Anyone used or heard of the selleo trading group?

LindaRR

Last night I had numerous missed calls from the ‘seller’. Must have been desperate. The AberDeal site has now disappeared. :rotfl:

lightfair

It probably will not come as a surprise by now that the scammer is back with a new site. Now it's called

"AllContinent4U Trading Group"

(still no URL posting allowed for me...)

The domain was coincidentally just registered yesterday.

Of course there's also the obligatory youtube video as with the last few cases.

Needless to say: All this is fake and should by all means be avoided.

Just to be on the safe side: AllContinent4U Trading Group is not a real company. Don't do business with them; especially don't send them any money!

lightfair

Quick update: The scammer is back as

"Cellysto Trading Corporation"

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/75959132#Comment_75959132

lightfair

Another update: Now it's

"Vilmera Trading Corporation"

There's already a Youtube video (made by the scammer) but I haven't found the actual site yet.

So please watch out and please let me know if you come across it.

(I'm posting this here because I assume the scammer is still targeting the same geographic and demographic group. If that's not ok I'll naturally refrain from this.)

EdGasketTheSecond

This one?


https://www.mb-clubs.co.uk/review-forum/bussines-topic/threads/discussions/Anyone-heard-of-Vilmera-Trading-Corporation-Forum-mb-clubs.co.uk.html


They say its legit.

lightfair

Now, what might be the difference between

mb-clubs.co.uk

and

mbclub.co.uk

(Just call up both and see what happens).

Of course

https://www.mb-clubs.co.uk/review-forum/bussines-topic/threads/discussions/Anyone-heard-of-Vilmera-Trading-Corporation-Forum-mb-clubs.co.uk.html

says it's legit - that's the scammer himself. I've described the principle somewhere on page 1 of this thread - the scammer has registered a number of domain that spoof legit forums (but consist only of a single web page; there is no real forum behind them).

And yes, it's still the very same scammer as from the first posting.

EdGasketTheSecond

Wow thats very clever; as soon as you go to some other page it reverts to mbclub.co.uk.


Not that I would ever buy a car I hadn't seen and using a 'delivery service' but I guess if the price is right some people will gamble and lose. You'd have thought that the money could be tracked to its final destination and the culprit apprehended?

lightfair

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Wow thats very clever; as soon as you go to some other page it reverts to mbclub.co.uk.

Well, "clever" is not the word I probably would use; perhaps something more along the lines of "devious"...

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Not that I would ever buy a car I hadn't seen and using a 'delivery service' but I guess if the price is right some people will gamble and lose.

Yes, and sadly in this very thread also some victims had been posting their experience.
The fundamental problem here is that those "fake escrow" sites are explicitely built so that the victims feel safe (after all, that's what a real escrow service is also doing); so even if they have suspicions because the price is very low the victims might not get wise to it because the fake escrow/shipper site looks independent from the "seller".

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

You'd have thought that the money could be tracked to its final destination and the culprit apprehended?

That's the theory; in reality the scammer often make use of "money mules"; and usually the money is routed very quickly through various accounts abroad and finally might end up with a Western Union office where the clerk forgot to ask the receiver for the passport...

chunkytfg

So bearing in mind these days you can register a car you've bought online as long as you have the document number off the V5 has anyone tried to register the vehicle they were going to 'buy' as it seems you get sent a pic of the V5 as part of the pictures/advert?

lightfair

I'm not familiar with the procedure (I'm not from the UK) but keep in mind that those are usually older (and at the time legit) "for sale" ads that are getting copied and "re-used" in those scams.