[In Pursuit]

Thanks, at least that gives me a few possibilities.

Let's just hope they've slipped up somewhere!

[ShallWeDanceTonight?]

[In Pursuit]

It's okay, I knew what you meant!!! HAHAHA

[lukel]

Scammers also trying to cheat on renting a flat. Sorry for cross posting but I want to increase chance of reading that to be sure that no one will be cheated again. Read my reply here and in case add your own scammers:

http://forums.gumtree.com/viewtopic.php?p=1834369#1834369

[lookhappy]

[abeman]

This still makes me laugh, I was trying to buy an xbox 360, this is what he sent back to me:

Thanks for the interest,the item is still available for sale ,and all our item is brand new and its a premium package and comes with a full accesories and we are on new year promo that why we are shipping to your doorstep for free via Ups delivery service,and payment is via money gram post service. and the games coming with your item is as follows.

1)G.T.A(grand theft auto 5)

2)Mortal kombat(the ultimate)

3)Teken 5(rise of the warriors)

4)the call of duty

5)final fantasy
and if you dont like these games.get back to us with the games you like okay.
do get back to us with your delivery address so we proceed.delivery is 6hours

Happy new year

---------------------------------------------
This e-mail was sent using Mail.md


Me -
hahaha, that confirms it, good luck trying to scam somebody else, but i'm not an idiot.
Here are a few tips for next time:
Try to offer games that actually exist, GTA 4 isn't in the shops yet, how do you plan to get me GTA 5?

Do you really live in the UK? Not likely, you have a moldova email address!

Do you really expect me to pay for something via money gram (something I have never heard of in my life, and I do a lot of online shopping)

I hope you had a sad and lonely new year,
Polite as always,
Abe

[Char1]

Hey All,

I received this one today,



My Response: Pastor My Arse!



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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:13:14 +0100
From: katherinelow1_1brook@yahoo.dk
Subject: SV: RE: Price For It
To:


Hello,
and Thanks for the mail,I will like you to know that my mode of payment is based on certified cheque which i am goimg to inform my church co-dinator to issue you the cheque because i am coming over there for a church confrence so as soon as you have recieve the cheque you pay the cheque into your account then as soon as it clears you deduct the cost for the room and western union the excess funds to my personal assistant which is going to use to take care of my travels ticket and visa and the cheque of £ 4,000 will be issue to you as soon as you have forward me all your contact details that is the;
Name........
Contact Address..........
Zip code.............
State...........
Phone Number..............
As soon as you have got me this details the cheque will be made to you immediately
N.B
By the way i am coming in the next six months and i am going to pay for one month rent and one month deposite so the remaining balance i will want you to send it to my Personal Assistant which is going to use to take care of my travels ticket and visa.........
Thanks......

From Me:
The room is £100.00 per week, it includes heating, water and council tax.
It is available from 27th of January for the 6 months that you need The deposit is £200.00.



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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:48:25 +0100
From: katherinelow1_1brook@yahoo.dk
Subject: Price For It
To: rooms2rent@crescoproperty.co.uk




Good Day, I am pastor Katherine low...i will like you to know that i am interested in renting your room for 6Months because i am coming for a business conference in set and i will like you to tell me how much it will cost me to rent the room and all the bill i have to pay when i get there .Get back to me asap. Thanks And God Bless You Katherinelow.........

[chelseaboi89]

Hi...Im new to gumtree, but I do beleive to have been scammed.

A company called Raymond textiles offered me a job, here is a brief description of what it entails in an email she sent to me:

JOB DESCRIPTION

1) Receive payment from Clients
2) Cash Payments at your Bank
3) Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.
4) Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you
will be contacted to send payment to(Payment is to forwarded either by Money Gram
or Western Union Money Transfer )

basically, i signed up, and gave them the bank details of an account i no longer used, which had no money in whatsoever...
I thought, whats the worse that could happen?

I was emailed over the course of 2 months sporadically, until one day i was informed that £4,900 would be paid by wire transfer into my account.
All i had to do was go and withdraw it, and forward 4000 through westeren union to someone in Nigeria.

Like a complete fool, i actually did this, and got 900 as a 'reward'.
Not much of a reward, as next day my card was swallowed, and when i investigated inside the bank as to why, they said the money sent to me in the first place was sent fradulantly, and i will be hearing from the fraud department shortly.

Anyone any experience of this? Or any ideas as to what i should do?
I have all the emails which i could print as evidence, but i doubt the scammers even can be traced at all.

