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Sent exact same thing all the rubbish about marine engineer and for his son good job i looked on here and googled his name thank you all for notifying me thanks again Mark

Ive had this guy pestering me too.. Ive had the email saying he will report me to the police.. Im worried tho because i sent him an invoice but cancelled it straight away when i realised it was a scam!! Will he have my address and stuff now or does it not show on the invoice?

Hi
I too have been contacted by the infamous france williams !!! seems plausable then when you read on he starts demanding that you send him your paypal email address. He never puts a name on the end I too have a car listed for sale it had only been on a couple of minutes and I was contacted by him this to was a"   "" surprise present for his son while he is away being a marine engineer!!!! ""
Need to see if Gumtree can do anything the number he used was

+12027389521

Glad I decided to google him.

T**T

I listed my car on GumTree today 17/06/12 and within an hour I got a text from +15712954976 asking what my last asking price was and to email my response to jesusislord350@gmail.com. When I did I got this response from France.williams115@gmail.com:

Hi thanks for reply, i am a marine engineer, i am at sea right now. I
am buying this for my son as a surprise gift. I can  only pay through
paypal at the moment as i dont have access to my bank account online(i
dont have internet banking with it), but i have it attached to my
paypal account, and this is why i insisted on using paypal to pay,all
i will need is your paypal email address to make the payments, and if
you dont have a paypal account yet, you can set one  it cant take you
less than 3mins to do that, i will be expecting your paypal email so l
can pay.  I have a pick up agent that will come for the pick up after
payments has been sorted,  l will be waiting for your reply asap..

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What is your last asking price ??

When I replayed asking who would be signing the transfer of ownership papers he said his agent would have power of attorney to sign them. I then googled 'PayPal scams' and came across this page. I am very glad I was smart enough to do so. It all seemed too good to be true! Always ask for cash on pick up!!

Thanks to everyone for posting on here! I was contacted by Captain France Williams about selling my car as a present for his son and with an agent to come collect after funds cleared! I got the same text and emails as everyone else andI am so glad I did some research as I found all your comments and it has really helped me NOT to make a bad decision!!

He sent his initial text from a US number: +1 (571) 418 4263 and used france.williams115@gmail.com

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!

Have a great day! ;)

I listed my car on gum tree today and had contact via on on-line text message within 2 hours.

Since me sending an email back telling him how much i wanted he has sent me the exact same marine biologist story email as is listed here.

I am in the uk so clearly this guy will try anywhere. Thankfully the email was so fishy(excuse the pun) that I googled him before replying.

Hi! I am so glad you all Have uploaded your experiences! I just had the France Williams email asking about my car, he's a sea marine, etc etc and I thought this is odd because the text didn't have a number and the wording was all out!

I said to my partner sounds weird and googled it and here it is!

Scammer!!

Same here, what a knob, no number to reply to, just a request for me to e-mail final payment price.

Why can,t police trace this piece of S**t, or is that to much like hard work

Hi I have just got all the same happen to me as in above e mails, France Williams wanted to buy my car for £2000.00 via paypal thankfully as soon as I read it  Ithought it was not right so went no further. I hope this person gets caught soon.
When he text me for price of car the number was witheld but the name Skibarr came up and he asked me to e mail him at france.williams115@gmail.com.

Hi Yes I have had the same message today as Brian Morgan. Dodgy [***] wants deporting or shooting. I have to reported him to the police and advised him my tracking sofware knows where he is. Dont mess with IT gurus they can track you down. Soon as I looked at it it was to good to be true.

had a message from this france williams today after posting an add on gumtree.. although no number was present and the text came had a name rather than a number from "stevenwool"

Glad I checked on here first.. now to decide.. do i play with this scumbag for a bit?

Wow, so glad I looked! Just had the text and the exact same email - he's a marine engineer, buying the car for his son etc.  It was actually the fact that his email was all in lower case that made me suspicious (after all surely a marine engineer wouldn't be almost illiterate!)! I couldn't work out how he could scam us when it apparently would be him paying us, however all clear now thanks to this site.  

We're also in the UK so I'm surprised that this is a global scam & I can see he's been busy this week.  Will tell him where to go! Thanks everyone.

Thanks to this site I found after googling France Williams I have saved a lot of time and effort.

Got the same text and same email message. thank god I decided to google him the dirty scumbag, he was using the email

france.williams115@gmail.com

exactly the same text, I received..  this guy can't even change his tactic...  :D   He's so stupid

just had the same message from a stevemarsh4 which is asking me for a final price on my car which is being advertised on gumtree , again as most of the above he wants a reply to france.williams115@gmail.com same scammer , i,ve decided to reply because i fancy winding the tw-t up just be careful

i too have the same issue frome mr france williams whos textd me off a number coming up as steven wool. Same story wants car for his son blah blah blah but people this is what you need to do you need to ring action fraud on 03001232040 or you can go online and report it on there website https://reportfraud.actionfraud.police.uk/FraudReport/Intro.mvc/Intro whatever you dont send money to thed scam artist if you look very closely the email address is different to paypal as it comes up as service@paypal.co.uk. an extra . at the end and paypal is service@paypal.co.uk, also the real email its coming from is onlineverifiedteam@secureroot.com please report this person im so gladded i googled him.

Hi

I just received a text message from this bloke asking for my "last asking price" on an item on ebay. I,m glad I checked him out with you!

Thanks

france williams is a scam artist....he was buying my car for his son..hahahahahahahaha [***]

France Williams, still at it! Just tried to buy our van. I don't think his son's going to get a surprise present at this rate..

france.williams@gmail.com wishes to purchase my car for his son , this guy is a marine engineer at sea at the moment , seems to be buying lots of cars for his son , maybe he has many sons ? LOL
well i think im gonna accept the paypal and let him send an agent round to collect the thick end of the baseball bat :) and teach these scamming fuckwits a lesson once and for all , as the police are to busy moving on groups of 4 or 5 kids standing outside shops to be dealing with these foreign scam artist's !