61428465117

same number - Kellie Estrella. . . think I'm gonna have some fun with them hehehe . . .

Same experience here from ericfrank800@gmail.com. Googled his email as it sounded dodgy and going numerous pages explaining this scam. Got the following email. Sellers beware!!


Thank you for getting back to me..I'm quite satisfied with the condition and price. I will be paying the PayPal charges from my account and i will be paying directly into your PayPal account without any delay,and i hope you have a PayPal account. If you have one already, just send me the address to send it to, which is the email address you use for it or you can send me a PayPal money request, so once i receive the details i will go ahead with the payment through PayPal and then i will contact my shipping company after you get the payment. I will need your home address for it to be Picked Up by the Shipping Company..i will like to look forward from you soon

He's still out there scamming..
Pretending to be female and using the email address - rebeccapedro3@outlook.com

I'm selling a car on www.carsguide.com.au and this Joe reply that he would like to buy my car.
this is he's reply
Thanks for the response,I would have loved to call you directly but due to the nature of my work we do not have access to phone at the moment,which is why I contacted you with internet messaging facility.What is your last negotiable price?


Am buying this for my son for his 21st birthday. He lives in Darwin presently so is going to be shipped to Darwin after have sorted out with the payment, i want to be sure if it is still in good condition ,i will not be able to come for inspection now all i really need from you is the exact details of the car. I don't mind adding an extra $300.00 for you just to take down the posting.


Due to the nature of my work i am a very busy man working all day,am a sailor am presently on-board, i don't have access to my bank account online as am not with my credit card details here but i have my ANZ bank account link up with my PayPal account so I will be paying you through PayPal to your nominated bank account or better still is if you have a PayPal account ,please get back to me with your BSB and account details or PayPal account so i can proceed with the payment and contact the courier agent who will come to pick it up and deliver it in NT for my son .Await your reply . The name he is using this name he is JOE OLIVER.And the email address is joliver488@gmail.com and babara.Rebecca 18@gmail.com

Me too

I got this exact same message. Didnt know was a scammer, so i emailed it. And now have since seen that its a scam. Is my money/personal details in trouble now since i have emailed back saying yes car still is for sale and for 'x' amount????

Got the same emailed jargon as everyone else in reply to an SMS from +61 428 465 117 responding to an advert I have on carsales.com.au.

The email went into great detail saying the car was a gift for his son who just graduated on top of his class from Charles Darwin University studying building, design & architecture.  Said he'd contacted a shipping company to transport the car from VIC to NT. Said price wasn't an issue.

Alarm bells started ringing because my car's a girly car - started thinking why would someone buy a girly car for their son?  Also, surely there are more suitable cars in the NT to save shipping costs.  Not to mention paying so much money to buy a car, sight unseen!

He asked for more info on the car.  What more could I give?  I certainly wasn't going to give any personal details.

Started doing some research and came across this...

The name used is Desmond Gan with the email address of desmdgan87@gmail.com

Thought it sounded too good to be true!

After more thought ... I thought I'd have a little fun with him - replied to his email requesting personal information about him for Vic Roads & NT Transport before I will give him bank details.  Let's see what his reply will be...

got a message from this no regarding my motorbike on gumtree he said he would put money into my paypal account but needed 500 paid to western union for transit  total scam his email was gregjones101@gmail.com ............beware

criket4ever@gmail.com
we just had this email thread happened to us and luckily I looked up his email address and found this site.. thanks everyone for posting and letting others know

Hi all,
I have recently placed an advert on gumtree and have had a similar experience, name was Kellieestrella23@gmail.com.

I would like to try something...
This person has been running this scam for some time now, over a year on the same number with several attempts per day in general. This has to stop! After trying the official route it would seem that there is a multitude of barriers in place that limit the available information to the public, i.e. the data protection act. It is very apparent that the authorities have no intention of catching this thief as they are obviously looking for the types who pose a threat to the bigger picture and not to the little man. In my opinion the morality of conning individuals is far worse than that of big business as the individual has no insurance, real assistance etc. for this reason I propose that we find a way to action this ourselves.

There are various websites that can aid in locating the origin of an email, there are also ways of tracing telephone numbers, (although they tend to have a price tag attached) there are a myriad of ways to locate through social media and the like. somewhere this person will have used one of his/her aliases in a place of public domain and it is our job to find it.

If everyone on here were to post what they have found then the magnitude of this persons thievery would be apparent, some headway would be made and maybe the authorities could find due course for a investigation

so here goes:
Obviously it would depend on the setup as to the accuracy of the location however it may give some insight.
The e-mail I received came from IP address 209.85.216.196 and using "Trace Route Locator" the location shown is Atlanta, Georgia, United States. (this is not the Host address as Google HQ is in Mountain View, CA). I think most are convinced that this person is based in Australia which would stand to reason but does not tie in with the result from this IP.
I am aware of two numbers that this person operates from: 61429100703 & 61428465117. They use the following websites: Ebay, Gumtree, Carsguide.com.au, Carsales, Donedeal Ireland and Trading Post.
This is all I have found out but if we team together and post everything we find perhaps the bigger picture will expose its self.

Other thoughts are if someone could access their email address, find a profile they have created, of otherwise find them amongst pay-pal or eBay then that would help. Sure there's some clever person out there who knows how to to this!

Please be careful not to post any personal info and good luck.

This "rose" is at it again trying to purchase my vehicle off of Auto Trader in Canada.  Hardly had my ad listed and got two inquiries that were similar.  Clearly a scam.      bertonscott02@outlook.com   656-464-6564  was the other one.  Off on an oil rig or something, really!

This clown is still at it. Today it calls itself Helina on the 22/2/14. Helinanathan@gmail.com is it's email. It messaged me about my car for sale on gumtree in Australia.

Hi got an sms and email from the same person with same name this morning, i gave him my phone and emails id luckily i did not go through with my paypal details which he has asked.  thanks guys for your help as when I searched his details i was taken to this site. shocking.

Hi i have received the same and yes its all suspect.

I just had the same thing with that guy behind "edenmanfred46@gmail.com"; he wanted to buy a vespa in Switzerland for transfer to Canada. And his Mobile is registered with the name "Sandy Gold"??!

Thank you for posting this; I guess and hope everyone gets suspicious by his emails and is googeling his name like I did.
Thank you so much!!!!

Thanks guys; this post just saved me from embarrassing myself. I too just got texted by Desmond Gan and was on the point of wasting my time with an email to him. Glad I googled the sucker....

Got message and email today re car for sale on gumtree. Gave bsb  and account and my business card. Should have known better. The email was the story the same as blackjedda above. Have since notified westpac. Loser

This scam is still happening. Advertised my car on 'Gumtrees' in Perth last night and received a text message this morning, but this one was from an un-displayed number and headed 'Inquiry'. Reply was to jasonmaxwell2010@gmail.com.
The reponse to my email came from  Janet Maxwell who was keen to buy the car sight-unseen and ship it to Darwin.

yes i have been contacted by Mark Oliver who is working on a ship and wants to buy my car. he puts the money into a paypal account but needs me to pay $1750 to a courier in china before funds are released over sale of my car. big scam.
the scammer has contacted me again under the name rebecca barbara - same MO.
i contacted my bank who advised to only accept a bank cheque from someone who has actually seen the car.
mark oliver has also been associated with loot related scams as well.
these scammers just spend all day waiting for someone to make an error and there is $1750 in his chinese account. nice if you can get it.