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There are alot of scams on the net, from people advertising cars that are not theirs. Most these scams come from Europe, so DO NOT TRANSFER ANY MONEY TILL OWNERSHIP IS PROVEN. The Australian authorities are not interested in chasing up such matters. They give some story of going overseas and taking their car there only to find that they can't rego it, because it is too costly to comply or meet emisions, so they need to send it back to Australia at a really cheap price, rather than crushing it.
Ask for the following items and chase them up
- VIN number
- Previous Rego number, when in Australia
- Previous address where the car was registered to
- Updated photos with a a4 page stating current date and a sentance of your creation.
- Any other relavent info.
My mate was almost con'ed till i told him to do the above and wrote the letter to the seller. The guy replied with BS, saying that Ebay has recommend not to give any paper work till money was transfered, etc. Also mentioned that his money was safe as ebay would refund it if the car didn't show up, etc. We then reported it to ebay, the ad was removed and the user baned.
If it is too cheap to be true, then it isn't true