Question by darcybx: I need help with item I am selling?
Okay so here the problem, I am selling my xbox 360 to a person that lives in Malaysia. Now the person that buying it said he send the money to my paypal but I said I don’t have paypal so I said can you do bank transfer. He said yes so this involves me giving my account and sort code number of my bank. I have asked him loads of questions and he said he send money before I post it so it’s in my bank before I ship item over there. Do you think this is a scam? can he take my money using my bank and sort code number?
Best answer:
Answer by BOW DOWN! I AM YOUR GOD NOW!
I’m sure it is perfectly safe.
Of course, he may know some way to steal your money and/or identity that I am unaware of.
Add your own answer in the comments!
Why would anyone in Malaysia buy a used Xbox from someone in another country when new Xbox’s are already cheaper in Asia? And it’s going to cost you at least 100 to send it with tracking details and insurance. Plus they have a different voltage in Malaysia
NEVER give your bank account number or sort code to anyone you have never met unless you want your account cleaned out. Same with Paypal – they will send you a phishing email saying that money has been sent but you need to click on the link to verify the transaction, then you log in and you just gave your details to a scammer
DO NOT ship internationally for any reason if you don’t know this person
No he can’t he needs to know more than that. Sort code is the banks code that anyone can find out and bank code number tells to who the money goes too
perfectly safe
You are about to get scammed….
First off why would somebody buy a used appliance from England when the same can be bought in their country cheaper? (not to mention that your Xbox won’t work or even be able to plug into an electrical outlet in Malaysia).
By the time this person does a wire transfer and pays for the wire, the exchange rate, etc. etc. and then has to hope that you decide to spend the extra in shipping fees and actually send the item… it simply does not make any sense.
They are not after the X-box but after your identity and bank account number.
100% scam.
There is no buyer.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your xbox360.
The next email will be from another of the scammer’s fake names and free email addresses and will demand you immediately send your xbox360 before the transfer is complete. “Funds available” is NOT the same as “money transferred”. An international bank transfer can take WEEKS to clear completely.
Your xbox360 won’t work with that country’s electricity and will cost someone more than it is worth to ship in overseas.
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.
I would never send item outside the UK.
He cannot take your money from just your sort code and account number as these are printed on cheques.