New phishing scam to be wary of whilst selling on here

[Toady1]

I was contacted about a car I have advertised. The texts came direct to my phone as I haven't hid my number. Their messages were typical of someone scamming, not relevant enough for a petrolhead to be asking, so straight away I was cautious. I told them to call me if they were genuine, surprisingly they did! But the foreign accent made it so hard to understand them that I suggested they continued via text.

After some more BS texts they asked me to do a check report. WTF is a check report anyway? I assumed they mean HPI check etc. so said yep, all clear. They then told me to go to a website called reportsverifier.co.uk. Then send them the report once done. Total scammer, I called them out without doing the report they asked and haven't heard back from them since!

The phone number this came from was [phone], (07897 069418) for any future searches people may do.

I see this is known to Pistonhead in the advice thread but it was new to me as I hadn't seen this thread first. -

Reg check/lookup/HPI report phishing attempt


We have been made aware of scammers asking sellers to provide a report from a phishing website called 'reports verifier'. Do not enter your data into any website link provided – if a genuine buyer is interested in running a HPI check on your car, then they can do this at their own expense through a reputable website.

Edited by Toady1 on Tuesday 10th October 14:20