Caller: Ashley Smith

I got an SMS from a guy who call himself Ashley Smith, Same story as above, He wants to by the car and need to take it to Dawin.
He only has access to him email (no phone) he tried to make me pay a courier $1900 before his PayPal transfer will clear into my account.
when I told him that he needs to transfer all the money into my account before anything will happen, he disappeared.
100% Scam.

Caller: Ashley Smith

Hi all,

Also received the same text message as above.

“Where is it located at the moment? Final asking price?Why are you selling it? Does it need anything to be replaced or repaired? I'm cool with the condition as described on the advert. I work on a remote mine site presently. and the reception is terrible. We do not have access to a phone at the moment, which is why I contacted you with an internet messaging facility.

Regarding the payment,i will be paying you through PayPal linked up with my Nab bank account, please get back to me with your PayPal details so i can process the payment,you can alternatively send your bsb acct name and number if you have no PayPal acct.

I have also contacted my courier who will come to pick up and deliver it to my place in Darwin after the whole fund has been cleared into your account. As regards the papers, all I will need is a receipt, the rego will have to be done in NT Darwin at my place of residence, so there will be no use for the existing Reg and RWC and i can buy it Unregistered.

Caller: Rosemary Posselt

This scammer has changed up their tactics, now using the name Rosemary Posselt and SMS anonymiser. Followup emails are coming from roseselt098@gmail

Caller: Ashley Smith

Scam email and message from a person claiming to be interstate and wanting to buy my car advertised on Carsales. They offered PayPal payment without inspection or any questions asked and also offered to organise a courier to take it to Darwin. As if. Next step would be paying me extra and giving me a false PayPal receipt and asking me to pay the courier because they have no reception. After I fall for that I would realise that the PayPal receipt was fake. LOL

Ashley Smith contacted re: carsales ad. Thanks for all those who had posted the above as was able to send an email with the subject line ‘piss off idiot’. Email came from ashleysmiths250 @ gmail.com

Caller: Ashley Smith

Also received text message saying they were keen to buy my vehicle listed and to email them at ashleysmiths250 @ gmail.com and the following info, similar to Anon above:

“Where is it located at the moment? Final asking price?Why are you selling it? Does it need anything to be replaced or repaired? I'm cool with the condition as described on the advert. I work on a remote mine site presently. and the reception is terrible. We do not have access to a phone at the moment, which is why I contacted you with an internet messaging facility.

Regarding the payment,i will be paying you through PayPal linked up with my Nab bank account, please get back to me with your PayPal details so i can process the payment,you can alternatively send your bsb acct name and number if you have no PayPal acct.

I have also contacted my courier who will come to pick up and deliver it to my place in Darwin after the whole fund has been cleared into your account. As regards the papers, all I will need is a receipt, the rego will have to be done in NT Darwin at my place of residence, so there will be no use for the existing Reg and RWC and i can buy it Unregistered

Cheers“

Definitely a scam. Please do not liaise with, follow any links or carry out any requested actions by “Ashley Smith”.

Caller: Rosemary Posselt

Exact same Email as others. No reception will pay via PayPal. Low life is now contacting via Email. roseselt098 @ gmail.com

Did not have a call but direct email from “Ashley “, outside of the Car Sales communication Chanel what immediately triggered my suspicion. It was in December 2022 and exactly that same story like others described. Poor reception, prepay transportation, and so on. Knowing that it is scam I had a lot of fun, I drag Ashley for few days until the point when I used his technique agains him and he realised that I am having a fun.

it appears that Ashley Smith is still looking for cars. I have received the same blurb as the other comments although he has sent a car license

Thanks for the alert everyone - got the text from "carsales" and googled ashleysmitth73 (the latest email address it seems) and this page was the only hit. Saves me the effort of the email exchange before finding out it's a scam.

Also received text message to communicate via email
ashleypsmith65 @ gmail.com
Scammer 100%

Caller: Email by Ashley Smith

Same as everyone accept he changed his email to ashleysmithp2 @ gmail.com


Thanks for sharing...Really helpful

Caller: Ashley Smith

messaged me via Carsales with email address smithashleyy70 @ gmail.com. Same story as everybody else with mine site/Paypal/NAB bla bla bla. Researched name and got some alerts from Google re a death and then found all these posts.

Caller: Ashley Smith

As above, same email, contacting through carsales with email ashleypsmith76 @ gmail.com

Caller: Ashley smith

Thanks for sharing this information. I too today was contacted by a person I believed to be Ashley smith. He even provided a NT drivers licence and photo of himself. It was not him, but concerning that he had this persons licence and a photo of him holding the licence. Dead giveaways were the email from PayPal was from paipal and that they asked for money to be able to transfer the funds.

Caller: Ashley Smith emailed me

Same as everyone else here, exactly the same message, too good to be true

Caller: Ashley Smith

Hi all. ashleysmithp2 @ gmail.com is the latest email this piece of sh*t scammer is using !! Sellers beware do not respond. Below is the content of the first email.

Where is it located at the moment? Final asking price?Why are you selling it? Does it need anything to be replaced or repaired? I'm cool with the condition as described on the advert. I work on a remote mine site presently. and the reception is terrible. We do not have access to a phone at the moment, which is why I contacted you with an internet messaging facility.

Regarding the payment,i will be paying you through PayPal linked up with my Nab bank account, please get back to me with your PayPal details so i can process the payment,you can alternatively send your bsb acct name and number if you have no PayPal acct.

I have also contacted my courier who will come to pick up and deliver it to my place in Darwin after the whole fund has been cleared into your account. As regards the papers, all I will need is a receipt, the rego will have to be done in NT Darwin at my place of residence, so there will be no use for the existing Reg and RWC and i can buy it Unregistered

Cheers


This came as a sms with an email to respond to, definitely a scammer!! 100%

Caller: Ashley Smith

Got the exact same today as all the other posters. Thank you everybody for sharing. From your posts, I now know this is a scam and will cut off any further comms.

Thanks for the heads up.
I had the same contact with exactly the same information and details.
Someone needs to pay the %&*$ a visit

No call but got an email for the same Ashley Smith who is on a remote mine site in NT and wants to buy my car and get it couriered to NT.
After a bit of emailing it appear to be to good to be true so a asked him what mine site he works on and that's were it ended