Scam a scammer?

"duurtlang" (duurtlang) 07/06/2017 at 17:52 • Filed to: None

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I’m selling my classic and a scammer replied. The old ‘I’m at sea, I’ll pay you with PayPal and I’ll send a shipper over” trick. I was wondering if I can counterscam.

Anyone have any idea how I can take (some of) his money without risking anything myself?

Here’s his email:

Thanks for the response Does it need anything to be replace or repair? if theirs please specify,what is your last price? I will arrange for a private shipper to come over for picking it up down to my place after payment has been received. I will be making the payment through PayPal as paypal is very safe and secured for transactions online, advice soon as I’m at sea at the moment as a marine engineer and due to the nature of my work, phone calls making and visiting of website are restricted but i squeezed out time to check this advert and send you an text regarding it, I would appreciate if you email me with more pictures (if available) too,since i won’t be be able to see this in person, if you don’t have paypal account you can sign up paypal account at !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . I will need the following details below to send funds to in order for me to pay you ASAP.

Are you the first owner:

Your PayPal e-Mail Address:

full name:

What is your reason for selling it?

Address:

Price:

I await your reply

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HammerheadFistpunch > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 17:58

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You’re at sea? I was married to the sea once, Im afraid we can’t do business on account of some legal troubles related...mostly fines and such. Maybe we can work something out?

Wagonlife740 > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 17:59

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I’m waiting....

Honeybunchesofgoats > HammerheadFistpunch 07/06/2017 at 18:00

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So you’re saying your wife, your love, and your lady was the sea?

crowmolly > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:02

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Ask him to pay you in doubloons or pieces of eight.

ThePlasticOne - no diggities expressed nor implied. > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:03

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Just ask for a nonrefundable deposit to hold the vehicle until exact details can be worked out.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:06

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If you scam the scammer, don’t you become the scammer?

I’ll show myself out.

HammerheadFistpunch > Honeybunchesofgoats 07/06/2017 at 18:07

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unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > crowmolly 07/06/2017 at 18:10

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We can’t bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don’t go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m’shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you’d say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn’t get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:12

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Request a small deposit based on the full amount of funds being transferred and vehicle being picked up. Like 100 euros or something. If full amount is not paid then it’s yours.

McMike > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:12

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Some people do whatever they can to get the bad check from these people, and then hang it on the wall.

Future next gen S2000 owner > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:14

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Only accept gold when the werewolves come out to dance.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:14

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Tell him you got something else waiting for him along with your reply.

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Knuckle sammich.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 07/06/2017 at 18:16

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And to think I read the whole thing in his voice.

E92M3 > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:16

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I don’t think you can. He’s going to send more than your asking price, and ask you to refund the excess. Days later you’ll be notified his payment was fraudulent, but he gets to keep your refund. I guess you could waste some of his time and let him make the fake payment, and then never send him the excess. Every minute you waste of his, is a minute he’s not scamming someone else.

Chariotoflove > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/06/2017 at 18:24

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Ooo, I like this. He won’t do it, of course, but wouldn’t it be cool if he is just stupid enough to do it and send a token amount? I’d try something small, like 10 instead of 100 to increase that chance.

promoted by the color red > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:25

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Tell him you are willing to send a non-powered boat, so the question now is Row V. Wade and it’s his choice.

Nick Has an Exocet > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:25

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Tell him you compressed the pictures then send a german porn virus that was renamed to pictures.exe

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Chariotoflove 07/06/2017 at 18:25

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I’d like to see if the scammer even knows how to send money via pay pal. How many people fall for this crap?

Aremmes > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:30

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Not a car, but it should give you some ideas.

http://www.metafilter.com/33088/PPPPowerbook

Chariotoflove > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/06/2017 at 18:30

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I figure somebody must. I mean, there are still people who would never think twice about something that comes through snail mail or phone call but buy it without reservation if it comes over the internet.

404 - User No Longer Available > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 18:37

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Couldn’t really do the same thing since you’re selling a car, but this is a classic:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/p-p-p-powerbook

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 07/06/2017 at 18:55

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I read the oversteer parodies in Doug’s voice.

RPM esq. > duurtlang 07/06/2017 at 20:07

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Tell him you work in computer security, have ascertained his identity from the IP and metadata of his email (add some mumbo jumbo about hyperlink tunneling or something), and have passed this information to Interpol as the information matches your database of known scammers.

Shoop > HammerheadFistpunch 07/06/2017 at 20:27

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The captain wired in he had water comin’ in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

nicktherushfan2112 > E92M3 07/06/2017 at 22:11

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If you can get him to send the payment, give him a wrong address, to a friend down the street (have him in on this). Have the friend turn away the shipper, whether it be a company or some other third party. As to the payment, transfer the payment to a different PayPal account as soon as it will let you, as long as it hasn’t came up as fraudulent. But this is probably all too “grateful” of thinking, so it probably won’t even get this far. Best of luck!