He said he would get his agent to pick the vehicle up from us as soon as the money cleared into our account. He wanted to pay by paypal again and wanted to know our paypal email address. We thought it was dodgy as soon as he offered to buy the car without even wanting to see it! It just didn’t make sense that someone would take our word for it that it was in good condition, without even seeing it, esp on a small island where no-one’s that far away to drive to! Then when he mentioned his “agent” picking it up it sounded even dodgier….

I suspect it’s either something to do with money laundering…whereby he pays you the money and then asks you to forward it to someone else or it bounces back again out of your account after he has already picked your vehicle up….as soon as I told my friend someone had offered to buy it off us, before I even had chance to tell her anything about it, she said “if they offer to get someone to pick the car up as soon as the money goes into your account it’s a scam!”….and apparently it’s pretty common over here.

It’s a shame we don’t know how to scam the scammer….give them a piece of their own medicine for once!

I am currently trying to sell my car in Hong Kong, I got contacted by a Micheal Lowe who agreed to the price and wanted to pay me by PayPal, which I thought was a bit odd. He then asked me to transfer HK$3,500 by Western Union to his “agent” who would collect the car as Micheal himself was currently “at sea”. I told him that I would only transfer money to his agent AFTER the funds had cleared into my bank account and that was the last I heard from him. He’s clearly got some kind of scam going with stolen credit cards.

Thank you so very much for this information. Man, I was about to become the latest sucker in this operation.

i seen all the postings and had to write everyone, i know these guys that are doing these scams, and i have proof that it is for sure Micheal Brooks and Kali Ashford (brooks now), her is a pic of her and a pic of micheal is on her myspace http://www.naymz.com/kali_ashford_502723 and http://www.facebook.com/kali.brooks, they have a few guys that work for them, they build a website and collect money and them move on to the next, i did contact the FBI with this info and they did already have a file on him, the SA that is working on the case asked detailed things about him, like size skin color and what kali looked like, i also told them they have a kid and also the overseas places he goes (since i have been with him on several trips) this guy has made a good life for himself on nothing but ripping people off, any one looking for help with this contact the FBI and look into the case number, last i talked to them they had more then 20 people in the complaint and gave great details as to who he is, were his mother is, and were his father is, last i knew the Newport Beach address JJ put down was in that report as well, i know they are building a case so when they grab him its for life, so rest easy and know hes going down soon.

Also beware there are a few post here, that am sure is him, say that the guys name is different, dont belive that post, the name involved to list a few are: Micheal brooks, kali ashford now kali brooks and micheal lowe, theses three people are the core of this scam and will be moving on to the next soon, “angela Penbrook is a spin off name Micheal came up with, Anna a employee took a payoff so he can use her name, penbrook is a mix of micheals last name and a pin thrown at micheal when he was on the phone getting the DBA set…. it seems like a joke but i was there when i happen.

i feel so bad i was even around people who could do this to people, and anything i can do to help i will, i have all there personal cell numbers and pics of them, also all the website’s he has made

P.s make you famous consulting is another company he owed, also he has a credit card processing firm, that’s how he get the ability to process credit cards

Yes…….FACISM is alive & well in America – It did not die when Benito Mussolini was Dictator of Italy during World War II!