Autotrader vehicle purchase screwed

BigBopper

rockall81 wrote: »

metropolitan

You previously wanted to buy a car in Swindon. Have you moved to London? I don't see what this has to do with the met unless the offender is living in their force area. City of London are the lead with fraud and have the partnership with action fraud.

There are a number of holes in your story. Probably enough for me to doubt this ever happened.

glentoran99

you cant recall bank transfers

bigjl

BigBopper wrote: »

Not necessarily what?

Are we talking City of London Police? At the moment the offence should be recorded at your home address by your local police, unless they know where the offence has taken place or where the offender is.

City of London Police are always the Force that deals with these kind of financial crimes.

I wonder if it could be due to the physical location of the Banks that would process these transactions.

LiGhTfasT

Wow, I see these ads all the time on gumtree, AT and ebay. Such an obvious scam that I cant believe the OP is telling the truth.

Ebay is very good at removing the listings but they just relist with another car, I suppose it makes the market value lower as people think there are cars out there for peanuts when they try sell their own.

BigBopper

bigjl wrote: »

City of London Police are always the Force that deals with these kind of financial crimes.

I wonder if it could be due to the physical location of the Banks that would process these transactions.

That's not correct, action fraud if it warrants an investigation send it to the most appropriate force to deal. Every police force has the ability to and does deal with its own frauds.

bigjl

albionrovers wrote: »

Dark Matter alert

There are a few old names surfacing with extremely low post counts of late.

I have given up trying to prevent people eating their time replying as some people thought to do that was wrong.

Like the "Nurse" being asked to transport patients thread and probably the one with the BMW Hire Car having a small cut in the sidewall thread.

Hasbeen

bigjl wrote: »

There are a few old names surfacing with extremely low post counts of late.

I have given up trying to prevent people eating their time replying as some people thought to do that was wrong.

Like the "Nurse" being asked to transport patients thread and probably the one with the BMW Hire Car having a small cut in the sidewall thread.

Agree here!! my post agreeing with an another poster that this was perhaps a wind up and to stop feeding was deleted along with poster that dared suggest it?

So keep replying, someone is making money!!

Ps waiting on this getting delated as well?

vikingaero

k18dan wrote: »

So I spotted this very scam happening on AutoTrader a few weeks ago.. I reported the Ad straight away using AT's very own 'Report button' However it was still live over a week later.

I guess AT condone this sort of scam?

All AT care about is that they get paid for the ad insertion - even if it's with a stolen credit card. I could spend hours reporting AT ads but don't bother as 95% of the time they don't do anything.

arcon5

That's because typically you find a car you like, you arrange to see it then complete purchase from there. Sometimes there may be transactions where you pay somebody say twenty quid fuel so they can drive the car to a location that suits you (i've done it before), but paying logistic companies to deliver an unpaid car residing in another country to you on the basis it can be returned if you don't like it is backwards. Frankly anybody falling for a scam like must have stopped maturing as a teenager.
If it was a company then I can understand parting with some cash before seeing a car, but that's a whole other scenario.

So why should autotrader care? !

facade

Hasbeen wrote: »

So keep replying, someone is making money!!

Who is making money?
How?
Why isn't it me?
Am I toiling away making someone else rich? :eek: