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Car sale scam

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  • arcon5
    arcon5 Posts: 14,099 Forumite
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    marleyboy wrote: »
    Even NATO or the UN cannot help you OP, the EU has even less of a chance.

    I'm sure they could if they really wanted to
  • Yoshush
    Yoshush Posts: 6 Forumite
    Noone will bomb anyone so no nato nato needed i just want my 20k euros back
  • usefulmale
    usefulmale Posts: 2,627 Forumite
    Yoshush wrote: »
    I saw a bargain ad on my dream car i ran for it...i appreciate all comments but please can you stop reminding me how much i f##_kd up...and if someone has a solution to help...i have his name and first name...

    You have already been told. There IS no solution to this. Your money has gone for good. Wise up and learn from it is the best you can hope for now.
  • Retrogamer
    Retrogamer Posts: 4,218 Forumite
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    I find this very difficult to believe. I'm not saying this didn't happen but you're saying you sent x amount of money (hopefully not too much!) to someone abroad who you've never, through a means of which you'd have no way of getting it back and you don't even have the supposed address of the person?
    All your base are belong to us.
  • Hasbeen
    Hasbeen Posts: 4,404 Forumite
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    I do not understand why anyone is even replying to this post, even myself LOL.

    Lurking under bridges??
    The world is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. Napoleon
  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    €20k is worth chasing - that is CHASING. You go and find the bloke you gave the money to. The courts can only help if you can identify the individual.
  • Yoshush
    Yoshush Posts: 6 Forumite
    Not gonna find help here obviously...
  • RichardD1970
    RichardD1970 Posts: 3,797 Forumite
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    Retrogamer wrote: »
    I find this very difficult to believe. I'm not saying this didn't happen but you're saying you sent x amount of money (hopefully not too much!) to someone abroad who you've never, through a means of which you'd have no way of getting it back and you don't even have the supposed address of the person?
    Yoshush wrote: »
    Noone will bomb anyone so no nato nato needed i just want my 20k euros back

    :eek:.....
  • bris
    bris Posts: 10,548 Forumite
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    Retrogamer wrote: »
    I find this very difficult to believe. I'm not saying this didn't happen but you're saying you sent x amount of money (hopefully not too much!) to someone abroad who you've never, through a means of which you'd have no way of getting it back and you don't even have the supposed address of the person?
    All to common I'm afraid to say, the OP is not the first and wont be the last to get sucked in by the dream car and a bargain price scam.


    Personally I cant see why anyone would not be very wary when their dream car is 10k cheaper than the going rate but I suppose greed is the defining factor that makes this scam so easy to pull off.
  • wealdroam
    wealdroam Posts: 19,180 Forumite
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    edited 4 May 2016 at 5:30PM
    Yoshush wrote: »
    Not gonna find help here obviously...
    Not really sure what magic you are expecting, but please do come back and let us know when you have found it.

    Seriously, you gave twenty thousand euros to a complete stranger with absolutely no way of contacting him ever again?

    Yoshush wrote: »
    ...i have his name and first name...
    Do you?
    Or do you have the name he chose to give you?
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