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yeh these scams where going around bikesales ages ago for a while, pretty easy to detect all the guys a netrider could sniff em out in a second and posted them.

some of them would involve people in the same country but would use PayPal because they have buyer protection, but the protection only covers upto $4000 so the scammer would pocket the amount and Paypal would give u $4000 and "try" to find the scammer.

guess these days the safest way to pay is cash

y'all need to hide your kids, hide your wife and hide you husband, cause they scamming everyone around here!

Even "legitimate" sellers on ebay can be a form of scam somtimes, I recall an orange Cefiro that kept being sold on there, even from the pics it was pretty obvious it was unregisterable, at least in the southern states (came from QLD lol), no one ever seemed to mention that in the ads of course!

TBH though looking at how low those prices are would make me not even bother enquiring about those cars since I would already be assuming that they were pieces of shit or broken/about to break in some way.

theres so many of these geting around these days. its just insane.... and i bet there is people falling for it or they wouldnt do it. so many people geting riped right off. dont buy any cars or bikes unless you can touch it before you hand them the coin.....

That's my point Baron, When I reported it to carsales and had the ad pulled then started getting "carsales" emails etc I thought wow that is some effort to go to and to the untrained eye some of those emails might look legit.

Interesting - so do you think the trigger for sending the "its legitimate...signed carsales" email is when the ad gets pulled? If so, thats clever.

You and I can see that it's obviously fake, not everybody can pick it so I'm sharing it around so that perhaps others can be better prepared. Don't shoot the messenger :)

Indeed, your message is a valuable service to the community! The more education on the tricks scammers use the less effective they are.

Interesting - so do you think the trigger for sending the "its legitimate...signed carsales" email is when the ad gets pulled? If so, thats clever.

Yep. I'd say when the ad gets pulled he gets an email saying so, he then sends an email to anyone who he has already received an enquiry from with his dodgy email saying the vehicle and the seller are all cleared by carsales.

Dodge-a-rific.

I lol'd

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:12:12 +1100

Subject: XR6

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Hi Jas,

I didn't get your email til after work by which time the banks were closed sorry.

I checked your confirmed account details and I'd made a mistake when I was at the bank, woops!

I have spoken to my insurance company about what it may cost to insure the vehicle and they asked me to confirm if the car can go more than 88mph. A friend of mine had a car that could do over 88mph and he has some sort of accident - We haven't heard from him since :)

Cheers

Dan

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Jason Derrington <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Dan,

No, only the turbo engine can go over 88 mph.

Cheers,

Jas

That's my point Baron, When I reported it to carsales and had the ad pulled then started getting "carsales" emails etc I thought wow that is some effort to go to and to the untrained eye some of those emails might look legit. You and I can see that it's obviously fake, not everybody can pick it so I'm sharing it around so that perhaps others can be better prepared. Don't shoot the messenger :D

If there weren't people who fell for this then ACA would run out of stories to run pretty quickly.

Just trying to spread the word.

yeah you are right, and it is good to share this type of stuff. hopefully it will save at least one person from getting scammed by these clowns. very sad when people trust someone only to get shafted. :(

read the invoice carefully and make payment to the ebay"

since when do emails from ebay sound like they are written by a nigerian ESL student?

hahahaha gold!!

yeh i had some doucher trying to scam me when i had my M3 on carsales

emails me saying he'll send me payment via DD and for me to drop the car off at a transport company

yeh no worries

google'd his email and all these links popped up, so replied, hey mate fyi <insert link here>

ActionDan keep stringing him along, this is great

Edited by domino_z

wouldnt carsales have some way of knowing that this guy is overseas ?? and advertising a car in aus ? so who is the real owner and does he know his car is for sale ? i think carsales could easily prevent things like this from happening if they wanted ...

Edited by bucharest

Even though buyers need to exercise Caveat Emptor when buying cars, Carsales should definately have a duty of care to ensure that the vendor is the actual owner of the car. I am still waiting on them to provide me with a response and the last time i checked (2days ago) the ad was still up.

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