It started out with my brother, who lives in Colorado, trying to find a used Motorhome… he did
, and this is what he found… a 2000 Fleetwood Jamboree. The idea was to have a vehicle that would allow him to visit us here in Florida. He has a number of dogs that would HAVE to come with him, as it would normally take several weeks to make the trip.
This all sounded good, and over the next several days he dealt with a Gianni Simone.. well here is a portion of the first email.
Hello,
The Fleetwood is still available for sale. It’s a 2000 Fleetwood JAMBOREE RALLYE, 8 – Cyl., White, 29.5′ feet, 28,180 miles, automatic, single owner, extremely clean camper, locks and seats, sound system, clean title and no accidents. I just changed the generator oil and filter. All the maintenance have been performed to the Fleetwood dealer only. As for the engine oil, i always used Amsoil Premium 10W-40W, i know that it’s the best for my RV. No leaks from rain, no damage on the camper, ALL SYSTEMS 100% WORKING.
I’m the owner and the camper is paid off. My father worked at Fleetwood Motor Homes of California and had access to the employee store. Now the I’m located in Lake Havasu City, AZ and the RV is with me. The reason i’m selling it is that i need some money to buy a new house, we want to move in Phoenix. I just got promoted with my job and i need to move to my new office in Phoenix.
If you are interested and you have the funds available you can buy it on ebay by hitting Buy it Now button and complete the process. Also on ebay you will find more pictures and more details/specifications about the RV.I’ll be able to arrange shipping if needed at my expenses, but i want to close the sale trough ebay to secure our deal, because it protects both buyer and seller.
Many thanks,
Gianni Simone
It seemed to be a great deal, though he wanted $1,000 or $2000 upfront.. A deal was worked out to purchase the vehicle through the Ebay Vehicle Purchase Protection (VPP) plan.. That sounded good. The idea was that we would wire transfer the money to Payment must be submitted via Bank Wire Transfer to an
eBay Financing Center Agent in charge of this transaction. Below is a portion of the instructions.
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eBay
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* Once we
receive the payment confirmation, we will instruct the seller to start the shipping. We will hold the payment details until you send us your confirmation that you are satisfied with the product you received. As soon as we receive your confirmation we will release the payment details to the seller.
On Tuesday Mom and I checked with my brother, and headed to Bank of America to send the funds. It was just like one of those movies. As they young lady at the bank was getting ready to send the funds out cell phone rang. When we were able to get in touch with my brother his first words were, “do not send the money, its a fraud”. It seems he had contacted Ebay and had been told it was NOT a valid sale… The young lady at the BoA was able to stop the transfer, and so the story pretty much ended on a good note…. Take this to heart… The scammers are getting more sophisticated all the time.. several of the email that my brother sent me looked, as far as I could tell, as if they had come from Ebay. PS.. I have found that if you put the sellers Email address into google, gias80@aol.com you can find at least 4 more cars that he has listed… There also seems to be another Email account connected to him, gias880@gmail.com but, I have not gotten any information about who that is either… As far as I know we have not gotten anymore communication from Gianni Simone about the aborted transaction so I would assume, there is that word, that, whoever he is, he has no defence.
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That Joe Guy 
Whoa, whoa, get out the way with that good infromaiton.
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