Question, second hand buying.

No1newts

No1newts

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Trying to buy a car second hand for the missus.

The car we have is a much better price etc than the rest we have seen second hand, strangely so. Now looking into it the person selling says they are living abroad and that the car is with them, they want to sell it as its wrong side of the road driving, fair enough.

If we want the person says they will ship it over, we can look at it, if we want it buy it, if not he will take it back. All sems good. But, the seller wants us to put a load of money (the price of car) into Google Wallet to hold if he ships the car over, if we don't want it fine, if we do Google wallet releases the money.

The last part just seems a little shifty to me.

I have emailed the guy and I'm awaiting a response but I can't see any reason why we need to put money in somewhere pending release. He could send the car over, if we like it we buy if we don't he takes it back there is no reason for the money to be held anyway.

Am I being overly cautious or does this sound a little dodgy to anyone else? I might have missed some details so ask away and I'll try and clarify if I have missed anything.

Thanks in advance.
 
Sounds about as legit as todays african request


My Father (Hon. Kipkalya Kones) was the former Kenyan road Minister. He and the assistant minister of home affairs (Mr.Lorna Laboso) were on board when the plane crashed on the Tuesday 10th, June, 2008 which was headed to kericho and crashed in a remote area called kajong'a, in Western Kenya and the plan number was ( Cessna 210 ). My late Father was an investor, he Invested his fund to Kenya stock exchange market, Gold storing investment, he was a preference shareholder in Shell Petroleum Company and deals in Real Estate building investment.

My late Father deposited the sum of $5.800.000.00USD (Five Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) in my name here in Burkina Faso. And deposited Gold quality of 22+ Carat, Purity of 96.7% and Quantity 130kg in my name under the custody of security company here in Burkina Faso.

You are entitle of financial benefit of 30% of the total fund and 5% will be set aside for any expenses incured during the time of completing the transaction, while the rest of the fund shall be my investment capital in your country. i have no knowledge of international transaction of this nature but I took this decision personally because it occured to me that transfer of this type must involve expenses,on the other hand, in the absent of expenses, the 5% set aside will be return
to me.
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I earn about $10M a day just by having my email on a public website
 
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