Vantage - potential sales fraud identified by AMOC forum

[LTP]

I came across a post on the AMOC forum by a member called JamesW (Jim Walker). I repeat it verbatim, below, with an additional contribution in the thread from a Barney.wj. I post this purely for information of PH. I have done no investigation into these posts and take them entirely at face value, accepting no responsibility.

JamesW said:

I recently came across a very sophisticated fraudulent website selling Aston Martin Vantages.
The fraudster claims to be a petrochemical employee, based in Norway.
They invite you to register with a shipping company, who hold your funds in an escrow account, pending your approval when taking delivery.
They are using photographs of cars with false UK plates.
I became very suspicious and uncovered this fraud.
The site they advertise on is called Auto24,which is based offshore.
I will be alerting Aston Martin,The Times and the authorities.
Please pass this message to all our our Aston Family.
These people are very persuasive.
BE CAREFUL.
Jim Walker.

Barney.wj said:

Really dodgy!!

[Calinours]

Auto24.ee are an Estonian online car re-seller who currently list over 3,500 cars. All the Astons (5) on sale are LHD, none have UK plates and all appear to have been photographed in the same location.

[bigandclever]

You'd have to have never been on the internet and have had a lobotomy to not recognise an offshore worker/shipping company/escrow fraud.

'very sophisticated'

[OddCat]

bigandclever said:

You'd have to have never been on the internet and have had a lobotomy to not recognise an offshore worker/shipping company/escrow fraud.

'very sophisticated'

'Very convoluted' perhaps. Yes, you'd have to be a complete idiot to fall for such nonsense. A fool and his / her / its / there / theys / thems money are soon parted.