Something fishy

Paddy_B

Came across this nice little 1 series BMW. It was only 2 years old and at a silly price, looked like a decimal point missing possibly.
I clicked in to see what else the seller had up and found an array of almost new cars for ridiculous prices!
http://cars.donedeal.ie/find/all/for-sale/Ireland/?filters%5BuserId%5D=1306792

bazz26

The stupidly low prices and seller wants you to contact them by email are the dead giveaway they are scams.

neckedit

Paddy_B wrote:

Came across this nice little 1 series BMW. It was only 2 years old and at a silly price, looked like a decimal point missing possibly. I clicked in to see what else the seller had up and found an array of almost new cars for ridiculous prices!

he gets about a bit too.....Kerry to Donegall via tyrone

john the one

How would such a scam go?

Hal1

Report him.

bazz26

The cars normally don't exist and they just stole the photos or adverts from somewhere else. It also usually involves some BS story about them working in the army and the car is abroad with them. They normally ask you to pay shipping or freight costs up front using either Western Union or PayPal, you then never hear from them again.

colm_mcm

Ads are gone now anyway.

Kintarō Hattori

bazz26 wrote: »

The cars normally don't exist and they just stole the photos or adverts from somewhere else. It also usually involves some BS story about them working in the army and the car is abroad with them. They normally ask you to pay shipping or freight costs up front using either Western Union or PayPal, you then never hear from them again.

Who honestly would be gullible enough to fall for that?

MuppetCheck

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Who honestly would be gullible enough to fall for that?

It only takes one!

bazz26

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Who honestly would be gullible enough to fall for that?

You would be surprised how dumb people are when it comes to seeking out that great bargain. If they were not getting any fools biting then they would have given up ages ago but these scams are still out there. It's a bit like getting an email about wining the Spanish lottery even when you didn't even buy a ticket for it.

Kintarō Hattori

MuppetCheck wrote: »

It only takes one!

bazz26 wrote: »

You would be surprised how dumb people are when it comes to seeking out that great bargain. If they were not getting any fools biting then they would have given up ages ago but these scams are still out there. It's a bit like getting an email about wining the Spanish lottery even when you didn't even buy a ticket for it.

True enough chaps. It's just hard to imagine folk still falling for these scams. We're generally speaking more 'educated' and with the speed that information travels wiser to these things too.

Paddy_B

It's good to raise awareness about such scams.
In this case, it would indeed take someone incredibly gullible to fall for such a ridiculous price.
However a similar add that is a believable price could be pursued by a wider range of buyers.

Special Circumstances

Paddy_B wrote: »

However a similar add that is a believable price could be pursued by a wider range of buyers.

But then how would you know you had a properly gullible fish on the line?
Present it in such a way that only those with little sense would fall for it and bingo!

Atlantic Dawn

Some people will call the seller who will then tell them they need to bring the full asking price with them and when they then go to view the car with the full cash on them they are robbed and then spend the next afternoon moaning to Joe Duffy about it.