Should i contact the police or hope it all blows over???
Please help,

Josh M

[mavster]

you fell for the greedy trap

if it sounds to good to be true it always is

and now you are an assesory to the crime

[montyzuma]

scammer on the liverpool gumtree
offering 10 nokia n95
if i did what he said as long as he had the mctn no he could lift the money.

i sent him a picture labelled mctn which is actually a picture of a richard the third


Mister

and you live in UK yes???

show me that a proof ,if you have the money 800£ for this 10 x phones Nokia N95 cash .
and you will put the money 800£ in what name you want(best friend ,mother, father, uncle, wife, but the receiver address will be on same country United Kingdom and i will see with my eyes the payment is ok ,and you will send me the scan copy trough western union(sender full name and address and receiver full name and address and MTCN#), and immediatly i will send you the package firstly from your home fast away, with what service courrier you like when you have the package in your hands and you will check and is ok , you can call from your bank and change the receiver full name and address and put the money 800£ in my on full name and address to receive the money 800£ on my 10 x phones Nokia N95 okey?
tell me your decision final as soon as possible.

[montyzuma]

new email scam first w-u one ive seen nigeria branch hee hee



my reply below the email




STERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER

Dear There is an issue with the WESTERN UNION MONEY
TRANSFER in the
amount of $10,000.00 USD directed in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03, at the owner of this email address. The International Monetary
Fund contacted us for your compensation a couple of hours ago due to your
allocated security code.They said that they choose to send it to an
email address instead of a name. We are unable to complete a transfer
directed at an email address,so we require some more information in order
to complete this transfer.

FULL NAME:-----------------------------------
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS:----------------
MOBILE PHONE NUMBER:----------------------
OCCUPATION:----------------------------
MARITAL STATUS AND AGE: ------------------------

In order to resolve this problem,please email us immediately. As soon
as this information is received,and you have complied with the
requirements of payment of the western union charges, payment will be made to
your nominated bank account or at the counter directly from The Western
Union Transferring Bank. When emailing,please use reference number
250-147 for our mutual convenience.

THE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER,OFFICE NIGERIA BRANCH.

Sincerely,
Timor Chris

EMAIL:unionmoney34@yahoo.com

Western Union Payments As we focus on making a difference in people's
lives, people focus on Western Union and acknowledge the possibilities
we offer to those we serve UNITED NATION

reply

reference number
250-147

our ref UR 8@


w-u only requ a name

pay it to Mabawza Ritchie

and send me the MCTN no immediately

[sherji]

lex.groupex@yahoo.com

New Apple iPhone 8GB ,Unlocked in all network .in original boxes
£ 219.

http://www.escrow.uk.pl/
its fraud escrow service.

i think there is no site review and not found by google...its totally fraud...

i dont know exact trade link, so i cant put here...but take care....

[lookhappy]

Hi guys,
I recently got scammed on the gumtree - a guy was advertising a playstation 3 as an unwanted christmas present, and I was an idiot and fell for it.
Again - too good to be true.
But thankfully I paid using paypal, and I got in touch with them as soon as I realised what was happening and they were great, really helpful and they've also refunded me my money.

So I just wanted to post a quick message here to say that it was resolved, so hopefully other people who have buggered up have hope too

[thefinalkiller]

why wont these scum never learn....perhaps its because they need to be tied hand and foot in opposite directions and slowly torn apart so you can wonder at their skins strechiness and witness the glorious sight of their arms popping out of their sockets but the ligaments are two strong to give way so a tear gradually starts for form on their underarms as it slowly creeps across their stomach until finally it rips open and their innards find freedom in the outside world, and their screams of pure fear and pain echo in your ears and they have realised that their moments of agony have ONLY JUST BEGUN!!!

or you can just forget about the whole thing and learn from it....

[eir]

Hi. I've responded to 3 bicycle ads around the GBP 500-1000 price recently, and all 3 have been scams. Usually the asking price is one or two hundred less than it probably should be.

This is a global scam that is targeting many classifieds and auction websites. It is easily recognisable, since the idiot scammers copy the ad word for word across all the sites. The sites include gumtree.com, ebay.com, craiglist.com, loquo.com and markt.de.

For example, if you search for the title of one of the below ads in google, you will see the same dodgy ad posted on many sites. eg. "Cervelo R3 SL 2008 FULL CARBON with Dura Ace and HED"

The first was this one: http://www.gumtree.com/london/14/18539114.html
This guy said he was out of the country and wanted me to send money to Germany. I said I'd come to Germany to pick it up, but didn't get a reply, strangely enough.

