so he posted hes bike on a local site for $5k or something... couple days later someone called him and asked him if he would be willing to ship the bike to Malaysia and they would pay him through western union... and i guess he said Yes, and someone called him from surrounded area to come check out the bike before it gets shipped to them. that was last week
and tonight he called my dad and told him that $15.8k out of hes bank is gone.
not sure how they did it... but hes a fuking idiot for doing this.... he called police but i dont think they'll be able to do anything about it
Oldest scam in the book. Probably a fake cashiers check, it looks deposited at first but once the banks clear shit out and realize it is fake, they pull the funds.
I'm guessing he is older and isn't aware of many of the common Internet scams. I'm sure the bank can help him out, he didnt authorize a withdrawal of 15.8k dollars, and it's not like he handed them the cash.
There is a pinned message at the buy and sell that says, PM me before u buy/sell international... This things always happen when u put too much trust on people u have never met. These days we have to be extra cautious.
There has to be more to this story. Just giving a bank account number out doesn't do squat. Not to mention what does that have to do with Western Union?
Hmmmm.... did he give any bank account details to any person invloved with the transaction? Banks would require some authorisation for money to be debited from the account.
Could he have been hacked and his bank info stolen?
Anything could have played here even that the theft of the money was totally unrelated to the bike sale.
So many scams these days it's unreal. I posted up a car on the cars.com and eBay and all I get is scammer trying to pay with PayPal or some western union. All my replies are casheir bank check or cash in hand nothing else.
You can always call the bank to verify a cashiers check.
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