Car/Auto Data - cold calling scam

fruitcake_2

Just a quick warning for anyone who had advertised their car online for sale. We have been inundated with cold calls from a company posing to be associated with Auto Trader. The number they use, when googled, brings up a forum discussion on other people who have advertised their vehicle via Auto trader online, and have had these endless calls trying to get them to pay for selling ther car. The number, as printed on the other fourm is 02089893669, there are plenty of tother numbers they use, if yo u google this one you'll know what I mean. Hope this helps someone. Auto trader have NO affiliation with them, and if you do get called please let them know, they are as helpful as can be expected.

jaws77

Quite a few companies' with similar names running this 'scam'. Contacting sellers in Autotrader, promising to put buyers in contact for an advance fee of around £80. Best advice, hang up.

See here ---> http://www.blagger.com/db4/company_id/3340/companyname/Vehicle-Match-Services.html

fabbers

This is nothing new and caused me no end of frustration when i tried to sell my car via the Autotrader website a couple of years ago, i gave up in the end.

"We have buyers lined up..........." They'd then say they want paying to list it to which i said if they have buyers lined up how about they buy it off me and then sell it on. They declined...

hollydays

Cardata was featured in a newspaper article recently,journalists deliberately put an advert for a crummy car at a highly inflated price.Cardata rang them claiming to have "buyers lined up", lots of people have lost £80 this way.

Wish_2

Just had a call from them calling themselves The Private Buyer Assosiation.
I googled the number and got to this thread.

I even put in my ad I wanted no tele sales, and I asked him to read it back to me ...... and he did !!!

So he got told to F*** off and I hung up, he only tried calling back again !