What is the scam?

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:33 pm

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

sidecar · Post by **sidecar** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:47 pm

It does sound dodgy to me!

unstable load · Post by **unstable load** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:01 am

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.

chodjinn · Post by **chodjinn** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:20 am

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

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:15 am

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

Eliot · Post by **Eliot** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:32 pm

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.

martyn123 · Post by **martyn123** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:06 am

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.

Quagmire · Post by **Quagmire** » Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:44 pm

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...