This is a scam right?

[vdp1]

My mate wants a new car and we came across this

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

He quite likes it and its nice and cheap plus no @gmail.com plastered all over it, howerver clicking the visit website gets you this

http://www.canveyislandcarriageco.co.uk/

How does that work then?

[marshalla]

I don't see anything wrong there (apart from a bad choice of link from the ad. to the website which does list that car).

[dave87]

http://www.canveyislandcarriageco.co.uk/used-cars/...


Check the images on any of the stock listed - all saying private sale, email me...etc.


Clearly a scam... though the company may be innocent and have had their website hacked.

[marshalla]

dave87 said:

http://www.canveyislandcarriageco.co.uk/used-cars/...


Check the images on any of the stock listed - all saying private sale, email me...etc.


Clearly a scam... though the company may be innocent and have had their website hacked.

Not all of the images are like that though.

[Steffan]

I have a rule for internet awareness of scams. Never failed yet.

If it looks too good to be true, it is too good to be true.

There are an increasing number of scammers. Easy money presumably.

Looks like a scammy, scam scam scam to me.

I would avoid.

[essexplumber]

I'm pretty sure that this used to be the Big Blue Car Company of Canvey Island Essex. If so I wouldn't buy a dust cap from them.

My brother in law bought a Cooper S from the BBCC and the RAC guy who inspected the car after the various faults became apparent said it was one the worst bodge ups of crash damage he had ever seen.

Every loan car (3 in total) the BBCC gave my Bro in law broke down.

[MartyPubes]

'Carriage Company' has 'dodgy ' written all over it.

[marshalla]

A quick dig into it - the suspect images are coming from a third party image site - that's the one that's probably been hacked.

[BE57 TOY]

It's cheap cause it's a 6 year old French nail.

Why would it be a scam?

The website is perfectly plausible and you can go and visit them tomorrow to look around the car.

I don't get it?

[jas xjr]

essexplumber said:

I'm pretty sure that this used to be the Big Blue Car Company of Canvey Island Essex. If so I wouldn't buy a dust cap from them.

My brother in law bought a Cooper S from the BBCC and the RSPCA guy who inspected the car after the various faults became apparent said it was one the worst bodge ups of crash damage he had ever seen.

Every loan car (3 in total) the BBCC gave my Bro in law broke down.

RSPCA ? Were all the cars dogs ?

[essexplumber]

jas xjr said:

essexplumber said:

I'm pretty sure that this used to be the Big Blue Car Company of Canvey Island Essex. If so I wouldn't buy a dust cap from them.

My brother in law bought a Cooper S from the BBCC and the RSPCA guy who inspected the car after the various faults became apparent said it was one the worst bodge ups of crash damage he had ever seen.

Every loan car (3 in total) the BBCC gave my Bro in law broke down.

RSPCA ? Were all the cars dogs ?

bd, got in before the edit

[marshalla]

BE57 TOY said:

It's cheap cause it's a 6 year old French nail.

Why would it be a scam?

The website is perfectly plausible and you can go and visit them tomorrow to look around the car.

I don't get it?

As mentioned above, a lot of the images on the site now have text overlays to say that they are for private sales only, and to use a hotmail email address to make contact. Site security has been breached (albeit through a third party image hosting service).

Given that there's a phone number and a real physical location though, I would say that risk is minimal as long as you don't use email contact.

[vdp1]

dave87 said:

http://www.canveyislandcarriageco.co.uk/used-cars/...


Check the images on any of the stock listed - all saying private sale, email me...etc.


Clearly a scam... though the company may be innocent and have had their website hacked.

Yea thats what I saw but how are those images on the web site if its a genuine company, he does seem to have an awful lot of cars though.

Or if its a blag website some of the cars seem genuine, wont everyone just ring the number anyway.

[marshalla]

vdp1 said:

Or if its a blag website some of the cars seem genuine, wont everyone just ring the number anyway.

Ermmm - No. Many will email.

P.T. Barnum was an optimist.

[vdp1]

BE57 TOY said:

It's cheap cause it's a 6 year old French nail.

Why would it be a scam?

The website is perfectly plausible and you can go and visit them tomorrow to look around the car.

I don't get it?

Its not because I think that particular car is a scam because its too good to be true, its just not a bad price it could well be a genuine car Its just when you click on the dealer site its scam city.

[vdp1]

Car in question has now dissapeared from autotrader and the website seems to be back to normal with no details of the car.

[Steffan]

vdp1 said:

Car in question has now dissapeared from autotrader and the website seems to be back to normal with no details of the car.

Not really surprising. Doubtless the concerns go to the scammers.