Apologies for this, but thought you'd like to hear the latest scam.
I'm involved to a degree thru the sale of an e30 316. But please heed the warning!
This has been noted in the magazine 'Practical Classics' so please take note:
Scam going around at the moment, a buyer contacts you by e-mail only, from another country, say Nigeria/Sweden etc, says he wants to buy the car and ship it back to wherever! he then, after a few mails, says that he has a shipping contact in the UK who owes him a favour/money etc, he then says he will forward a cheque the figure asked PLUS £2000 for the shipping, when you recieve the cheque you are to present it and at the same time forward the 2k to whoever he says. You say he'll have to wait until the cheque clears, OK he says, when you recieve the cheque he/they then put pressure on you to release the car as the ship is going early, and because of the pressure he's hoping you will forward £2k of your own money on to allow the shipping and to get them to pick the car up, the cheque then bounces and you'are £2k out of pocket. If you tell them 'no they have to wait until the funds have clearance', he/they then threatens you and your family etc etc (that becomes more pressure for you to release the funds).
So beware, the Met (UK Police) are after details of all those that have been affected in this scam.
BEWARE.
AG
Linear Mode