The second was this one, from Sydney: http://www.gumtree.com.au/sydney/56/19577756.html
This guy said he was out of the country and I needed to send money to England. Again, I offered to pick it up in London but no reply...

The third is this one: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&view=page&name=js&ver=1fw5x9xpjs5cw
Who didn't answer my simple questions but asked for the money straight away, and then I googled him to find he was in craigslist in San Francisco aswell.

Hope this helps someone.

[eir]

Oops, that last link should go to a bianchi bike, but the scammer has since taken down the ad.

[the_tidy_kiwi]

Thanks for letting us know about these scams. I have taken them down now.

The quickest way to report these to us is to click the 'report this posting for review by Gumtree admin' link, which appears at the bottom of each ad. One of our moderators should view the ad and remove it.

[shugg99]

Be aware of a seller called chmelrifi seller is advertising B&W 802's for a great price, however the seller has advertised these as being in Sheffield, the ad was placed in London gumtree and apparently when you offer payment on collection, they announce that they are in the Isle of Man.

Under no circumstances send money to this seller, you will not see your goods.

[caferacer]

Hi watch out for overseas offering free post / shipping motorbikes etc..(if it seems too good to be true it usually is )He went to the trouble of taken pages from a shipping website and gave me a tracking number ..
I was lucky just managed to get back over 1000 euro this morning that i sent by moneygram (what a muppet )felt so stupid but lucky , person in question still thinks i am in process of sending it another way ,thats why i cant name him at the moment .He is so desperate to get the money he has given me his sisters address in london but he is in for a big shock it will be like sunhill lol.I first smelt a rat when he gave me his name spanish origin , but rang me speaking like Bob himself (marley) that is ..I actually felt ill when i started to realise not the money as such but the idea of how stupid i was .. ah well be warned , dont know why some people cant just go out and get themselves a FUCKING job.........

[montyzuma]

the sisters address will prob be fake and he is prob nigerian

sorry to any legit nigerians but 419ers are really dragging your countrys name in the mud

like romanians

[strawberrystone100]

Hello, My name is Andrena and I am from Greece. I have
> the apartment for rent, the rent is 500£ per month
> this includes all bils. My husband was from UK and he
> wanted the apartment in London. Last year we had an
> accident and my husband lost his life. I also lost my
> hearing in the car accident that we had. Now I live in
> Athens, Greece. I have received another offers today
> about 50 proposals and I want you to know that I only
> let the apartment if you pay in advance the rent for
> two or three months. The location is on Montagu Court.
> Parking available on street. Close to Edgware Rd. Tube
> and Marble Arch. Thank you again for your interest.

Its a con!!!! the next stage is money tranfers...bbbrrr

[Tree_2008]

Here is a scam i got today


Group Head quarters
Stallion Holdings
P.O.Box: 43659
12 Erickson avenue
Pa,Philadelphia 19139
Registration No. : 04686969

STALLION GROUP OF COMPANY LIMITED is a Big parasitically in United Arab Emirates.We produce and distribute electronic toys and parts and anymore .We have reached big sales volume of electronics materials in the Europe and now are trying to penetrate the United
Kingdom market.We have decided to open representative offices or authorized sales centers in the United Kingdom and therefore we are currently looking for people who will assist us in establishing a new distribution network there.

WHY DO WE NEED YOU?
The international money transfer tax for legal entities (companies) in US is 25%, whereas for the individual it is only 7%.There is no sense for us to
process payments as a company when we can cut costs by processing payments as individuals.That's why we need you! We need a very honest,active and good listener who will be ready to heed instructions given to them as agents to work for us as our representative in your state.
WHAT WILL BE EXPECTED OF YOU
1. Relieve payments from Clients via Cheque, money Orders Bank Transfer or Credit Card Account
2. You earn 10% discount on every transaction you processed and you will be paid 3000pounds monthly.
3. Forward balances after deduction of your discount to any of the offices you are directed to.
HOW MUCH WILL YOU EARN?
10% from each Transaction! For instance: you process a 5000pounds payment 500pounds is the (10% of 5000) for yourself and you will earn 3000pounds monthly! At the beginning your commission will be10%, though later it will increase up to gradually as time goes on.

