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What is the scam?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:33 pm
by kiwicar
Hi all
OK someone enlighten me, we have put a car up for sale on Auto trader. . . after 2 weeks we have had 2 calls from different people offering the parkers guide trade in price for the car in cash sight unseen. . . but they want to come over tomorrow during the day is it casing the house, finding a car to steel by getting the address? ideas please. . .
best regards
Mike
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:47 pm
by sidecar
It does sound dodgy to me!
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:01 am
by unstable load
Arrange to meet at a public place like a local supermarket parking lot.
If he wants a test drive, he pays for it FIRST.
In cash. Cheques and cards can be stopped or reversed.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:20 am
by chodjinn
unstable load wrote:Arrange to meet at a public place like a local supermarket parking lot.
If he wants a test drive, he pays for it FIRST.
In cash. Cheques and cards can be stopped or reversed.
^^^Do this. They might not be dodgy at all, bu public place is defo the best idea! Plus, take a mate or two along
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:15 am
by kiwicar
Hi
Thanks, yes I would do the first meeting away from home, funnily enough when we said it had to be on saturday (not the next morning as they wanted) they lost interest and have not called back. I think they were wanting to see the house ready to come and burgle the place and sell what they have on the saturday/sunday car boot sales hence the timing.
Either that or they were planning on unloading a quantity of counterfeit cash on us.
Best regards
Mike
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:32 pm
by Eliot
Something fishy there alright.
Ask them to call from a landline number. Although having said that my voip number can present any local area code and i could be calling from timbuckto or even nigeria.
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:06 am
by martyn123
If ever you sell or buy a car, get the other person to stand with the car and take a photograph, and also note the reg number of the car they arrive in. If you deliver a car to them ask to use the tollet if the deal is done on the roadside to ensure that is their address and they are not just parked on a driveway of a empty house
Any genuine person would not be offended
Martyn.
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:44 pm
by Quagmire
Also - when they are test driving do not get out of the car until you have the keys in your hand!
A fellow landrover owner got done this way, halfway through the test drive the prospective buyer said he didnt need to drive it any further and proposed that the owner drive it home. The owner got out to swap seats and the guy drove off! full details on LR4x4.com somewhere. The guy had no car at the owners property as he "had been dropped off by his wife" or some such balls...