a scam to me. I would run fast, and far away from that situation. Maybe I'm paranoid too, though. :D

[ScoobyDoo]

just reply, sorry its sold