Car Sale Scams

[emts]

So I'm shopping around for a daily/tow car.

using one of the big au car sales websites.

I am truely amazed the number of fake ads on there.

ie ones where you express interest and the car is in "storage" and you need to pay the full amount or a deposit prior to the car being released for you with a 15 day cool off period.

I'd love to know the number of people who get scammed by this, hell I even emailed the last one about this..he didn't seem to want to talk to me after that tho.

oh well

[Birds]

Should need a drivers licence or an ABN to place a car for sale on there IMO.

[Deanc]

yeah there was one like that for a silver R32 GTST about a month ago

on car sales as well, it was crazy what they/He wanted to do for you to buy the car.

the guy said the car was in Melbourne at the docklands then a day later

he emailed me and said you have to put the full amount in some account. of $6500

then had to fly up to Darwin to have a look at the car. in the space of a day the car

went from Melbourne to Darwin and the guy was in england somewhere, and he

wanted to meet up with hes brother.

then told the guy to get f**ked and haven't heard from him since then the next

day the add for the car was off the site lol.

i hate people that do that shit, you just have to be careful with everything that

you wanna buy.

[funkymonkey]

yeah there was one like that for a silver R32 GTST about a month ago

on car sales as well, it was crazy what they/He wanted to do for you to buy the car.

the guy said the car was in Melbourne at the docklands then a day later

he emailed me and said you have to put the full amount in some account. of $6500

then had to fly up to Darwin to have a look at the car. in the space of a day the car

went from Melbourne to Darwin and the guy was in england somewhere, and he

wanted to meet up with hes brother.

then told the guy to get f**ked and haven't heard from him since then the next

day the add for the car was off the site lol.

i hate people that do that shit, you just have to be careful with everything that

you wanna buy.

hey I've got this locked bank account in nigeria that you might want a share of. PM me your passport number and bank details and we'll get mad riches.

[Downforce]

any nigerian scams should be forwarded to [email protected]

I chuckle every time I see a new one pop up on firesport http://firesport.com.au/apple-iphone-3g-s-...e--ad149257.htm

[Rekin]

They talked about the car sale scams on the AM dial with derryn hinch today. (ive still got my jap headunit and AM is all i can listen to )

[funkymonkey]

derryn hinch

that right there is probably 90% of the reason why new import owners upgrade their stereos as soon as they get their car.

[MRSAMO]

They talked about the car sale scams on the AM dial with derryn hinch today. (ive still got my jap headunit and AM is all i can listen to )

Haha I had to laugh at this.

[Birds]

They talked about the car sale scams on the AM dial with derryn hinch today. (ive still got my jap headunit and AM is all i can listen to )

Shame, shame, shame Patrick. Shame on you.

[Rekin]

Shame, shame, shame Patrick. Shame on you.

performance > ICE

headunit on the bottom of my to-do list haha

[Priestley]

Its just as bad trying to sell cars on those websites. I listed an Aristo last year and didn't get one contact that wasn't a scam.

My favourite one went something like: "I am a Christian minister currently in Africa on a mission to help people struck down by illness...." and so on.

I just use ebay now. You get a large number of time wasters, but you do get genuine interest in the car from some people.

[funkymonkey]

Shame, shame, shame Patrick. Shame on you.

you know you wanna max out your credit card and buy a $1500 headunit.