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Where's the rip-off?

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  • geo555
    geo555 Posts: 787 Forumite
    This is from Autotraders website.
    It will more likely be a couple of thousand extra, not £500.

    http://www.autotrader.co.uk/safety_and_security/vehicle_export_scam.jsp
    (".)
  • Bamber19
    Bamber19 Posts: 2,264 Forumite
    tigerboo wrote: »
    Light bulb moment!!!

    Ahaaa...

    So, they pay me (for E.G) £5k, and I get £4.5k...and pay £500 cash to shipper...later I'm stripped of whole £5k and I’m £500 and my car short...and believe it or not, but I consider myself to be quite clever...

    Wonder how many people get sucked in by this?

    Thanks for the enlightenment people.

    Some incredibly intelligent people will have fallen for this scam. It's not exactly the most obvious scam, many people will think "I've got the money from them so how can I lose?"

    Fortunately you can ask on here, google the situation or look on some other forums now so less and less people are getting caught out by it.
    Bought, not Brought
  • k8mac
    k8mac Posts: 2 Newbie
    Thanks so much everyone for writing about this. I was so close to getting in touch with the guy as I am real need of the money but it was my dad who said it looks like a scam. My dad called the number this morning and there is indeed someone who answers the phone and says he'll pay me £5k (when I only want £1,800 for my car) and the rest of the money is to go to the shipper. I was about to mail him and ask why he can't pay the shipping company myself when I typed his details into Google and up popped this thread.

    I can't believe now how close I was to going along with it - thinking emails would be proof of my positioning - didn't think about how the money I was paid coud be taken off me. I would have been, over £2k and my car down!
    THANKS EVERYONE
  • maninthestreet
    maninthestreet Posts: 16,127 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Post his phone number here - I'd like to have some (safe) fun baiting one of these con-artists.
    "You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"
  • tigerboo
    tigerboo Posts: 329 Forumite
    Post his phone number here - I'd like to have some (safe) fun baiting one of these con-artists.

    Feel free to contact Churchill...:D

    Customer Details:
    NAME: MR Churchill Jefferson
    TELEPHONE: +447045707030
    EMAIL: churchilljefferson13@gmail.com
    In a small town south of the border, where men are men and women need a sense of humour.
  • Or......

    He knows the car you're selling, then if you reply with name address etc, he knows where to find the car......

    Not even an exchange of money....and your cars GONE!!!!
  • markelock
    markelock Posts: 1,735 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I can't believe someone with such an honest name is so crooked.

    Both Churchill and Jefferson would be disgusted.

    So was he irish or dutch? or a n other?

    I hate these people, but it seems they do have a market.
    Remember the time he ate my goldfish? And you lied and said I never had goldfish. Then why did I have the bowl Bart? Why did I have the bowl?
  • k8mac
    k8mac Posts: 2 Newbie
    My dad said he thinks its to do with money laundering. Said he didn't sound dutch or irish but from east asia way. Who knows. I just know I'm staying well away now.
  • bigbloke45
    bigbloke45 Posts: 2,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Very good thread.

    My son was trying to buy a car via Autotrader and came across what appeared to be a fantastic bargain. He saw pictures of the vehicle, checked that it wasn't stolen etc - all OK. The "seller" wanted to take his money via ebay.

    Suffice to say it was all a scam. Thankfully my son is very computer literate and did a number of checks. In the end the "seller" gave up.

    The reason for the cheap price, the "seller" said she was a german nurse who wanted to go back home to give birth. Why would anyone volunteer such information?

    My son asked what I thought at the outset, as he was so very keen to buy the car. Simple, I said. If it appears to be too good to be true, then it almost certainly is!

    Why am I posting this? To remind people that buying is as dangerous as selling unless you are careful!

    It all comes back to the old balance between "Greed and Fear" that drives all business transactions.

    I was thinking that someone ought to concoct a "Greed/Fear" "swingometer" so that people could input their feelings to see what the meter says; too much greed (i.e. wishing it will be OK and that they really have got the bargain of their dreams etc.) says "Be very careful" against too much fear which prevents them from taking action. At least it might stop people acting in haste and repenting at leisure.

    And, oh yes, I've been there as well!!!
  • *MF*
    *MF* Posts: 3,113 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Spam - reported.
    If many little people, in many little places, do many little things,
    they can change the face of the world.

    - African proverb -
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