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Email from Sweden offering to buy my car for export: when I laid down the only terms I would deal with them I heard nothing more...

I had an e-mail from a Ben Johnstone [guarantor4ever@yahoo.se] in Sweden offering to buy my car for export. I am fairly certain this is a scam as I replied that it was all fine but I would not pay shippers fees - these must be paid direct beforehand - and the shipper must be a member of, and check out with, the BIFA (The British International Freight Association) beforehand. I have not had a subsequent response.

We agree with you that it is an attempted fraud. These scammers seem to be targeting a number of car sales sites with a phishing email at the moment and for some reason this weeks seems to be the one for "Scandinavian" buyers.

The specific name Ben Johnstone shows up on our fraud list. The surface address is for the Clarion Hotel in Stockholm and also an accommodation address which seems to belong to a Language School.

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