Seems like some sort of Phishing Scam

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I received the following email. I asked for her to text me and I'd verify it, but then she just sent an SMS from yahoo.

Scam?

[FONT=&quot] " This is Tracy..am hearing impaired.....my uncle had an accident on his way to visit our family in GA.with his cadilac escalade 2006. .but the repair has been done so....I want the car tow back to the state here in your shop ..so you can do the auto detailing service for him, can you handle that for me.i will like you to know that i want full detail interior and exterior.and the vehicle is with the tow guy in[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]VA and they will have it tow to your workshop for an estimation by next week Wednesday between 11:00am and do you accept credit card ...There`s no insurance involved so can i have your name and full workshop address where the car will be tow to for the Cleaning."[/FONT]
 
well its certainly possible it is a scam. how many target detailers? hmmmmm...

generally speaking if someone is hearing impaired they can make a phone call using a service from the phone company. what I would do is get this conversation on phone call and then you can further assess scamability :)

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I'd be very careful with this one. It's being towed from VA to your shop in Montana? Why is it being towed if it's been repaired? Seems like there was something like this going around a few years ago.
 
I read about this offer on the AG forum or perhaps Autopia. The forum member checked into it further and found that it was indeed a scam.

Walk away!
 
I'm not sure what they have to gain, maybe expecting to call me and ask for a CC number so they can "drop off" or something?

If they show up to steal something, they might get a surprise. ;->

I asked her to text me, and she did, but not from a phone. So, I replied back and said I wanted a real number, and I also wanted her address to verify. No more communication. I'm on craigslist all of the time, and see and flag the fake ads all day long.

It's just strange, trying to figure out what the end game might be, and how they profit. If they wanted to rob me, not that hard to find me. Of course, they better be fast, my driveway is 300' long to the road....:dblthumb2:
 
I wish someone would come to my shop with this sh*t, I have a smith & Wesson .357 magnum waiting for them in my desk.
 
There are a couple of things they can get. A lot of states and countries for that matter can use your address and name of business or home as a digital signature. Just like the tele communication scam a couple of years ago, where they would ask for you to say and spell your name. They would hang up and people just verbally signed....in most cases a credit card or in some horrible cases permission to withdraw money from a bank account. Just my two cents.
 
I'm just wondering what part of that story is believable. Give her the address for the police station in your town.
 
I read something like this as being a scam and them already having the (stolen) CC and wanting a FULL detail....

Perk is they will pay top dollar and want you to detail the car full blown then ask for cash back without ever being seen in person!
 
Yeah its a scam, Ive gotten the same excuse & sketchy contact about 3 times now.

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Scam for sure IMO - I received about 5 phone calls in a month like this last year. First one I felt bad that I asked them to email me instead of having an interpreter read off the words they were IMing. Every time after that I got very irritated and just hung up - the calls then stopped. Has to be a scam if you have damn near the same story id imagine.
 
On Renny Doyle's site all the info is on this very topic. Knew I read it before somewhere.
 
If it's anything like the craigslist or ebay scams, they will tell you that they will send you a check for $4000 dollars (your bill is only $300 for the work you are going to do) and will ask you to pay the tow guy $200. For your troubles you can keep another $200. So that's $700 and please give the rest of the cash to the tow guy and he will deliver the cash to the purchaser. A money order takes a while to clear and most people think that money orders are the same as cash. Guess what? They are not. So you deposit the money order and give the tow guy $3500 cash (after all you have a money order for the $3500 plus the $500 for your services). 10 days later the money order does not clear and you are out $3500. That's how this scam works.
 
Omg!!!! it's a scam. They tried this one us as well same thing. They were trying to get our home address. The only reason why we found out it was a scam it was because the person told us that they heard of us from someone else example: I heard about your company from Lisa, so I texted this person, Oh how are her kids doing? She replied, they are good. I had just made that up. Trust me, this was after 1 hour. I was trying to be nice but it got to the point that I knew already that something was wrong. We tried hard to comply with her. See this person was smart from the get go, used something delicate so that we could be nice to him or her you know. Be very careful with this scams guys. Don't give your address at all.

Also sometimes they will use the samething but ask your physical address to deliver the car to you so that you could detail to them, saying that they are rich and all that.
 
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