Having acquired his new car (in light of the vitriolic comments when last we mentioned it we will say nothing more about it) he has been trying to off-load his old car aka the hunk of junk.
Having put it on Exchangeandmart.com he was literally inundated with one e-mail from some bloke called John Scott willing to pay the asking price having not seen it. Alarm bells began to ring.
He then said he would send a cheque and of course our subject was not stupid enough to fall for that old chestnut and made clear he would not release the car until it had cleared and "John" seemed happy with that. Then John said that his secretary had made an error and made the cheque out for £2,000 too much as she had included the "shipper's fees" by mistake and would our subject mind moneygramming that extra money to the shipper once received. The alarm bells are ringing like billyo by now.
Then the cheque arrives. Now our lad can be a bit of a naif on occasion and has been known to have occasional common sense bypasses but even he can spot that the London Borough of Enfield is unlikely to be sending a cheque for John's new motor. A quick call to the finance department at the council revealed that the cheque bearing that number was for £97 payable to a Mrs Duale and cashed in February 2003.
Unsuprisingly the boys in blue were called and the story laid out for them. Birmingham's finest did however turn up at the office to interview him leading to much speculation that he had been caught kerb-crawling (again).
We hold out little hope that the fraudster will be caught but we will keep you posted.
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