used car scam

michellep45

we are looking for a new car and found a audi A4 which was a really good price advertised on motors.co.uk it gave a bedford address but when i rung the no. no such no.! so i emailed the seller to cut along story short the lady said she lived in italy and had inherrited a flat and the car in kenssington london she lowered the price again and said she had been messed about by people not showing up and she had come all the way from italy, so she wanted my husband to send a money gram to me then scan a copy of this and email it to her she would then know we had the funds and was for real the money gram would have cost us £122 to do!!! alarm bells started ringing i contacted motos.co.uk who informed me it was a scam and took the car off the site i have seen the car on other sites and have rung them and the fraud squad are looking in to it..
sometimes if it looks too good to be true it normally is so be carefull of anyone asking for money grams....:eek:

Blacksheep1979

loads of these about I had similar with someone in somewhere in eastern europe. When I said that collection would be no problem (instead of shipping the car) as I had a few 'security consultant' friends out there they went strangely quiet...

nshears

michellep45 wrote: »

we are looking for a new car and found a audi A4 which was a really good price advertised on motors.co.uk it gave a bedford address but when i rung the no. no such no.! so i emailed the seller to cut along story short the lady said she lived in italy and had inherrited a flat and the car in kenssington london she lowered the price again and said she had been messed about by people not showing up and she had come all the way from italy, so she wanted my husband to send a money gram to me then scan a copy of this and email it to her she would then know we had the funds and was for real the money gram would have cost us £122 to do!!! alarm bells started ringing i contacted motos.co.uk who informed me it was a scam and took the car off the site i have seen the car on other sites and have rung them and the fraud squad are looking in to it..
sometimes if it looks too good to be true it normally is so be carefull of anyone asking for money grams....:eek:

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