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  1. Sweats

    Sweats Sure Forum Moderator

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    Have been looking at getting a new motor. Quite fancy a BMW. Found one that was too good to be true. 3 series 320d M sport.

    £2370 on a 58 plate.

    I emailed them asking if it was a typo. and have had the response i was expecting that they are a retired couple with no mobile reception living in Thurso. I am expecting them to want a holding deposit and will then run off with my money after offering to meet me somewhere half way.

    So I have told them I work in Aberdeen and could pop over. Anyone fancy going to have a look at this car for me?
     
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  2. Sweats

    Sweats Sure Forum Moderator

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    This is there email



    Hello,

    I still got the BMW 320D M Sport Saloon 2007 57 6 Speed for sale at the price of £2370. The car is in excellent condition, garage kept and accident free. The mileage is real and I never had any problems with the engine. The car looks and works just perfect. I bought it from UK and it is still registered here. We live in the Northern part of United Kingdom, in a beautiful sea-side city called Thurso.
    We are a nice couple of pensioners (I have 64 and my beloved wife is 63 years old) and don't use the car so often. We love to spend our time on the road but now we use to travel by plane, so a car is no more useful for us. Also we sold our house and bought a big farm here in Thurso. If you are really interested we are ready to make a trip to England and meet you personally. You can take the car for a test-drive and any kind of inspection.
    Please tell us where do you live? I am sure that we will find a nice city in England to arrange a meeting, a region acceptable for us and for you in the same time. We have the faith that this can be a good deal!

    P.S. I appreciate if we can continue our conversation by e-mail. The mobile signal is poor here, we have to walk over 2 miles for a good phone call.

    Thank you and let me know,


    Mark

    To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>

    This is the email address. Feel free to bombard them with weird stuff and post copies of what you send them on here.
     
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  3. Bib Fortuna's Maw

    Bib Fortuna's Maw Well-Known Member

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    Aberdeen to Thurso is, at the very least, a 3 hour round trip on one of the most dangerous roads in Europe.

    The time to get there from Glasgow is better measured in aeons.

    **** that <ok>
     
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  4. VenomPD

    VenomPD Merrick jr

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    <laugh>

    And the rest, it takes me about 3 hours to get to Invergordon from Aberdeen and that's without the Kessock bridge being down to one lane.

    You're talking 5 or 6 hours if the traffic is good.
     
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  5. Sweats

    Sweats Sure Forum Moderator

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    Just looked on a map. Should have said I was working in Inverness as that seems closer
     
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  6. Null

    Null Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    ROTSB to be kidnapped n Fritzled by two sex crazed pensioners!
     
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  7. VenomPD

    VenomPD Merrick jr

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    I'll let my grandparents know he's on his way...
     
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  8. Bib Fortuna's Maw

    Bib Fortuna's Maw Well-Known Member

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    Anyone who lives in Caithness probably knows fine well that nobody from outside Caithness is coming there to pick up ****.

    It's a con, man, it's gotta be.

    If you said you lived in Wick, the guy's account would've mysteriously disappeared overnight.

    Give the **** nothing <ok>
     
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  9. Null

    Null Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    A visit to Grandmas wouldn't be complete without a go on the gimp...

     
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  10. Sweats

    Sweats Sure Forum Moderator

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    I'm not going to hand over any cash. The car is worth about 7k it is a blatant con. Though if they reply to my last email, I'm going to say I have paid the AA to do a vehicle check for me in Thurso.
     
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  11. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    The grammar in the email is suspect too.

    Them ****in Nigerians have started selling us motors now <laugh>
     
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  12. Sweats

    Sweats Sure Forum Moderator

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    I reckon thet're eastern european. The "we have faith" bitmakes me think it..
     
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  13. ManDingo 20"/20"

    ManDingo 20"/20" MDMA Guru

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    Might be chinks.

    The chinks run cannabis farms in most of the wee towns/villages in scotland.
     
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  14. Sweats

    Sweats Sure Forum Moderator

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    They have called my bluff and said they would meet me in Aberdeen.
     
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  15. VenomPD

    VenomPD Merrick jr

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    ER and me will go meet them for you...
     
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    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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  17. RAVENBLACK

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    Let's get down to the nitty, gritty.

    Forget Venom his burnt coupon will scare them off, I'll do it for £1K cash in used notes.

    Say no more..................nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

    You come up with the readies I'll come up with the goods.
     
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  18. Bib Fortuna's Maw

    Bib Fortuna's Maw Well-Known Member

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    Whereabouts in Aberdeen?

    If it's the Wallace Tower in Tillydrone or Seaton Park or "next to the big Middlefield slides", you're a dead man.
     
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  19. VenomPD

    VenomPD Merrick jr

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    Up yie, I'm going to show up with a wad of fivers like Jim Bowen on an auld epidsode of Bullseye. They'll no be able to resist.
     
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  20. Mick O'Toon

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