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES?
You do not have to go out as you will work as an independent contractor right from your home office.Your job is absolutely legal.You can earn more
than 3000-4000 monthly depending on how dedicated you are to this job.You do not need any capital to start. You can do the Work easily without leaving or affecting your present job. The employees who make efforts and work hard have a strong possibility to become Managers.Anyway our
employees never leave us due to our excellent work condition.
WHAT ARE THE MAIN REQUIREMENTS?
18 years or older legally capable responsible ready to work. PC knowledge e-mail and internet experience (minimal).And please note that Everything is absolutely legal.If you are interested in this Lucrative job.you would have to fill our employment form below and return it to me.
if your presently employed (although been employed would NOT reduce your chances of working with us) So get back with the filled form and let start doing business....We have payments pending and would like you to start with us as soon as possible.

Here is a copy of the form...

EMPLOYMENT FORM
Refrence No:- A32A2/2031/ 8161/05
Batch No:- R4/A32B/2-61

First Name:
Middle Name:
Last Name::
Address Line 1:
Address Line 2:
City:
State:
Zipcode:
Home Phone:
Cell Phone:
Gender:
Marital Status:
Age:
Nation of Origin:
Which bank do you bank with:
ATTESTATION.
According to how you have been briefed earlier. You are required to receive payment on behalf of the above mentioned firm. You are to deduct 10% of all funds processed on a particular order & forward the balance payment via western union or money gram to any of the company's regional warehouses that will be given to you later and you will earn 3000pounds monthly. You will notify the company a week ahead if eventually you want to discontinue this job.So as to terminate all payment coming your way in order to avoid conflict.
In agreement to please this kindly append signature below.
Signature:
date:

Thanks for your anticipated action.We hope to hear back from you
Very Respectfully,
MR DAVID LARRY BS, PhD ECONOMICS
RECRUITING PERSONNEL
STALLION GROUP OF COMPANY LIMITED

[pook3y]

well i got this one today as i am selling my car


Thanks for the mail,the price is okay by me i will like see the pics if is available, also i will like to inform you that am having an associate in the U.K and that associate of mine that is owing me(£2,000) and is willing to issue out a verified cheque on my behalf i will have to instruct him to issue out the cheque to you then you deduct the said amount and make the remaining funds send to my shipping company for their upfront mobilization fees for them to come over to pick it up.he will also be responsible for signing the purchase document. if this is okay by you i need to have the following information in respect of receiving the cheque ,where to address the cheque to:


Full Name,
Full Home Address,
City,
State,
Zipcode,
Phone Number,
Cell Phone Number,

hope to read from you again.
Thanks


NB:I am ready to make an additional £40 to consider it sold to me and have the advert remove from the website and also deduct any other incurred tax... i will like you to ensure me that you are the own because i dont want to involved in stolen properties. and i will also await the cheque to clear first in your bank before my shipping agent commence pick up..



but the funny thing is i work as a police officer in essex and i decided to edge this man on as i could lead him or his fellow friend to scotland yard for a debrifing .

i cant wait till i catch the people who find it funny to do stuff like this .

[helencap]

Do not reply to the following who is another dodgy 'buyer' stevemcphillies@yahoo.com
Tried to get me to send my vehicle details to him and provided a false address and contact details.

[kimboW]

I have had 3 ads on Gumtree for around 8 weeks and the only interest I've had is from two separate scam artists! Since having my details on Gumtree I'm also receiving at least 1 scam email every day trying to get my personal details and promising lots of cash. I will be removing my ads and not using Gumtree again. Thanks for nothing but hassle! Details of the scam buyers as follows:-

Thanks you for the prompt response to my mail enquiry i'm quite satisfied with the condition and price.I'm very much interested in buying from you and i would like to make an outright purchase immediately so i will advice that you withdraw the advert from the web.I will be paying with a certified check.

Furthermore my mover will be coming over for the pick up as i might not be available for the pick up myself i would have loved to come and look it up but presently i'm not chanced to do that but am OK with the information from the ad.I will need the following information and details to make payment arrangement

1,Your full name to be on the Payment.
2,Your postal address.
3,Your phone number both land and mobile.
4,Your postal code.

Send me the following information as soon as possible.

Regards



Hello
Thanks for the reply.... I am a Canadian and I live in Canada.... I only buy goods from UK and Ireland and ship them here through my shipping agents who are in Edinburgh, UK...

As soon as an aggreement is reached, i will contact them to mail you on how the item is to be picked up. If you dont mind, I will you acheque for the item I;m buying form you and this cheque will have an excess fund on it after you might have deducted the money for the goods I bought and the rest will be send to Global courrier in UK. This covers my shipping dues and charges as I have some other items waiting on my shipping list......

please get back to me to know the next line of action.....

Warnings of a scammer are:
Wanting to pay by cheque
Overseas buyer
Not wanting to view the item or collect it themselves
Willing to pay over the odds for an item
Grammatical errors in their email