Saturday, November 28, 2009

Hendry Kai Ian Car Sale Scam

If you are a (potential) victim of this scam please email: frauddesk@cityoflondon.police.uk.
Some general rules to live your life by:
  • If it seems to good to be true then it probably is.
  • If it quacks like a scam, swims like a scam and waddles like a scam then it's probably a scam.
  • Even if the deal is reeeeeeeeeeeally good.
  • Especially if the deal is really good.
  • Especially if they are selling a new VW Bora in excellent condition for "4000EUR".
Things that should raise suspicions:
  • A seller does not seem to know which way around their own names should go, for example, Hendry is a surname and Ian is a first name , not vice versa.
  • You google the person, and find a big fucking warning in RED and YELLOW on their homepage warning idiots people like you not to fall for the scam.
  • Complicated stories that involve selling goods internationally, eg, I am on business in KENTUCKY USA and I need the iPhone for my son who is in Lagos Nigera... etc, or, the car is in London but for some reason I am selling it on a German website to German users only. See also below.
  • Random capitalised words, eg: "YOU will ask a friend to come with you to Western Union Office. HE will make a transfer so that HE will be the sender and YOU will be the receiver. YOU will receive the money from Western Union in UK,London"
  • Native English speakers making simple errors, eg: "If you are not agree with this depozit i will not have eny problem, you can come to my when you want i dont have problem but i will not keep the car for you until you are here..Let me explain to you way i want this depozit:" (Ironically there is a distinct lack of capitalisation here, as well as uses of Z and missing As that wouldn't even be acceptable in America.)
Things not to trust on the internet:
  • Images of passports. This does not prove anything apart from the fact that the seller has a picture of a passport. That image may have been doctored, the passport may not be real, or they may have just found a picture of someone else's passport that they rather inadvisedly put on flickr.
  • Western Union. It seems that it is very easy to retrieve money from Western Union that is not meant for you.
UPDATE: If you want to scam the scammers a fake Western Union receipt might be in order.

UPDATE: Apparently Mr. Hendry Kai Ian is now offering a BMZ Z4 Cabrio for €5500. Yes, it's still a scam, no matter how much you wish it wasn't.

UPDATE: And a Jeep Wrangler.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

well it seems that the system still works as I just lost 3k.

It seems that it is about a time police to get these guys as i believe they made quite some money ...

Western Union is not making the matter simple as they are wide open as a flood gate...

Jamie said...

Kai has tried contacting the police in the UK and Germany many times, unfortunately they don't seem to be interested. He was actually held up at German airports a couple of times and explained the situation, but still nothing seems to have been done.

Anonymous said...

Hello,
My name is Catalina and I was just contacted by one of these scammers. I'm located in Romania and they still don't know I know it's a scam.
What can I do to help? (beside the fact i won't send them any money)
My e-mail adress is catalina1978@yahoo.com.

Anonymous said...

It is January 2011 and now he sells a opel corsa ;)

Anonymous said...

Hi! Now he sells BMW 320 d board computer 30.01.11 that is what has written me via e-mail. The car costs 4000 euro. The funny price! Hello,
My name is Hendry Kai Ian ,
The car is still for sale.
Where are you located ? Please speak English !
If you are interested in my car please contact me.
Thank you,


his e-mail hsbc.hendry@googlemail.com

in germany but hwe asked me to write in english thats why i thought its scam! be attentive!

Anonymous said...

He's trying to sell VW Sharan 1.9 TDI now. Same old story, car is in London, I just have to send the Western Union receipt and everything will be just fine. What a scum...

Anonymous said...

The licence tag of the corsa (www.autoscout24.de searchparameter: Opel/corsa/4000€/2007) shuld be BT-SE 333. Perhaps it is intresting for somebody.

Anonymous said...

LOL

I just got the same mail regarding his BMW 320 d

Considering adding his mail to a dozen porn sites or similar. Any suggestions?

/The Dane

Jamie said...

I think complaining to the provider might be a better bet.

Anonymous said...

attention!ce sont des escros, ils dise qu'il y a plusieur hacheteur sur l'afair pour vous metre la pression et foncé dans la gueule du loup.ils sont naive pour arnaqué mes ils sont TRE TRE fort sur le piratage informatique.raport calité prix "çA CEST CADEAU"

Anonymous said...

Hello.
I also cheated!
Please all those who are deceived this man.
If there were his letters. - Open letter to him, and then show original (Show titles) - Please write to my email address and send you a mail issue. (korpinsale@mail.ru)
IP addresses, from which came the man.
This man is wanted and you really help if you have or what kind of information.