Author Topic: Here's another CYCLE TRADER text scam! (Read 8717 times)

willowstreetguzziguy · « **on:** May 12, 2016, 08:40:39 PM »

ONE MINUTE AFTER I POSTED MY BMW K75S FOR SALE ON CYCLE TRADER, I GET A TEXT THAT IS HARD TO READ BUT.... IT READ EXACTLY LIKE THIS ...

"Hello .. my name is MARY MYER ,, i an interested in your listed Motorcycle for sale on CYCLETRADER .. please e text me back if you still ha"
"have a pickup agent that would help me to pick it up at your preferred location after you have received your money because i will be paying you with my PayPal account so if you have a PayPal account get back to me with your PayPal email, full name and your asking price (THE PRICE WAS ON THE AD) "so that we can proceed from there... Great! please consider it sold as i am willing to pay your asking price because i need to buy it for my cousin asap, i have read and me being in a wheelchair. I would appreciate if you text me with more photos (BTW, I HAD 12 PICTURES ON THE AD BUT I GUESS THAT WASN'T ENOUGH!) if possible since i'm unable to see it in person. I through the advert and i'm totally satisfied with it, sadly i would not be able to come personally to pick it up due to my hearing loss"

Incredible!!!!!! Who would fall for this crap?

leafman60 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2016, 09:13:55 PM »

Whatever happened to the Nigerians who needed to deposit $54 million in somebody's account for a month and pay them 10 percent for the trouble?

rodekyll · « **Reply #2 on:** May 12, 2016, 09:15:29 PM »

The part I don't understand is the hearing loss so severe it keeps her from picking up the bike. I would have thought the wheelchair . . . wait . . . maybe the deafness is so bad she needs the wheelchair to get around. . . .?

willowstreetguzziguy · « **Reply #3 on:** May 12, 2016, 09:21:01 PM »

I was surprised they didn't say they were blind and needed someone else to pick it up for them.

cj750 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 12, 2016, 09:48:13 PM »

The original scammers got rich enough that they no longer bother running the scams themselves, they've hired minimum-wage flunkies to do it for them. I have no idea what the Nigerian minimum-wage is, but obviously not enough to attract a high caliber of aspiring criminal.

oldbike54 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 12, 2016, 10:05:43 PM »

Interesting Jay , they are following the model used by organized crime for years . Wonder if the big boys are investing in dry cleaning businesses and car dealerships ?

Dusty

leafman60 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 13, 2016, 06:15:46 AM »

And what about the notorious Red Line Scam. Somebody duped a bunch of bikers into buying a case of Red Line oil for the price of one bottle!

drlapo · « **Reply #7 on:** May 13, 2016, 07:07:29 AM »

Quote from: leafman60 on May 13, 2016, 06:15:46 AM

And what about the notorious Red Line Scam. Somebody duped a bunch of bikers into buying a case of Red Line oil for the price of one bottle!

Yeah, and my penalty was 2 free quarts of oil

leafman60 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 13, 2016, 08:01:54 AM »

Quote from: drlapo on May 13, 2016, 07:07:29 AM

That shows you how inept they were!

willowstreetguzziguy · « **Reply #9 on:** May 13, 2016, 11:36:53 AM »

Oh, and did I say the scam response I reported here came came lightning fast... between the time I hit "submit" and I walked into another room to sit down!

guzziownr · « **Reply #10 on:** May 13, 2016, 04:03:38 PM »

Quote from: willowstreetguzziguy on May 13, 2016, 11:36:53 AM

Oh, and did I say the scam response I reported here came came lightning fast... between the time I hit "submit" and I walked into another room to sit down!

I read somewhere that initial scam contact was purposefully nonsensical to weed out intelligent people unwilling to trade cows for magic beans.

willowstreetguzziguy · « **Reply #11 on:** May 13, 2016, 04:27:26 PM »

Well, it weeded me out fast!

willowstreetguzziguy · « **Reply #12 on:** May 16, 2016, 09:32:36 PM »

ANOTHER UPDATE FROM THE ORIGINAL POST...

