one time i wanted to purchase a three-wheeler motorbike/scooter that normally retailed at $8000, so i searched online to find the best price that i could. then i found a website that was selling about 20 different motorbikes, all brand-new but last year's models, all at 25% off. they said that they had purchased too many of them and just couldn't sell them all. then i began emailing the contact person back and forth to potentially arrange to make a purchase. i was asked for all of my private contact information and instructed to send the money via western union before i would receive a receipt. the websites mailing address was a PO Box in another state, but the company itself originated from outside of the country. i realized that i would have no legal recourse if i were to actually send the money, so i declined from sending money or private contact information. i was very disappointed that someone would get my hopes up like that, but i reported it to a fraud agency.