This is the latest innovation of scammers. They advertise cars on nation classifieds and also online with very cheap prices. Their choice car is Toyota corolla 110 and sometimes Toyota corolla 100. When you call them they ask you where you are, if you say Nairobi, they'l say the car is somewhere in Naivasha or Thika and they ask you to go and have a look. Most times you will ask them if they can bring the car to you, to which after some hesitation they'l agree. Here is where they ask you to add a little fuel to the car of say 1000bob. You'l send them the money and when u try to call them back, they'l give u stories and more stories till u give up.

tell him to add the fuel cost onto the sales price. Furthermore that's a cost that the seller should meet. Sounds like those niaja scams of sijui pay processing fee to receive some millions of $$ left by an old lady!

why would I pay you for extras and you are the one selling your car...thats where alarm bells start ringing

It costs 400bob to post a single line ad on Daily Nation classifieds and these people put at least one ad everyday. So they must be conning quite a high number of Kenyans on a daily basis to be able to put up such ads.

Thought it was fake cars like you are duped into buying a shiny mercedes lakini ukifungua boot, you see a peougot engine, brakes za piki piki kwa driver saddle, and realise its a subaru that was panel beaten near kibera, using mabati and filler, to look like a merc 180c.

What Dida say: If you see a society being conned by such scams then know that there is a problem!!!

Why do u even send a cent to a stranger?
If he cant fuel the car and take it the buyer then let him sell it hapo machinani.

not always.
"a friend" was bitten once by those criminals while changing houses. they will advertise something like 2br in a nice area at "good prices". you take all caution and clealry describe what you are looking for. they say its available, then you pay 2500 and are shown very bad houses.

be careful with agents.

@ Muchknow now that your bring this up maybe it should be the next frontier.
I wouldn't wait to hear a guy talking of how he bought a Merc only to find it has the engine of a beetle. It would be a practical case of Ni kama Drama, ni kama vindeo!!

Unless the current house you are leaving in has been invaded by mademonis and jinis, never be in a hurry to move houses, anyone looking for a tenant will never want you to pay even a single cent just to view the house, even the landlords/ladies are tired of the agents, they will want the hse vacant as long as possible so they can make more money and the owner loses in such cases