Fake Britain - Fake Cars

[Drederick Tatum]

Quite good would recommend for most non petrol heads, you always think what sort of mug would fall for a scam like that, the answer plenty!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rgh6s/Fake...

[LukeBird]

Saw this earlier... that woman who 'bought' the Qashqai... Are people like that allowed out on their own? I see she's allowed to breed as well, scary stuff!

[Jonboy_t]

It's 45 minutes long, any chance of some sort of summary?!!

[leeeeshad]

man buys cloned van, woman falls for obvious im in spain put 5k in a secure account and i'll give you the car scam.

and ditchfinders that are copys of good tyres

Edited by leeeeshad on Wednesday 10th March 21:58

Edited by leeeeshad on Wednesday 10th March 22:00

[TheEnd]

i thought it might be someone sticking different badges on a car, or those Chinese lookalike cars...

[Tony427]

Woman trying to sell a camper van gets scammed by a buyer / seller matching service. Feels ripped off to tune of £80 and is left with van until the next holiday season.

Decides to advertsie van and gets approached by another buyer/ seller matching scam artist.

"Oh no" she says " I was scammed before by a company like you" she said.

" We're not like that" says scammer who then relieves woman of another £80.

Some people should not be allowed out by themselves.

Cheers,

Tony

[Flanders.]

That Tyre test was quite good.

[anonymous-user]

I did like the ending bit of the ditchfinder test when they mentioned that the car with the ditchfinders was still travelling 31MPH while the car with the Contis had stopped. TheN comes the "If you hit a pedestrian at 31, the survival rate is 29%"... Exactly what thAT has to do with a braking test from MOTORWAY speeds I do not know...

And do people REALLY buy tyres because they LOOK similar? Price I can understand, I do not agree but I certainly understand, but looks?!

Edited by Simps on Thursday 11th March 19:18

[Shaw Tarse]

I missed this ealier, will skim through it on iPlayer.

[pits]

leeeeshad said:

man buys cloned van, woman falls for obvious im in spain put 5k in a secure account and i'll give you the car scam.

and ditchfinders that are copys of good tyres

ETA:Presented by that bald who is like a fat bald Quentin Wilson, with the speach style of that fat Mike Brewer, topped off with the smarmy attitude of that wker that was on police camera action but got fired for being a , I mean drink driving, Alastair Stewart

Edited by leeeeshad on Wednesday 10th March 21:58

Edited by leeeeshad on Wednesday 10th March 22:00

EFA!!!

[dugt]

Anyone else thought the rpesenters head was brown, but his neck was white?

anyway, why did they call it fake cars? the cars wernt fake, that was a genuine bmw x5 he was standing next to, it was just the vins which were changed.

and some of those people did seem quite stupid.

[Or888t]

watched it earlyer, worth a watch, ty for the link

[Fidgits]

Simps said:

I did like the ending bit of the ditchfinder test when they mentioned that the car with the ditchfinders was still travelling 31MPH while the car with the Contis had stopped. They comes the "If you hit a pedestrian at 31, the survival rate is 29%"... Exactly what the has to do with a braking test from MOTORWAY speeds I do not know...

And do people REALLY buy tyres because they LOOK similar? Price I can understand, I do not agree but I certainly understand, but looks?!

dont you know pedestrians have the right of way on the motorway!!!

i mean, wont someone think of the children

[Craphouserat]

Had to stop watching when the woman bought the bargain from Spain...ffs. The presenter always annoyed me with his condescending,patronising tone - but now I see why he talks like he's talking to a 5 year old, there are a lot of idiots out there.

[dugt]

If i heard corectly, the government/dvla lost or ahd stolen a millions or so blank v5s.

Why didn't they just cut thier losses and change the colour of all the documents, making the stolen ones worthless.

[Kevin VRs]

dugt said:

If i heard corectly, the government/dvla lost or ahd stolen a millions or so blank v5s.

Why didn't they just cut thier losses and change the colour of all the documents, making the stolen ones worthless.

Because that would only apply to new ones, not existing ones.

[bazking69]

It happens because we live in a world full of gullible and stupid people who refuse to be cautious of scams if they think are getting a deal that is too good to be true...

[Drederick Tatum]

The main reason I put this up is so it can be forwarded to those gullible and stupid people we all know and meet in our daily lifes that really have no idea stuff like this is going on.

We are on PH which is a great forum for highlighting scams like these

[Chris71]

TheEnd said:

i thought it might be someone sticking different badges on a car, or those Chinese lookalike cars...

I assumed it was going to be Bentley 300Cs and BMW M316s.

[Zeek]

I especially like that the Golf they used for the brake/tyre tests was a Hertz rental car