ukautotrader - buying a second handcar from a stranger

Tobster86

Do not buy a Toyota Prius either because they are scam. TDI Bluemotion VW Polos and Golfs are better built and more economical.

duncansm

This chap Adam has been very active on Gumtree for the last four months.

He has used the names Adam Pawlak and Adam Nowak
He has used a mobile with the number 07598 903408


He has used multiple email addresses inclluding

nowak78@hotmail.co.uk

Paw78uk@hotmail.com

Adam78uk@hotmail.com



He tries to get people to use escrow agents or brokers and reuses the same website with a new URL every few weeks including

ukautotrader.co.uk

gbautotrader.co.uk

britainautotrader.co.uk

londonautobroker.co.uk This one is the present live one


Please let’s get this guy caught.

OmegaSupreme

what's up with gumtree nowadays? does anyone ever really have a good experience with them?

Happytohelp

londonautobroker.co.uk is still live, RDG can you get it taken down?

For anyone who has found this post as a result of a Google search, please read the whole of the thread.

This alleged escrow service is a scam. It has operated under various names. Do not give any of your hard-earned money to London Auto Broker via the website; londonautobroker.co.uk

The email you received from Gumtree recommending londonautobroker.co.uk is fake, as is the website which is made to look like the official Gumtree site (which claims to endorse this scam escrow service).

property.advert

OmegaSupreme wrote: »

what's up with gumtree nowadays? does anyone ever really have a good experience with them?

They do not seem overly interested in stopping the crooks at all.

Loganfire

Scam pls see above

philhowe13

I have also been conned by this scam!

He operated under the name Adam Michalski using the email address [EMAIL="micha76uk@gmail.com"]micha76uk@gmail.com[/EMAIL]

Same story about Ireland and construction etc!

The car i supposably "bought" was a Seat Ibiza that was actually sitting on a forecourt in Lowestoft.

The garage are aware of this scam and are currently dealing with the police, as i am. The garage are going to keep in contact with me so i will post any updates on here.

humpinhumpo

The guy is now trying to sell a MITSUBISHI L200 using the same trick, beware

alan_s_combe

The Scottish Sunday Mail ( July 15th)"The Judge" columnist ( wwwsundaymail.co.uk) reports a guy from Buckie in Banfshire being scammed for £6000 for a Mitsubishi I 200, The car was on E Bay being sold by a Daniel Gorski. a Polish man supposedly working in Northern Ireland claiming he was returning home and did not require the truck.
The seller claimed that he had set up an "E Bay protection account " giving the buyer £50000 cover should anything go wrong.
Same old story car never appeared Gorski when contacted told the buyer that he had written off the car on the way to Scotland.
E Bay deny all liability and the Bank of Scotland "sympathises" with the buyer but had acted on his instructions.
The matter is being investigated by the West Yorkshire POlice as it turns out the fraud originated there.

thenudeone

Reply back from publicdomainregistry.com:

From: Publicdomainregistry.com Abuse Desk [mailto:abuse@publicdomainregistry.com]
Sent: 16 July 2012 19:11
To: XXXXXXXX
Subject: [~XXXX]: PublicDomainRegistry Abuse Report Form for - londonautobroker.co.uk

Hello,

We were not able to find anything suspicious related to domain "londonautobroker.co.uk". If you are in possession of any fraudulent email originating from this site, then please provide the same along with full headers, so that we can take necessary action against the domain.

Regards,
PDR Abuse Desk.

If anyone can submit an email with headers to their website please do so.

Obtaining the headers is different depending on how you access email.
In gmail, click the down arrow at the top of the email pane (it will show "more" when hovered over), and click "show original". Copy everything in the tab which opens up.
In Outlook 2007, open the message then select the "File" tab, then "Properties" then select everything in the box "Internet headers"
In Windows Live Mail, right click (without opening) select Properties, then the "Details" tab. Select everything in the "Internet headers for this message" box.