New phishing scam to be wary of whilst selling on here

[18ME]

Also received the exact same texts from Alan 07445 004165 to go to advancedhpi.co.uk but it seems the fee has gone up to £20 now.
Glad I googled it first.

[dunc69]

Alan is still at it. Same number.

He didn’t sound right to me, so did a google and this thread came up.

He has been told to ‘go away’!

Action Fraud aren’t exactly moving quickly on this one!

[bad company]

Check the vehicle’s check !!!

[Sophiet]

Well, I'm joining the club here. Alan contacted me about my car I have for sale, he seemed very legit and after several back and forth messages he asked me to complete an online check using advancedHPI.co.uk id never heard of the website before and noticed it took 2-3 hours for a report to come through so I found another website and completed an instant check which I paid £20 for. I forwarded it to his email address (same as others have said) and he replied saying id completed the wrong check and he wanted one from the website he mentioned. When I compared what my report covers Vs his I couldn't figure out what the difference was so I went to call him and the voicemail wasn't linked to a network and sounded like an American phone. Thought that was strange so I googled his number and we'll, here I am 🥲 very convincing! Be careful out there!

[Mr Tommo]

Yep, 'Alan' still scamming away from 07445 004165. Be aware people!

[mister_chase]

Another Alan instance here, listed my car 2 days ago.

Alans Mob number; 07445 004165 in case anyone searches it as a dodgy number

Wanted me to do a AHP check on his behlf.

Blocked him

Cheers
MC

[Raptor7000r]

I had similar happening but through facebook marketplace.

[essdaytwelve]

Thank heavens for this thread. After telling ‘Alan’ he needed to do his own HPi I was thinking about doing it for him, then something didn’t seem right, he said his mechanic required it WTF?

Googled his number and it brought me to this thread.

[5uPRA]

Alan has just contacted me too via text from 07445004165. Again another genuine enough start to the conversation, willing to drive up from Canterbury to the midlands to pay cash for the A45 I have listed which started to ring alarm bells. Then he asked me to click on the advancedhpi link. No thanks! Be careful out there.

[EnjyBenjy]

I just told 'Alan' to fk off after a day of texting and then discovering this thread.

[NFreeborn1]

Alan is still plying his unscrupulous trade. Almost had me today over text thread until I couldn’t find the “advanced HPI check” website he was after. Then I found this thread. Beware!

[Wayne95]

Another one

Sent him my AA report (already done) and he wasn't happy with it, still wanted the AHP one. Got suspicious and found this thread - Thanks PH

His number was [phone]

[soundwavebasher]

Yep 'Alan' is back on trying to scam... just had him onto me!

[luckyNot]

It seems Alan ..165 is keeping active. An SMS the day after I posted.

His latest advice, after some sensible SMS, is for me to use advancedhpi.co.uk.

Given his response time on the last long text Alan may be a programme or generative AI.

WELCOME TO THE MATRIX

[fido]

I have just had this as well. I strung them along for 2 weeks then told them car was sold.

[bentley0737]

14th march. 2024
I’m now in the Alan club!!! Same number, same website, same tt , Where is the gain???

[tertius]

Another variation to be aware of: Garner on 07893 944505 pushing autochecks.co.uk (note the plural) - similar half-baked website, some pages in Latin, which is surprising as the domain was only registered in October last year!

He has a very similar turn of phrase to Alan.

[mattman]

Another Alan member - only had the car listed a day and got the first text - googled the number and came straight to this thread.

Replied to his message asking to view telling him that it’s been sold - that seems to have stopped more messages
Thanks all

Edited by mattman on Friday 22 March 18:05

[Ian H63]

Been exchanging a few text messages regards a car I am selling. Right for the off it did not seem 100% but replied and today have the request to visit the Autochecks website. I never click on supplied links but Google frost and ended up here as well. The same usual number now blocked

[585bhp]

He’s back - James. [phone] I hope
More people Google this number. Scammer sending links!!