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eBay car scam- Thieves are conning motorists out of thousands online, here is how
CON ARTISTS are exerting eBay to sell cloned gondolas and con buyers out of thousands of pounds, a BBC investigation has received .
By LUKE JOHN SMITH
PUBLISHED: 08:14, Tue, May 9, 2017 | UPDATED: 08:14, Tue, May 9, 2017
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eBay con artists are scamming motorists out of thousands of pounds online
Thieves are allegedly use auctioneer place eBay to sell embezzled vehicles for the purposes of the name of a legitimate vehicle, the BBC has obtained .
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Con artists- dubbed" scum of the earth" by one scapegoat- have scammed eBay customers out of thousands of pounds .
At least three vehicles in Greater Manchester were involved in the new con.
One victim, a retired police officer, was conned out of PS17, 000 to purchase a Mercedes from a vendor in Rochdale .
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Former copper Graham Murray reported the incident to the police, but replies no action has been taken. The delinquents have still not been caught .
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Murray mentioned:" The police have known about this syndicate since January .
" As a former police officer I'm absolutely outraged. How can you have any trust in the police ?"
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Mr Murray said the eBay vendor solicited he pay with currency on collect, rather than use the website's secure online fee system .
It was PS17, 000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of coming this coin back, ever
Graham Murray
That follows when he found out the vehicle was embezzled- there was little chance he had been able to get his coin back.
" It was PS17, 000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of coming this money back, ever ," he answered .
The scam is known as car cloning, which is a common approach of vehicle stealing.
The plagiarized vehicle is given the identity of a same legitimate car, including licence illustrations, chassis numerals and accompanying documentation.
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Two motorists were scammed out of over PS17, 000 each
Prospective buyers can run a background check on the car and the details will appear to be correct.
An eBay spokesman confirmed to the BBC that the accounts in question had been closed down and computed:" Cash on accumulation is very unusual and we would query buyers to always compensate via the platform when purchasing ."
A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson told:" When "weve received" a report of any incident, we assess the immediate threat, damage and peril to the public and allocate police and resources accordingly .
" We do this with full consideration of all the playing requires that we may be facing at that particular hour and a decision is then constituted on how to respond .
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" We are currently inspecting the decision established in such a case ."
Another victim was a man from Forfar in Tayside who was scammed out of PS18, 300 when buying a exerted BMW on the area.
Mr Alexander said he was " gutted" and labelled the con artist as" froth of the earth ."