I heard of a new scam today.....

[godskitchen]

I have not came across this one before so thought I would post here as a bit of a warning to others.

A friend of a friend is selling his car.

Its a BMW 335i.

Potential buyer turns up in a 330ci of similar age to the sellers car.

Looks over car and takes it for an accompanied test drive.

After looking over the paper work they tell seller they love the car but have another one to look at before they can buy.

All is well and off the buyer goes.

Its all very pleasant and seller goes back inside to his house.

A couple of hours pass and the seller gets uncomfortable about the viewing (for reasons I won't get into here, a few things didn't add up to him).

He happens to look at his 2 keys for the car and noticed something not right with one. Now all keys look identical from the same manufacture give or take. Maybe it was a mark or something that he didn't notice before.

He then goes out to the car and tries they keys. One does nothing. Its from a different car.

At some stage in the viewing process the keys were switched.

Seller gets his Mrs car and blocks his car in.

Ended up getting taking it to BMW and they disabled the other key. Or something to that effect.

More to the story but I'll leave it at that as it covers the basics.

[godskitchen]

Shaw Tarse said:

Not a new scam.

Maybe not but its new to me

[godskitchen]

ferrariF50lover said:

For entertainment value, you could tell the whole story...

Ha, really not worth it. The price of the car was never mentioned and they did not find any fault with it. This did not sit well with the seller. He expected something else.