I gotta say, I'm a bit sick of the text messages with "email me" at a gmail account then emails saying they will deposit money into a paypal account. Must be the latest scam & the english in the emails is terrible.
I've advertised a few cars over the past couple of years and had the same experience.
They won't ring you, and more often than not they ask questions that are already answered in the ad.
Being a suspicious old git, I wouldn't answer them, but did a bit of digging.
They will "pay" you for the car, and add in a bit extra as this is for shipping or fees for the pickup agent or something like that.
They then tell you to pay the extra amount they paid you to someone else, usually via Western Union (funny how that gets mentioned, but they want you to use paypal first) which is unrecoverable basically.
Then the original payment they made to you via paypal gets rejected and then you're out the money you've just paid to some con artist via WU.
They don't want the car, just cash.Hope this helps someone.