Last night I edited my cycle ad on CycleTrader. Sure enough, I got this, written exactly like this...

hello i'm Eric i will like to know if your posted Bike on cycle trader is still for sale if yes kindly get back to me in my emails

(his email address) with the present condition and the last price....TY

OK, all these scam letters have these things in common

1.) Broken english
2.) Responds by texting rather than calling. (all the serious people have called my ph. #)
3.) Asking STUPID or obvious questions
4.) Paypal payment requests

I'm contacting CycleTrader about this

tris · « **Reply #13 on:** May 16, 2016, 11:46:00 PM »

Quote from: leafman60 on May 12, 2016, 09:13:55 PM

Whatever happened to the Nigerians who needed to deposit $54 million in somebody's account for a month and pay them 10 percent for the trouble?

My personal scam was the Nigerian astronaut stuck in orbit around the earth and would I help get him down for a cut of his 14 years of back pay

I did have some fun pulling the chain of a scammer with a buckshee email address and false name a while ago

Shorty · « **Reply #14 on:** May 17, 2016, 12:18:20 AM »

Quote from: willowstreetguzziguy on May 16, 2016, 09:32:36 PM

ANOTHER UPDATE FROM THE ORIGINAL POST...

Last night I edited my cycle ad on CycleTrader. Sure enough, I got this, written exactly like this...

hello i'm Eric i will like to know if your posted Bike on cycle trader is still for sale if yes kindly get back to me in my emails

(his email address) with the present condition and the last price....TY

OK, all these scam letters have these things in common

1.) Broken english
2.) Responds by texting rather than calling. (all the serious people have called my ph. #)
3.) Asking STUPID or obvious questions
4.) Paypal payment requests

I'm contacting CycleTrader about this

But, they might be Okies.....

oldbike54 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 17, 2016, 07:56:57 AM »

Quote from: Shorty on May 17, 2016, 12:18:20 AM

But, they might be Okies.....

Or Yankee transplants

Dusty

Shorty · « **Reply #16 on:** May 17, 2016, 08:21:37 AM »

Quote from: oldbike54 on May 17, 2016, 07:56:57 AM

Or Yankee transplants

Dusty

Fookin Aye

oldbike54 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 17, 2016, 08:26:22 AM »

Quote from: Shorty on May 17, 2016, 08:21:37 AM

Fookin Aye

More likely a native of Sapulpa

Dusty

segesta · « **Reply #18 on:** May 17, 2016, 09:55:14 AM »

Aside: The "Freakonomics" guys had an interesting column on why scammers continue to use the same techniques when 'everyone knows about the Nigerian scam'. It's for the reason someone mentioned above: by using the same Nigerian scam/story/etc, only the remaining gullible people--a tiny number, but they exist--will respond. It's economically efficient for the scammers.

slowmover · « **Reply #19 on:** May 17, 2016, 11:49:30 AM »

We should all just trust in the goodness of our fellow man to do the right thing.

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #20 on:** May 17, 2016, 12:36:26 PM »

The right thing being to find out who they are and lynch them?

At least that prevents recidivism.

slopokes · « **Reply #21 on:** May 17, 2016, 05:03:52 PM »

I have ten(10) $1,000 money orders that I would gladly trade for a sp2--- and I don't need the change

ibis1 · « **Reply #22 on:** May 17, 2016, 05:09:04 PM »

Quote from: Sasquatch Jim on May 17, 2016, 12:36:26 PM

The right thing being to find out who they are and lynch them?

At least that prevents recidivism.

cloudbase · « **Reply #23 on:** May 17, 2016, 05:13:38 PM »

Quote from: oldbike54 on May 17, 2016, 07:56:57 AM

Or Yankee transplants

Dusty

Just watch "The Lawton Story." They probably had to dub it into English before release.

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