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  • i dont know how google checkout works. i am afraid to go thru with the process. i dont have a google checkout account? n would it be badif i give her my name n address? o is she askn me to sign up and then give her one? im just really confused here. this was our conversation: SELLER Hi there, I'm writing you regarding my 2002 Honda Accord EX (2.3L with automatic transmission). The car has never been in any kind on accidents, All scheduled services has been done by Honda dealership with paperwork in hand. It has a Clear Title. The car has 50,200 miles on it. It is loaded with options such as PIONEER AVIC Z2 NAVIAGATION SYSTEM WITH IPOD AND BLUETOOTH. Automatic and power everything, Premium Sound System, Leather Seats, Cruise Control and much more. The price is not negotiable, if you are interested in buying it, the price is $1900. I sell the car at this price because I can't enjoy it due to my job(I work as a casino dealer on a cruise ship), I'm a single woman and I have nobody close who can use it. The car was used by my son, as he loved it very much, but he did not enjoy it as he died last year. It brings very bad memories to me, I want to get rid of it. I just registered under my name. All documents, including owner's manual, Clear Title and a bill of sale on your name will be provided along with the car. Also about payment and shipping I will use only Google Checkout program so we can both be protected. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you, Isabella Torres ------------------ ME: Sorry to have bothered u, but my boyfriend is in need of a car ASAP, but he wanted to test the car before buying. I was wondering what city ur car is held at so we can test-drive it. Again, sorry for the trouble. SELLER: Hi again, I have to tell you that the car is already at the shipping company in Portland, OR. As I said in my first email, I work as a dealer on a cruise ship and for this reason I chose to sell my car over the internet. I want you to know that the transaction fits the Google Checkout Protection plan. Google Checkout reimburses buyers who are involved in a vehicle transaction through their program. The program provides reimbursement for all the situations that can appear in a transaction. The money will be sent to a Google trust account managed by a Google representative. After the payment is confirmed and secured by Google Checkout I will start the shipping. The car will be in front at your door in max 3-5 days. From the moment you receive it you have a 7 days inspection period. After the 7 days you have to decide if you want to keep the car or not. If you'll keep it the payment will be released to me. In case you will not like the car and decide not to keep it I will ship the car back on my cost and you will be fully refunded. If you agree I will need your full name and complete shipping address in order to register the transaction. Sorry for the long email. I have tried to touch all bases. P.S. Here you can find more pictures with the car: http://imgur.com/a/z3lE2 (if the above link does not work copy and paste it into a new web browser window). Thank you! Isabella Torres ---------- ME: We finally found a car that we are able to afford, and a car that is to my boyfriend's liking, esp for an 02. it sounds too good to be true. we would love to go ahead with the process, but we both dont trust something ------- SELLER: With your full name and address I will register our deal at Google Checkout and you will receive a confirmation of my seller status from them to see that I'm not playing around here and all necessary information about this transaction(terms,buyer protection,payment instructions,invoice,etc.) All need now is your full name and address so I can put the things in move... Waiting for your reply.that is paid through online without physically seeing it.. correction for my last reply: ME: We finally found a car that we are able to afford, and a car that is to my boyfriend's liking, esp for an 02. it sounds too good to be true. we would love to go ahead with the process, but we both dont trust something THAT IS PAID THROUGH ONLINE WITHOUT PHYSICALLY SEEING IT.

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    100% scam. There is no car. There are stolen pictures of someone else's car. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "google checkout" and will demand you pay for "shipping costs", in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of cheap vehicles, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. If you google "fake car shipping scam", "western union shipping fraud" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.

