Ad on Autotrader
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Not sure if this is a scam. Put an ad on Autotrader. Received a text message few days later with sender name "AutoTrader". Offering not the asking price, but a reasonable offer. You need to goto v2-autotrader.com and gbp-autotrader, enter purchase ID. Next step is to send UKASH 70£ via PayPoint. That's where I get suspicious.
Anyone has experienced something similar? Looks like a scam to me.
Anyone has experienced something similar? Looks like a scam to me.
yahya said:
Not sure if this is a scam. Put an ad on Autotrader. Received a text message few days later with sender name "AutoTrader". Offering not the asking price, but a reasonable offer. You need to goto v2-autotrader.com and gbp-autotrader, enter purchase ID. Next step is to send UKASH 70£ via PayPoint. That's where I get suspicious.
Anyone has experienced something similar? Looks like a scam to me.
You got that far before you became suspicious!Anyone has experienced something similar? Looks like a scam to me.
Edited by stuartmmcfc on Sunday 8th September 14:17
Anybody asking you to send money is a scammer.
Autotrader is a crock when it comes to filtering out scammers. How many of these have you had?
"I want to buy car, what is it's condition and final price"
despite all of that being in your advert.
So i replied "£20,000 cash mate", even though the car was up for £7k, which elicits the response....
"I work offshore, and have no communication by phone. I also can only pay by paypal, here is the link if you don't have it. I will send payment, then my collection service will get the car."
to which I reply that "the collection service guy can accept your paypal payment and bring the cash.."
after which it goes quiet.
Have half a dozen of them from english sounding email names such as "BillJones@scammer.com" all using the same script style.
I had a far better experience using PH classifieds.
Autotrader is a crock when it comes to filtering out scammers. How many of these have you had?
"I want to buy car, what is it's condition and final price"
despite all of that being in your advert.
So i replied "£20,000 cash mate", even though the car was up for £7k, which elicits the response....
"I work offshore, and have no communication by phone. I also can only pay by paypal, here is the link if you don't have it. I will send payment, then my collection service will get the car."
to which I reply that "the collection service guy can accept your paypal payment and bring the cash.."
after which it goes quiet.
Have half a dozen of them from english sounding email names such as "BillJones@scammer.com" all using the same script style.
I had a far better experience using PH classifieds.
yahya said:
It all looked legit until they asked for 70£ deposit. They provide London landline and postcode in their contact us page.
Thanks for all the replies.
I have a London registered business address, complete with a phone divert service.Thanks for all the replies.
If I chose to I could send thousands of e-mails a day asking for £70, using that business details.
I imagine it would get closed down in short order, after which I do exactly the same thing from a different address.
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