Scammers in the classifieds?
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List a car for sale today, already had 3 enquiries, which given its limited audience is somewhat of a surprised.
First guy asked a couple of question that were cover in the advert, ok, might have skimmed it. Then has gone on to payment, and now wants me to provide a report from vehiclereports.com…
Sorry, I don’t think so, spydey senses are going off now.
First guy asked a couple of question that were cover in the advert, ok, might have skimmed it. Then has gone on to payment, and now wants me to provide a report from vehiclereports.com…
Sorry, I don’t think so, spydey senses are going off now.
48 hours online. 7 scammers.
I have now started to troll them.
The first one didn’t go well, I told ‘her’ I lived in Golden Shower, she then asked for a scam report, I told I didn’t have internet access in Golden Shower because of all the piss. She didn’t respond… rude!
The latest one has just come back with some long winded response about cheques and shipping. I have responded by asking him if he is comfortable that the rear seats have been removed to enable me to enjoy my other passion of anal buggery, as a result the is a lot of human baby gravy in the rear of the car.
I have now started to troll them.
The first one didn’t go well, I told ‘her’ I lived in Golden Shower, she then asked for a scam report, I told I didn’t have internet access in Golden Shower because of all the piss. She didn’t respond… rude!
The latest one has just come back with some long winded response about cheques and shipping. I have responded by asking him if he is comfortable that the rear seats have been removed to enable me to enjoy my other passion of anal buggery, as a result the is a lot of human baby gravy in the rear of the car.
Edited by Megaflow on Thursday 27th June 09:53
If car sales sites wanted to stop this sort of spearphishing they'd require buyers put money in escrow for each specific car before giving out the seller contact details, and they'd handle that initial enquiry through their own platform.
This sort of scammer would just move on to facebay/fleabook/bumtree/whatever that didn't screen in that way.
The sad truth is that there's no real incentive for ad sites to stop scamming because the seller is paying for the ads whatever happens.
This sort of scammer would just move on to facebay/fleabook/bumtree/whatever that didn't screen in that way.
The sad truth is that there's no real incentive for ad sites to stop scamming because the seller is paying for the ads whatever happens.
CraigyMc said:
If car sales sites wanted to stop this sort of spearphishing they'd require buyers put money in escrow for each specific car before giving out the seller contact details, and they'd handle that initial enquiry through their own platform.
This sort of scammer would just move on to facebay/fleabook/bumtree/whatever that didn't screen in that way.
The sad truth is that there's no real incentive for ad sites to stop scamming because the seller is paying for the ads whatever happens.
What an absolutely insane idea! How to kill a platform......This sort of scammer would just move on to facebay/fleabook/bumtree/whatever that didn't screen in that way.
The sad truth is that there's no real incentive for ad sites to stop scamming because the seller is paying for the ads whatever happens.
PoorCarCollector said:
CraigyMc said:
If car sales sites wanted to stop this sort of spearphishing they'd require buyers put money in escrow for each specific car before giving out the seller contact details, and they'd handle that initial enquiry through their own platform.
This sort of scammer would just move on to facebay/fleabook/bumtree/whatever that didn't screen in that way.
The sad truth is that there's no real incentive for ad sites to stop scamming because the seller is paying for the ads whatever happens.
What an absolutely insane idea! How to kill a platform......This sort of scammer would just move on to facebay/fleabook/bumtree/whatever that didn't screen in that way.
The sad truth is that there's no real incentive for ad sites to stop scamming because the seller is paying for the ads whatever happens.
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