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SCAM!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

JetDoc

100% SCAM That is NOT at all how Google Checkout works. Google Checkout is a payment system like Paypal that is used by registered Google Merchants who have an online store and a Google Checkout button on their payment page Google Checkout is not for person to person transactions. This page explains what Google Checkout is and how it workshttp://www.google.com/wallet/how-it-works.html#online Here is a list of online retailers who accept Google Checkout http://www.google.com/wallet/where-it-works.html#online If this is not a car dealer who has a website where you found the car listed, and you saw the Google Checkout button on the payment page of their website, then Google Checkout would never be involved This is a scammer using Google's name to try and con you into believing this transaction is real. Other times they will use Ebay or Yahoo's names in this same scam There is NO car -- there is a picture of a car stolen off someone else's ad in another city and a scammer trying to con you into sending money Report this ASAP to the site where the car was listed before someone actually falls for it and DO NOT provide any information If you found this on Craiglist, why are you ignoring the big bold warning on the top of every vehicles page that tells you "AVOID OFFERS TO SHIP VEHICLES" As well as the very clear Craigslist warnings that tell you to ONLY deal with people you can meet face to face, AVOID all transactions involving shipping and DO NOT purchase expensive items sight uneen http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams NEVER buy a car that you cannot see in person, test drive, have a mechanic check out and verify the seller's ID is the same name as on the car title unless you are buying from a dealer you know is 100% legitimate or you will get scammed every time, end up buying a lemon, or buy a stolen vehicle from thieves who list them for cheap online for a quick sale before the police catch them

Kittysue

You know it's a scam. Stop all communication with the "seller". Each reply is a copy/paste of the same 'ol BS story that's been used a thousand times. These scammers are overseas (notice the poor grammar?), and once you wire funds, they are GONE... no retrieval. Google NEVER gets involved as an escrow service on private transactions. Ever. It's nice and official-sounding, but it doesn't exist in this regard. Skip this and move on.

ElGrande

100% SCAM That is NOT at all how Google Checkout works. Google Checkout is a payment system like Paypal that is used by registered Google Merchants who have an online store and a Google Checkout button on their payment page Google Checkout is not for person to person transactions. This page explains what Google Checkout is and how it workshttp://www.google.com/wallet/how-it-works.html#online Here is a list of online retailers who accept Google Checkout http://www.google.com/wallet/where-it-works.html#online If this is not a car dealer who has a website where you found the car listed, and you saw the Google Checkout button on the payment page of their website, then Google Checkout would never be involved This is a scammer using Google's name to try and con you into believing this transaction is real. Other times they will use Ebay or Yahoo's names in this same scam There is NO car -- there is a picture of a car stolen off someone else's ad in another city and a scammer trying to con you into sending money Report this ASAP to the site where the car was listed before someone actually falls for it and DO NOT provide any information If you found this on Craiglist, why are you ignoring the big bold warning on the top of every vehicles page that tells you "AVOID OFFERS TO SHIP VEHICLES" As well as the very clear Craigslist warnings that tell you to ONLY deal with people you can meet face to face, AVOID all transactions involving shipping and DO NOT purchase expensive items sight uneen http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams NEVER buy a car that you cannot see in person, test drive, have a mechanic check out and verify the seller's ID is the same name as on the car title unless you are buying from a dealer you know is 100% legitimate or you will get scammed every time, end up buying a lemon, or buy a stolen vehicle from thieves who list them for cheap online for a quick sale before the police catch them

Kittysue

You know it's a scam. Stop all communication with the "seller". Each reply is a copy/paste of the same 'ol BS story that's been used a thousand times. These scammers are overseas (notice the poor grammar?), and once you wire funds, they are GONE... no retrieval. Google NEVER gets involved as an escrow service on private transactions. Ever. It's nice and official-sounding, but it doesn't exist in this regard. Skip this and move on.

ElGrande

SCAM!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

JetDoc

Stop wasting your time asking about Google here and, instead, ASK GOOGLE how their Checkout system works.

Butch S

Stop wasting your time asking about Google here and, instead, ASK GOOGLE how their Checkout system works.

Butch S

100% scam. There is no car. There are stolen pictures of someone else's car. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "google checkout" and will demand you pay for "shipping costs", in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of cheap vehicles, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. If you google "fake car shipping scam", "western union shipping fraud" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.

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