Luxury Car Auction Scammer Arrested
from the what-was-he-thinking? dept
There are hundreds of stories of auction scammers out there who sell products and then never deliver the goods, but sometimes you read about people who are so blatant, you have to wonder what they're thinking. Generally speaking, if you're going to scam someone that way, you probably don't want to be easily findable afterwards. So why would you set up a specific company to sell luxury automobiles, including a set address, and then auction off cars that you never delivered? In some cases the guy did deliver a car - but it was often not as advertised. In other cases, he just didn't deliver the car at all. In one case they describe, the car listed (a $155,000 Aston Martin Vanquish) had actually been totaled in an accident and no longer existed. This, of course, brings up the folks on the other side of this deal. If you're going to spend $155,000 on a luxury car online, aren't you going want a little more proof that it's real before you dash off the check? Or, at least, aren't you going to look up the info on that car to find out that it's in the scrap yard somewhere?
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different scam
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Re: different scam
You want to tell your friend to be careful even with cheques that clear, as I think some cheques in those cases also appeared to have cleared, only to have come up bad later on, and the bank siezed the funds. Something shady like that.
Look up the story again, give it a read, and pass it on to your friend.
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Re: different scam
The Latest Email Scam
That article points out that you need to wait until well past the check clears, because it's often discovered to be fake even later.
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