Any one can help me about pay on eBay?

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 "ebay escrow agent" 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 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.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

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 "military fake car shipping scam", "western union escrow shipping fraud" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.

This is a scam.

Don't send any money.

If the car is where you live, tell him you want to see it and have it inspected before you send him anything. I am guessing that you were attracted to the offer because it is some ridiculous deal.

It is very common for scammers to advertise that the car is in the town where you live, but when you call them, the car is magically somewhere else and so are they.

This guy is probably in Nigeria and the car doesn't exist.

Never purchase a used car without test-driving it, having it inspected, verifying that the VIN on the title matches the VIN on the car and verifying that the person selling you the car matches the name of the owner on the title.

EDIT - Why do you insist on being dense? This is a scam. The first page on craigslist states that all offers to ship vehicles are fraudulent.

Other red flags include-

1) Ebay is NOT an escrow service and does not hold money.

2) They are asking for payment before the vehicle 'arrives'.

3) The fact that you thought the car was in your hometown and now it's not.

4) The person is in the 'army'.

Send your money if you insist on being an idiot, but don't post a question on this site next week that says "I think I was scammed - how do I get my money back?" because I will post a big I TOLD YOU SO - YOU DON'T GET YOUR MONEY BACK! IF YOU DID, IT WOULDN'T BE A SCAM!

Simple answer is this is a SCAM. There is no car. If you send money it will disappear along with the "seller". Nobody sells a car ultra cheap and ships it free. The warnings are everywhere. Ebay has nothing to do with sales on other sites. Just for clarity...one person rambles on about ebay doesn't send invoices. Yes, they do. When you buy an item the seller sends an invoice through eBay. The statement about no protection for cars sold over 200 miles away. is B.S.If you buy a misrepresented car through eBay it makes no difference how any miles it was away from you. Buying a car through the eBay site is fine as long as the seller is reputable. I wish the uneducated would stop posting misinformation. They also say not to contact them because the message is "infected" then that later say to contact them with a fabricated story. The best thing to do is not reply and delete their messages.

This is a SCAM - DO NOT go through with this for any reason. DO NOT click on that file - it's infected

1 - Ebay NEVER works with Craigslist. They are direct competitors

2 - Ebay NEVER sends an invoice

3 - the ONLY way to pay through Ebay is if the car is listed for auction ON EBAY, you win the auction then you pay through Ebay's site through your linked Paypal account.

If you did not find the car listed for auction on Ebay,it's a SCAM. If you did not bid through Ebay and win the auction it's a SCAM. If you did not pay on Ebay's site through your Paypal account, it's a SCAM

Also you have NO protection on vehicles unless they are located within 200 miles of your home address and you pick up the car in person. If the car is shipped, you have no protection. If the car is more than 200 miles from you, it's a SCAM

This scam is all over Craigslist. There is NO car - there is a scammer who stole pictures of a car off some other site and is trying to con you into sending money by falsely using Ebay's name and they will disappear with your money. There is NO soldier in Afghanistan, there is a Nigerian scammer

Do not respond to this person for any reason - report this to the FBIs IC3 division http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

EDIT - there is NO Military Logistic Department and the US Military NEVER ships civilian vehicles for any reason SCAM SCAM SCAM. This scam has already been exposed on scambusting sites

Read this - sound familiar http://netscammers.blogspot.com/2010/09/ltc-david-...

http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6...

http://scammerdatabase.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/sc...

http://www.scamvictimsunited.com/phpBB2/viewtopic....

and hundreds more. It's a Nigerian scam

Need more proof - write back to say that you can't believe it's such a coincidence but your uncle is Base Commander at Camp Perry so he'll just go to the Motor Pool, pick up the car, and deposit the money into his military bank account -- and you'll get the car from your uncle when he comes to visit your mom at Easter.

This is a complete SCAM. They are trying to steal your money.

Do some research before sending anyone a dime. Go back to Craigslist and READ THE WARNINGS about shipping cars. 100% of these adds are fraudulent. Go to eBay, they DO NOT offer any such service for used car buying.

This is a very common Craigslist SCAM. There is no car, if you send them money you'll never see the car, never hear from the seller again and you can kiss you cash goodbye.

The ONLY way to protect yourself from scammers is to shop locally and don't do business with anyone who isn't standing in the room next to you.

So when you found that sweetheart of a deal - the car you want at WAY less than its worth, tht didnt send up a red flag?

The fact that the seller is out of the country didnt either?

How about that he is paying for shipping? No clue there?

OK, surely you got suspicious when he said you have a grace period to inspect the car and cancel with a full refund if you were not happy.

No? What about when he said that if you didnt like it he would pay for return shipping? Still no sirens going off?

What about when you looked on eBay to find out where they handle private party sales and money transfers? What did you think then?

Go scammer!

usually with cars and ebay you put a little money down to hold the car till you can see it to know that it is what the ad says it is. payment in full once you pick up the car.

I would hesitate with what you have said so far - if the guy is in afghanistan who is here to give it to you? sounds very shady.... I would ask for a picture of the car with some kind of guaranteed proof that the picture is current. i.e. current newspaper in front of the car. Still, i would even be leary sending a down payment until i see the car in person.

rememeber a fool and his money soon parts their ways! dont be a fool!

It's a scam. Did you read the warnings on Craigslist? It has examples of this exact situation. Read them.