Question by Edward Maggard: Is Best Bank out of Atlanta part of Yahoo finance. Do they serve as a mediator for online deals or scam?
Transaction Details:
2004 Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic FLHTCUI

Sale price: $ 6,200
Quantity: 1
Deposit: $ 6,200 [PENDING]
Shipping & Handling: Included.
Insurance: Included.
Sales tax:
$ 0.00

Buyer Details

Full Name: Charles Maggard
Address: 139 Lark Ave.
City/State: Brooksville FL
Zip Code: 34601
Country: United States
Status: [APPROVED]

How to make the payment:
Payment must be sent by: Bank Transfer
Next step to be taken: The Buyer must transfer the payment to Yahoo! Finance Agent

Details for Item: 2004 Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic FLHTCUI
Seller: John Egan
Payment procedure: 1. Go to your bank in person and transfer the funds to the designated bank account listed below.
2. Reply to this email to confirm that payment was sent.
3. Fax the bank transfer receipt to the following fax number: (855) 782-1189.

Yahoo! Finance Representative Bank Details

Bank Name: Best Bank
Bank Address: 1700 Monroe Dr, Atlanta GA 30324
Acct. Owner: Trenell Breen
Acct. Owner Address: 5520 Arundel Drive NW, Atlanta GA 30327
Acct. Number: 838 210 791
Routing Number: 275 071 288

Important Information

The nominated account is the Yahoo! Finance bank account for this transaction. It is not a seller’s personal account, and is totally controlled by our account manager. Trenell Breen is a trusted Yahoo! Finance agent. We use agents to receive your payment to avoid additional taxes.

As a protective measure for the parties involved in this transaction the funds will be held in a bank account managed by Yahoo! Finance agents until you receive the item(s) ordered.

An inspection period of 7 days will be given to the buyer to inspect the item(s) shipped. The inspection period begins on the working day (Monday – Friday) after the goods have been received and continues for the number of working days set. The day the goods are received is established according to the consignment date indicated by the courier or the transport company.

If a refund is requested, the inspection period is ended, and the refund request is processed within 3 working days.

If you have further questions or need additional support please reply directly to this email.

Why Participate in a Yahoo! Finance Managed Transaction:
Absolutely Free – there is no cost to you.
Unbiased and Neutral – Yahoo! Finance is an objective third party. Highly effective in completing a successful transaction.
Simple and Quick – most transactions settle within 5 days with less than 2 hours of total time from you.

Good Answer:

Answer by queen of answers ♫
DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ANY MONEY

This is a scam.
Yahoo Finance, Craigslist, Ebay Motors ..none of these people act as a 3rd party. They are advertise the item ONLY>

This is a well known scam.
The person you are giving the money to is the person himself.
He will take your money and thats the end of it.
He’ s not going to ship you anything.

I can give you sites that will prove this..but I’m going to post this first so you dont give this guy any money. You’ll lose every single dollar

Read points 5 & 6 here

http://www.ehow.com/how_3390861_spot-car-scams-craigslist.html

These people are relentless on Craigslist and Ebay with these scams. Never buy something you cant see and check out…for this big amt of money.

Ask for the VIN number so you can check it out.

Edit
This is the link I was looking for

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/finance/basics/fitatransscams.html

You cant report internet fraud on the FBI site too.

http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/fraud/internet_fraud/internet_fraud

They could nab this guy on the other end. These people rob honest people. They are criminals

Answer by Buffy Staffordshire
100% scam.

There is NO 2004 Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic FLHTCUI,

There are stolen pictures of someone else’s 2004 Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic FLHTCUI.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money by using several fake names, several free email address, fake story, stolen pictures and a personal bank account that may or may not belong to him.

The next email was from one of the scammer’s fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the “Trenell Breen of Yahoo Finance” and has demanded you pay for “shipping costs”, in cash, and only by bank transfer.

Your bank can only get your money back if there is money left in the scammer’s bank account. Scammers know this and will immediately withdrawal the money you transferred. No money in the account means absolutely no possibility of you getting your hard-earned cash back.

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 cheap vehicles, 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.

If you google “fake car bike boat shipping scam”, “western union shipping fraud”, “fake Yahoo Finance email” or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.

Check out the one and only real Yahoo Finance website and read up on what they really do, how they do it and what they do NOT do.

Answer by Kittysue
100% SCAM

Yahoo Finance is a page that reports on business news and stock quotes. Yahoo does NOT handle any sort of financial transactions – this is a criminal falsely using Yahoo’s name
THIS is Yahoo Finance http://finance.yahoo.com/ — as you can see it has NOTHING to do with car sales or any other financial transactions as Yahoo does not have any payment systems or have any agents. If they did, wouldn’t it be very visible on the Yahoo Finance homepage?

Since you have an actual bank account number you need to contact the FBI Field Office in Atlanta right away to report this

http://www.fbi.gov/atlanta

2635 Century Parkway N.E.,
Suite 400
Atlanta, GA 30345
Phone: (404) 679-9000
E-mail: atlanta@ic.fbi.gov

and hopefully they can catch this criminal

Do not delay – the longer you wait the more chance he has of getting away

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