"marshknute" (marshknute)
10/25/2015 at 11:34 • Filed to: None
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"marshknute" (marshknute)
10/25/2015 at 11:34 • Filed to: None | 1
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I listed my WRX for sale last night, and about 12 hours later received a text at 5:19 am from someone asking about it. But I’m suspicious. Their text reads as follows:
“Do u still have your listed vehicle on car .com for sale? If yes, kindly email me at [his email] for further correspondence cause I’m at work.”
Now there are a few reasons why I’m suspicious. Firstly, it’s a Sunday. And a reverse email lookup shows his location as Mountain View, CA. 5:19am Eastern time is 2:19am CA time. Apparently he starts work at 3:00am on a Sunday.
Secondly, he used the word “kindly.” The first time I heard that term was from those Indian scam calls (“Your computer has been hacked, kindly send us your SS number...”). And I’ve only ever heard it used by Indian people (a LOT of my Carnegie Mellon classmates were Indian exchange students).
Maybe I’m paranoid, but I think it’s unlikely that there are any legitimate Indian buyers who work the graveyard shift on Sundays and are interested in buying a car that is 3000 miles away.
What are Oppo’s thoughts?
Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
> marshknute
10/25/2015 at 11:41 |
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“ further correspondence”
Thats the giveaway for me. No one outside of lawyers uses language like that, especially someone trying to buy a WRX.
Captain of the Enterprise
> marshknute
10/25/2015 at 11:41 |
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How much do you want for your wrx? I don't know where you live but I'm looking for a car around $5000 and live in SE Michigan
BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest.
> marshknute
10/25/2015 at 11:41 |
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Yes, likely a scam.
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> marshknute
10/25/2015 at 11:46 |
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He’s probably a Nigerian prince.
McMike
> marshknute
10/25/2015 at 11:46 |
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Text back, tell them you currently have two cars for sale, and if they could let you know which one they would to talk about.
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> marshknute
10/25/2015 at 11:47 |
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Yeah scam, the difficulty of registeering a non california car for something as common as a WRX makes no sense.
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marshknute
> Captain of the Enterprise
10/25/2015 at 11:48 |
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It’s a 15’ WRX limited with an extra set of gold wheels wearing new Pilot Supersports, so I’m asking over $30k.
But at some point in the future I would love to buy a $5K 02’ WRX to use as a winter beater.
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marshknute
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
10/25/2015 at 11:51 |
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Pretty much my thoughts. Though, to be fair, Indian grad students at CMU did talk like that. The Indian version of English is a weird overly formal version.
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marshknute
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
10/25/2015 at 11:52 |
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I’ve always wanted to meet a Nigerian prince!
Berang
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
10/25/2015 at 11:56 |
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but then uses “cause” instead of “because”?
M54B30
> marshknute
10/25/2015 at 13:06 |
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Just text him back and find out. If he answers with the usual scam points, then ignore.
RPM esq.
> marshknute
10/25/2015 at 13:25 |
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Mountain View is where Google headquarters is, and is the default location/time zone for a lot of their web apps and devices.