1998 GSX scam

[xxslayerxx5000]

I recentley almost went through with buying a "mint condition" 2nd gen 98 Eclipse GSX off craigslist.com for $2800(from the email adress: stevengsx@yahoo.com). I did not go through with it for a few reasons:
-I lost my drivers licence and moneygram wouldnt let me send the amount with only my temperary DMV's licence.
-I showed a few friends some of the emails to, and they said it was a scam.
This is this story that summerises what the man said.
He said that he was deployed to Wisconsin for air force training, and he brought the vehicle with him from california. He also said that he had to get rid of the car asap cause they were going to send him to Iraq. I asked if I could speak to him on the phone and gave him my cell phone number. "I'm in a military base and we have strict rules here, I cannot call you when you want." He insisted in using a certain online escrow service wich I could not find on yahoo or google http://www.onlinetitletransfer.com/. I quickly registered with the website thinking I found a crazy deal on this car with only 49,000 miles on it. He said that the previous buyer paid for shipping using DAS before he got the bank loan(wich did not go through) and they didnt want to refund his money. So the shipping was "paid for", and all we needed to do was sort out was a legitemet way of transfering title and payment. He also told me to tell the moneygram worker that I was sending money to a relitive to avoid tax fees when I was sending the moneygram. He sent me a photo ID of his Airforce ID and the vin number of the car, to prove it was him. He stated that he had another buyer waiting to send a moneygram if I could not.
After I told him that I lost my ID, he told me to have my girlfriend do it but she is only 17 I just turned 20. He said next that I was waisting his time and he was now going to sell the car to the next interested buyer. Today I am curious to pay for a carfax report on the car but its a bit pricey. The website that he had me register on is now not letting me sign in to my account for some reason either.. So I am assuming it was a scam or what?? what does every one think??
Im almost positive it is a scam! shut down http://www.onlinetitletransfer.com/ !!!!!

Just edited: the escrow acount details that "they" asked me to send moneygram to:
First Name: LENAK
Last Name: ALBERT
Adress: 5800 Vegas Dr
City: Las Vegas
State: NV
Zip Code: 89108
Country: USA

[lightfair]

I think that you were pretty lucky to have lost your driver's license (as odd as that may sound) because you sound as if you really tried to send the money.

Your friends are right, it's a scam - no question about it. It's a scammer (or group of scammers) we have been seeing here for a few weeks now; targets were so far mostly people in the UK and Ireland (you will find several threads abut this in this forum). But the sites used were identical. The Iraq story is also very familiar.

http://www.onlinetitletransfer.com was registered less than three weeks ago and is hosted in Russia. It's a pretty well know layout:

http://escrow-fraud.com/index.php?page= ... layout=171

I've added the site to our database.

[ulfwolf]

Surely the best way to guard against being ripped off by online sales or auctions of any kind, autos inlcuded, is to use a bona fide online escrow company. Although it does add some cost, that will take uncertainty out of the transaction.

For my money, the best bona fide online escrow (and there seems to be ten fraudulent escrow sites for every bona fide one) is probably Escrow.com (http://escrow.com). In fact, it’s the only one that eBay recommends.

I think this scam could have been averted that way.

Take care,

Ulf Wolf

[dannian007]

Hello everyone. at the outset I would like to apologize for my writings but I come from Polish, and I use google translator. My hisoria the http://www.etransportww.com Hopefully yesterday began to keep up to withdraw money. This may be useful to someone but I managed to get the actual IP computers, access to the global Internet of which were written malil. 24.56.6.182 end 172.163.164.85, and after checking the "whois http://cqcounter.com/whois/" something is shown. IP is dated 31/03/2010. I do not know this but the crooks will probably be used for two more days. A great, I am not a computer scientist but I can steal a computer whose IP is currently written emails. I do not know whether it can be helpful on that because I do not know. Maybe they can somehow be traced. Ignorance that they still withdrew a bank transfer

[andreita]

To every body who is interest there is also a web side to report internet fraud they work with F.B.I and law enforcement on wherever they can but like much people said is very hard to catch who ever is doing this the web side is http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/ lets all cooperate get together give them all info that we know maybe they'll be something done some day it's crazy that this people keep doing this and nobody can stop them I'm not a expert on computers but I'm pretty sure they are some body out there capable of doing it.