Website with false address

ballyblack

contact action fraud & report on line
nothing to do with HRMC as the scammer could be anywhere in the world

https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/

AndyPix

Do people answer when the number is called ?

What do they say when confronted about this ?

ballyblack

landline is unavailable. mobile is diverted to answering service.

Probably want to be contacted by email and start scamming from there

If you have a need for the acquisition of agricultural machinery, please contact us and we will help you make the best choice.

classic scamming using google translate?

J_B

ballyblack said:

Probably want to be contacted by email and start scamming from there

I emailed yesterday saying I was interested in the Massey Ferguson, but not had a reply.

I wonder if their harvest is safely gathered in and they will move on to another scam?

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ballyblack

rang them again its mobile on a uk o2 ringing out foreign ring tone to answering service

. Probably designed to get an overseas customer to bite and ship non existing machinery, common scam

Mistral001

Contact Trading Standards.  

ballyblack

Cant see Trading standards being of any use. This website is entirely fictitious with the authors anywhere in the world!

J_B

ballyblack said:

rang them again its mobile on a uk o2 ringing out foreign ring tone to answering service
. Probably designed to get an overseas customer to bite and ship non existing machinery, common scam

I have a 'non-uk' PAYG phone. I used it to text them today asking if they'd had my email, but they didn't reply. I also phoned from the same phone, but no answer.

I spoke to the farm owner today, who told me that they'd had a visitor wanting to look at a machine that his brother in Poland had seen on the website!

Mrs Farmer tells me that action-fraud won't take the website down, which is rather bizarre.

Mistral001

J_B said:

ballyblack said:

rang them again its mobile on a uk o2 ringing out foreign ring tone to answering service
. Probably designed to get an overseas customer to bite and ship non existing machinery, common scam

I have a 'non-uk' PAYG phone. I used it to text them today asking if they'd had my email, but they didn't reply. I also phoned from the same phone, but no answer.

I spoke to the farm owner today, who told me that they'd had a visitor wanting to look at a machine that his brother in Poland had seen on the website!

Mrs Farmer tells me that action-fraud won't take the website down, which is rather bizarre.

The bar for fraud is surprisingly high.  For example simply being dishonest is often not enough for fraud to have been committed.   The farmer might have a case for claiming damages against the website owner, but even there what damages has he sustained other than spending a few minutes with a caller?  

J_B

Mistral001 said:

The bar for fraud is surprisingly high.  For example simply being dishonest is often not enough for fraud to have been committed.  

But, wouldn't you have thought that between go-daddy and action-fraud they might have wanted to close the website down?

Mistral001 said:

The farmer might have a case for claiming damages against the website owner, but even there what damages has he sustained other than spending a few minutes with a caller?  

No 'damages' really, but dealing with the caller, as well as two other digital enquiries.

Dealing with VAT office, HMRC, Bank to explain the situation so that their 'credit file' (*) isn't compromised, etc

* = I know businesses don't have a credit file, but you get my point.