autotrader - scams ?

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:12 pm

From how I understand it. The scammer says he's going to send more than the asking price i.e. inc. shipping of a few hundred. He want you to pay the cheque into your bank and when cleared, pay him, or third party, say shipper, the difference.

All looks good and you pay the money to whoever. A few weeks pass by and your bank discovers that the Nigerian, or whatever, cheque/money order is a dud and THEN refunds themselves from your account. Bingo, you've been done.

Recentle however, the law has changed and the bank has to honour the transaction whether they're out of pocket or not. Can't remember what the new time limit is but it's now days rather than months.

If the scam's in your favour, go for it. But make sure that the above is 100% first

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:15 pm

Good points Gerry (and everyone else) - will dig around.

ScoobieWRX · Post by **ScoobieWRX** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:16 pm

ValoSunnyGti wrote:I say go with ScoobieWRX and insist on cash,

Even with Direct bank transfer they can still get it back i believe as they can claim fraud (dont quote me on that though things have changed since i worked in a bank)

Highly unlikely they would want to claim the money back on a bank transfer as that then identifies them, making them easier to nab!!
The idea with the bankers draft scam is complete anonimity on their part which makes them just about impossible to trace!!

Dodgy bankers draft is a no brainer from their point of view

kamikaze · Post by **kamikaze** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:20 pm

andycaca wrote:welcome to 411eater

He He

I had a vlad going for 4 months

When I had my GTO up for sale I had the usual scam attempts-took cash in the end,as mentioned before even bankers drafts acan be dodgy

ValoSunnyGti · Post by **ValoSunnyGti** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:23 pm

if you want Dunc i can have a word with my mother tonight see if she knows about the ruling that Gerry is on about, she has been in the bank all her life so will probably know a bit about it

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:27 pm

ValoSunnyGti wrote:if you want Dunc i can have a word with my mother tonight see if she knows about the ruling that Gerry is on about, she has been in the bank all her life so will probably know a bit about it

yes please :thumb:

ValoSunnyGti · Post by **ValoSunnyGti** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:33 pm

Ok will do. I will probably just get her to make a post on here, Need to put up a picture of her car any way

Post by **Ben** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:30 pm

Gerry is right - my mate steve played along with one of these - he paid the cheque into a spare account - he was credited .. and low and behold after a couple of weeks the cheque was discovered to be fraudalent and the funds removed.

Thus you send you shiny motorcar thinking you've got money in the bank - by the time it bounces your car is on it's way and you've lost out.

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:55 pm

Dunk, as you say it is a Punto. You should have no problem selling it as it is a clean one.
Just ignore all the dodgy enquiries from the scammers and a legit buyer will be along soon. Not worth the hassle.
I put a wanted post on Pistonheads the other day and within a day someone sent a mail saying that they had exactly what i wanted. The mail read in such a way that it was obviouly a standard formatted reply to wanted posts.

pigme1000000 · Post by **pigme1000000** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:31 pm

ive noticed that the autotrader has gone right down hill and pistionheads seems to be the one, most people go on ,mostly i think coz it is free,but then pistonheads doesnt have a published magazine!