Another great offer

[Nautibusiness]

Had a cracker of a deal the other day.

Clark Morgan of Ultimate Machinery Consultants (ultimatemachineryconsultants@gmail.com).

Clark Morgan.
Office 222, Sheika Sana bin al maktoum bldg,
Shiekh Zayed Road, Dubai UAE.
Tel: +971501565423

Clark contacted me as his client, Sheikh Al-Mailem Abubakar Abduli, was very interested in buying a 2004 Maxum 2100SC we had on brokerage!
"Happy days" I thought, "another quick, easy sale."

Oddly Clark didn't have a web address or any references for me, but he assured me that it was he who was taking the greater risk.
I found it a little unusual that the Sheikh was looking for a 7 year old Maxum cuddy boat rather than a new superyacht, but on pushing, the formal offer came in at just £500 off the asking price so it couldn't be so bad...
Through curiosity I googled the Sheikh and found nothing about him, however another Sheikh with almost exactly the same name (just a few letters different at the end) did own an oil company in Kuwait... I felt assured and guessed this was the Sheikh's brother or cousin.

So I sent details of our client account and waited.

A few days later I had a very apologetic email from Clark. Somehow their silly administrator had sent out a cheque for £68,431 instead of £17,500. A silly error, she had made the cheque out for the entire purchase order that Sheikh Al-Mailem Abubakar Abduli (bless him) had made with the company and could I let Clark know when the cheque showed.

By great fortune the cheque was sent directly to our bank and it arrived later that very day. Sadly the bank phoned, just before I was about to pay Clark all the extra money back, to say that there seemed to be a problem with the cheque as it wasn't actually real at all.

I am sure that there seems to be some other sort of error as obviously someone who runs such an important sounding company and is dealing with a Sheikh wouldn't be up to no good so I have email Clark to ask him for his full contact details so I can help him as best as possible...
...I haven't heard back yet.

Vendors beware.

Tom

 

[ari]

Frightening that, presumably, people must be falling for these scams. I say presumably because if they weren't then the scam would die out if there were no return from it.

 

[Sulley]

This scam has been running with people selling their motorbikes for quite sometime, unfortunately some people fall for it.

As you say there are still people willing to do this which is why this scam is still sadly running.

 

[Ripster]

We had the same scam tried to be pulled on us. Starts off sounding feasible with requests for quotes on regular products to go out to regular destinations. Then the overpayment email arrives and you immediately smell a rat. As has been said - be on your guard!

 

[Balearick]

Had a cracker of a deal the other day.

Clark Morgan of Ultimate Machinery Consultants (ultimatemachineryconsultants@gmail.com).

Ultimate Machinery Consultants can't afford their own domain and use a freebee Gmail address? Uh-uh...

A few days later I had a very apologetic email from Clark. Somehow their silly administrator had sent out a cheque for £68,431 instead of £17,500.

Standard Counterfeit Check Scam, anyone selling anything online is a target for them:
http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/fraudtypes/counterfeitcheck.aspx

 

[volvopaul]

I have many emails asking to buy used engines, sterngear props etc, in fact any scam that I can offer them, they ask for bank details to pay money in etc......

Yes we have heard it all before, fonejacker programme springs to mind, the south African voice makes me laugh so much!

 

[robertt]

Anyone who in any way humours any part of such a communication must be off their head! In fact there is an ironic form of justice here in that if you're daft enough to fall for that cr*p you almost deserve to be done!
Not that I in any way agree with such fraud or lack sympathy for the victims!