buying a car online

sweetsand

Biggus_Dickus said:

parking_question_chap said:

There is a 2018 BMW i8 on there for £38k which is about £20k less that it should be. Do people really fall for scams like this?

Would anyone be taken in by an unsophisticated and obvious scam website such as the one being discussed on this thread?...who knows.

But sadly some people do get taken in by ‘used car’ scammers.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-8663493/Dont-let-car-sale-scammers-drive-cash.html

 

 

Hi

Indeed they do and this is why nasty people like this try out scams like this. The phone calls are the worse as they pick off the vulnerable. We moved into our current, detached victorian home a while ago and we still get calls for the previous owners on our landline.  Websites, even well educated people can fall prey to something like this and they may loose everything. 
It's not just sites like this you need to be aware of, EG people selling door to door rugs are dangerous people as I recall from years ago when I worked for social services on on my clients in the England had a young lady call and the convo went
something like this when the young lady knocked on my clients door.
"hello, how are you..sunny day,  ??? down the road asked me to call on you.... I've got some great rugs and low prices and have the last few so need to sell them.." The young woman enters home, the client mentions someone name of bloke down the road young lady agrees - then presure sells making my client feel guilty as she may have wasted the young lades tie - long story short client paid for a rubbish rug worth 20 quid at most taken to bank and paid 400  in order and I quote my client "just to get rid of her."  Clent said she felt foolish should have rang family/etc - I made sure she reported it to cops - it was years ago before the advent of many having cctv outside their homes.

So it happens and those that feel it may never happen to them, it may or may not but most likley to happen to someone vulnerable you know.

Be aware, be safe

HTH

onlyfoolsandparking

Flying carpets are worse, very dangerous imo so be aware of them too.
ATB

facade

"Nottingham Knockers" is the name for the scammers who go door to door.

I've had the "disabled war-wounded ex-serviceman paying his way through college" round here.

They go to B&M and buy the cheap cleaning cloths/feather dusters etc for 50 or 99p then try and sell them for £5 or £10.

The other one to watch for is the "Promotional Prize Draw" who want your 'phone number to tell you how much you have won, but actually phone to get you to agree to have the salesman for that expensive miracle roof paint (that falls off straight away- a house up the road got caught).

sweetsand

facade said:

"Nottingham Knockers" is the name for the scammers who go door to door.

I've had the "disabled war-wounded ex-serviceman paying his way through college" round here.

They go to B&M and buy the cheap cleaning cloths/feather dusters etc for 50 or 99p then try and sell them for £5 or £10.

The other one to watch for is the "Promotional Prize Draw" who want your 'phone number to tell you how much you have won, but actually phone to get you to agree to have the salesman for that expensive miracle roof paint (that falls off straight away- a house up the road got caught).

Well I never, "nottinham kncokers."  The scam I posted about here was proper fraud. It left my client devastated, humiliated, embarrassed. I tired to put her mind at rest and said she was lucky as she was not cleared out and the people that did that to her was vile paprasites that would sell their family,

Re the roof pain - we get the drives and the roofers around our roads, "i was working down the road, passing noticed your roof 
needed to be looked at. Thankfully since we've had the eltric gates we keep these parasites on the other side of the gates. When the press the buzzer, very rarely may I hastend to add, autmated message states something like not the exact words ' your visted has been documented via cctv, please leave your details and we will be in touch soon as we are busy right now.' Does the trick.
These types are prized crooks that steal every penny given the chance from the vulnerable and then move on to another town.

sweetsand

onlyfoolsandparking said:

Flying carpets are worse, very dangerous imo so be aware of them too.
ATB

Sorry, was that supposed to be a poor joke of the back of vulnerable people being defrauded or did I misunderstand you post?
FYI, as I stated in my post, the rug that was sold to this vulnerable client of mine was worth 20 quid at bet and they were cheated out of 400 pounds and my client was devastated, 
Whether the crime is online as per this thread or phone or person to person it is still a crime/fraud, worse as people life savings can be stolen and heart break the victim.
Thanks to site like MSE, etc, people/posters can share their knowledge and pass it on to others to alert them to what is going on.
Thanks,

Scrapit

sweetsand said:

onlyfoolsandparking said:

Flying carpets are worse, very dangerous imo so be aware of them too.
ATB

Thanks to site like MSE, etc, people/posters can share their knowledge and pass it on to others to alert them to what is going on.
Thanks,

But what is it you are doing?