Friday, February 24, 2012

It's a Car, Not a Boat

For the past couple weeks, we've been trying to sell our extra car. Adam got an email the other day asking if the car was still available, and he said yes. Then he got this response:

"I so much appreciate your response to my earlier mail.Am Ok with the price for the car i wish to let you know that I'm satisfied with the condition.Like I said there's no doubt I'm going to purchase it if you are ready to sale it for me.Therefore I want you to consider it sold by withdrawing the advert.Note that you will not be responsible for shipping and handling.My pick up agent will come to your location for pick up.Kindly provide me your name and full address,so i can forward it to pick up agent to calculate the cost of pick up for me.I would like you to know that the payment will be made via PayPal because is fast and secured to send and received money online, All you have to send me now is your full address where the car we be pick-up and your PayPal email address so that i can proceed with the payment immediately.Hope to hear from you soon."

Obviously, this was a scam, but rather than just ignoring it, Adam decided to have little fun with this guy and emailed him back:
"greetingsso sorry in the delay of respones to email. i will only be able to accept cash sales thanks you much appreciate"

Well, the guy apparently wasn't quick enough to catch on to the fact that Adam suddenly was using broken English and improper spelling, and he replied again:
"Thanks for the response,i am more than happy to see you write back...I would have love to called you to discuss this issue more better but my mobile phone is playing up The Handset is kinda waterlogged and therefore unpredictable to use the only way for me to contact you for now is via pc if not because of that i would have called you earlier,I'm at the sea at the moment.i am a sailor and i really want to make this purchase.I insisted on PayPal because i don't have access to my bank account online as i don't have internet banking, but i can pay from my PayPal account as i have my bank a/c attached to it.I will need you to give me your PayPal email address so i can make the payments asap...please if you don't have PayPal account yet, it is
very easy to set up, go to WWW.PayPal.com and get it set up...after you have set it up i will only need the e-mail address you use for registration with PayPal so as to put the money through."

Well, appreciative of the man's instructions on how to use Paypal (haha), Adam responded once more:

"Greetings greafull for reply, it is cause of difficulties to use paypal account as to password is diffrent and this causes upredictable uses for using paypal via pc login. it is much of easy to signup with online bank account. you need visit bank website at WWW.(nameofbank).com their you login with information it is not hard too do. it is pleasurable to me that you are sailor but this car is vary far away from sea, it does not go well in deep water, maybe we need to find you a boat to buy.
Cheers."

Haven't heard anything back from our potential buyer, but I've gotten quite a few chuckles out of this. Adam's so funny...and so few people know it! (I'm still laughing out loud and I've read this message several times...)

4 comments:

Rita said...

Haha :) Cannot stop laughing! I love it!

Breanne said...

This is SO awesome. "It does not go well in deep water" rofl

David and RaieGene Robison Family said...

Oh my!! How funny!! Way to go ADAM!!

Karolyn said...

hilarious!!!

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