Selling a caravan...Scam email?

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My folks are selling their caravan through caravan club and they got sent this email. To me it seems a bit fishy because of all the similar emails I had whilst selling my car through Gumtree. Like I'm a Navy pilot instructor working away, I'm offshore, Army, Support worker in Africa etc etc.

What do you lot think? When I was getting emails like this they were wanting to pay through western union and very similar to this with wanting to buy without viewing etc. Here's the email:

>Subj: Re: Lunar
>
>Thank you for the mail, i am okay with the
condition Likewise your
>asking price is quite reasonable and
affordable considering others
>I've seen lately, I'll have it for the
listed price. I'm interested
>and consider it sold as am buying it for
my first son as a surprise
>birthday gift and which i don't want him to
know about it until is
>picked up, so can you assure me i will not be
disappointed? I work
>with the military air-force and presently in camp
serving the nation
>which is strictly no calls. My Mode of payment is
PayPal because i
>don't have access to my bank account online, but i
have it attached to
>my PayPal account. Since I'm requesting this
transaction to be done
>via PayPal, I will be responsible for all the
PayPal fees/charges on
>this transaction, if you don't have an account
with PayPal, it's
>pretty easy, safe an secure to open one. Just log on
to
>www.paypal.co.uk.I hope we can make this transaction as fast as

>possible. Less I forgot, I have a Mover that will come for pickup once

>payment is cleared in your PayPal account and they will be handling

>the title for me, as I look forward to hearing from you with your

>PayPal information as requested below.
>
>Your PayPal e-Mail Address :

>Full name:
>Firm Price:
>Address for Pick Up:
>Phone Number:
>

>Awaiting your response asap..
>
>Regards
 
Proceed with extreme caution would be my shout, the usual scam is to have the PayPal transaction reserved after collection.
 
Personally I wouldn't touch that with the proverbial 6 foot barge pole AND I'd pass it on to the Caravan Club as well
 
Scammier than a scammy thing, "with the military air-force and presently in camp serving the nation"
 
You'll receive an email from PayPal confirming the money is in, but if you click on the senders PayPal email you'll see it is actually from something random such as

2626526181@yahoo.com

I had the same with a camera and was asked to dispatch to an address in Nottinham, which he then changed to Northern Ireland. I passed both emails onto the police along with the PayPal details
 
Thanks all. I thought the same but wanted to make sure. I told my folks not to bother and just ignore it. They will pass on the senders details to the caravan club also.
 
Military air force. You got to love the scammers. If it was me I would entertain it for a bit longer and get my hands on the money :) play along a little and let then waste their time. Perhaps you can ask them to transfer it to your lost uncle in Nigeria?
 
Scam city.
"Presently in camp serving the nation?"....please.
Delete.
 
Lol I have some fun with scammers who try to get in contact with me. My folks on the other hand aren't so clued up on all this scamming and technology. They think the world is made of rainbows and roses. Luckily they asked me about it before they gave them any details.
 
the paypal web address is .com and not .co.uk
 
Really, who buys their first son a caravan as a surprise present? :D
 
whats a caravan?
 
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