Hi!

I too got a message from "danhab82" or Daniela or what ever you wanna call her/him concerning my bike that I'm selling and I talked to her thru email and she liked the price and everything without seeing the bike!? She wants to pay via paypal because she's from Austria....The number is +12675926818

I got also first e-mail from Buffet Persson ( +180230265101 /  buffpert12@hotmail.com) about my car and few days later sms from number +14129069455 asking to repply to e-mail address danhab82@hotmail.com if it is still available.
Just egnored both contacts.

I am selling a car in Finland and mr. Danhab82 wants to buy it.
But it seems to be better not to reply to his messages.

Everyone knows that cars are very expensive in Finland, so this is also a good joke. Who would buy a car from Finland, but Danhab.

I had my bike for sale in Oxl portugal,and recieved sms from the above number.few hours before that I had the same sms from a 157 number.
the email was danhab82@hotmail.com

Do you really think this guy is buying ALL these cars from all these people who posted here?
Also, he would likely spoof an email from Paypal making the seller think the funds were sent when they actually were not.  

Also, sometimes these scammers might offer more than the selling price and want the difference wired back to them via Western Union.  Then the payment is found to be fraudulent, and the seller is out their item and their money.

What is the scam ???
everyone is saying its a scam but how do u know ? I give out my paypal account to many people for years with no problems, you have to if u want people to pay you on ebay.

I RECIEVE A CALL YESTERDAY AT 8:45PM THE PHONE NUMBER IS: 157-176-22-409 I DO NOT WANT RECIEVE MORE CALLS OF THIS PHONE NUMBER.

I was selling my Car on Olx & Within few mins I recieved an E-mail from jerrysowex@gmail.com .
      how i wish to come and see what am buying but am at the sea at the moment as i am military marine engineer that why.give me your bank account or paypal i will paying you directly into one of the account without any delay.you do not have to be worried about the pick up i have pick up agent,am going to make all the payment both your item and the shipper so get back to me with the details below :
     In Later E-mails , He sent me his mobile number     +15743615130 . When I googled the Number , The First Link sent me to this Site . THANK YOU Google for Helping me out of this Scam .

I'm selling my car on Gumtree atm and within a hour of having it up I recieved a txt to email captaincraig11@gmail.com with my price etc which I did. He send the exact email as above which I thought sounded odd, googled it and this site came up thanks for letting me know just saved me a lot of time and money.

The guy almost had i was a little sus but i didbt think of it than i actually went to the post office just to see if they had any similar sitiations and they did.

yeap, just got that. exactly same line. I'm selling stuff on gumtree. though so it's suspicious. tqs guys!!

Selling a car on gumtree and within 10 mins of posting it I received an sms requesting that I contact him at captaincraig11@gmail.com with my lowest price.  Thankfully I googled his gmail and found this thread!  Damn scammers....

Any clue where this is from?

Selling a bicycle on gumtree & within a couple of hours of posting the ad, I received a text message from this number +1 (612) 460-7917, that said "I saw your ad on Gumtree...What is your last asking price? Kindly get back to me at my email captaincraig11@gmail.com"

I was a suspicious so I googled the email and found this site. Thanks for the heads up.
Damn scammers.

captaincraig11@gmail.com - this guy sms me and wants my car what a scammer. I dont know what hes gonna scam because I didnt take it any further i googled his email and other people say hes a scammer so im just gonna believe them. He wrote this:Hi thanks for reply, i am a marine engineer, i am at sea right now. I
am buying this for my son as a surprise gift. I can only pay through
paypal at the moment as i dont have access to my bank account online(i
dont have internet banking with it), but i have it attached to my
paypal account, and this is why i insisted on using paypal to pay,all
i will need is your paypal email address to make the payments, and if
you dont have a paypal account yet, you can set one it cant take you
less than 3mins to do that, i will be expecting your paypal email so l
can pay. I have a pick up agent that will come for the pick up after
payments has been sorted, l will be waiting for your reply asap..

what a scammer

+(571)2818451
That's the scam artists new number, placed an ad on gumtree and received a reply quite quickly with the same story and email mentioned above.
Asked after PayPal account details quite quickly and he said he has an agent will come and pick it up.
Thanks google for finding this page whilst looking up the email address after being suspicious of this email.

nigerian  /  africa  fraud  scammers.........



 The first tip off is the subject line of the E-mail. In many examples the scammers usually just copy and paste your item description directly into the subject line of the E-mail. Second big tip off is in regards to shipping. The scammers almost always offer to take care of arranging shipping themselves. They may also mention paying with a Cashier's Check or PayPal in the initial or second E-mail. Suspicious E-mails may also use all capital letters, have bad spelling, request more contact or banking info from you, will not be concerned with the condition or price of the car, and will probably claim to be a re-seller or agent for someone else. If any of these things are in an E-mail you receive you have a scammer on your hands!


Additionally, if the buyer is claiming he is at sea at the moment and has limited access to the internet, it is a scam. They will most likely be using a free E-mail service as well. Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail are common ones but there are many more worldwide. If you do not recognize the domain of the E-mail (the part after the @) just copy and paste it into your browser and go check it out. If it is a free service be very wary.

I am selling a car on eBay Australia. Almost immediately I received an SMS wanting me to email     
captaincraig11@gmail.com . I did so and got the reply:

Hi thanks for reply, i am a marine engineer, i am at sea right now. I
am buying this for my son as a surprise gift. I can  only pay through
paypal at the moment as i dont have access to my bank account online(i
dont have internet banking with it), but i have it attached to my
paypal account, and this is why i insisted on using paypal to pay,all
i will need is your paypal email address to make the payments, and if
you dont have a paypal account yet, you can set one  it cant take you
less than 3mins to do that, i will be expecting your paypal email so l
can pay.  I have a pick up agent that will come for the pick up after
payments has been sorted,  l will be waiting for your reply asap..

This is a well known scam artist who has taken many people on Australian advertising sites - just google his email address and you'll see how. These people are scum.