I looked it up and it says its a toll free number. the guy never left his name but said was interested in the SKYON??? I figure if you were interested in the car you would know the proper name of it. Think its a scam or what? I didnt call back cause I dont feel like it but anyone else ever have somethin like this

 

Be wary. With times being hard nowadays, there are a lot of bad people trying to scam innocent people. Just wait for him to call back. He will, if he's really interested. Just get a feel if he's legit or not.

Remember, don't give anyone the title w/o getting FULL payment. GL w/ the sale man.

 

My dad still says Skyon no matter how many times I tell him. Some people are just weird.

 

I got those all the time when I had my last car on craigslist.. and numbers from all over the place... Total scam! Also had a guy email from "africa" and told me to ship him the car and once he had my confirmation info from the shipping company he would wire me the money including shipping... RIGHT!!! He had a link to his myspace on the email and it said he lived in Alabama not Africa! be careful!

 

yea, its sketchy thats it's a toll free number but my grandfather still calls my TC a "Skyon" lol, so i wouldn't do a deal until u meet this guy.

 

just make sure he doesn't want you to ship the car to Nigeria.....

 

It is a scam! I had the same deal going on from a "Pastor" in Canada. So I Googled the ardress listed and the first three pages returned were fraudwatcher.org. A lot of these guys will send you a moneyorder for more than the selling price say $40,000 when the car is listed for $30,000 and have you deposit the money in your bank. Then you take the extrfa money, and itle and give it to the guy who comes to pick up the car (ussually a third party). Here's the turnaround, the bank will honor the moneyorder up front. Then it will take something like a week for the moneyorder to clear. As soon as the time is passed, the moneyorder is denied because it is fake, and the bank not only takes whatever you have in your account to make up for the loss, but you now have a new debt for the difference. These guys also do this with the secret shopper scam. Good thing the military gives me a heads upat Commander's call.

 

Or it could be a third party wanting to sell your car for you. I had my Mazda6 for sale not too long ago, and plenty of companies called me up wanting to advertise my car for me. Even a company working with Pep Boys called me up.... weird.

"One stop motors" is the most insistent one, called me night and day, saying they want to up my sell price and can offer financing and warranty to better sell the car, as well as advertise it on several ad websites...

all for a meager sum of $500....

Total scams, man.

Be weary of buyers wanting to buy the car sight unseen, and always make sure their checks clears YOUR BANK before signing over the title.

Be careful and good luck to you selling the car.

 

thanks everyone, ill watch out for these people cause i aint never sold a car on craigslist and ebay before so ill make sure

 

Google the number. There are websites that post scam attempt phone numbers, that might tell you for certain. Or it might be a dealership looking to solicit business by trading your car in (I've received those calls before).

 

Look up "advance fee fraud" on the tubes. Also "419" and "nigerian" scams.

A lot of these scams rely on a little law that (I think) only applies to US Banks. US Banks HAVE to make funds available to you if you bring them in a check and try to deposit it to your account (or to cash). However, the banking system doesn't process the transfer of funds from the issuing bank to the recieving bank until 2-4 weeks later. If the issuing bank has no record of the checking account or if the issuing bank is entirely fraudulant, the recieving bank DOES NOT know when you deposit the check. At that point the recieving bank either takes the money back out of your account OR they come after you if you took out the funds in cash.

So it SEEMS like the bad check is good to you for about 2-4 weeks. You proceed with the scam, and send additional monies off somewhere else. You are then on the hook for the money you sent out.