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eBay car scam- Thieves are conning motorists out of thousands online, here is how
CON ARTISTS are using eBay to sell cloned autoes and con buyers out of thousands of pounds, a BBC investigation has observed .
By LUKE JOHN SMITH
PUBLISHED: 08:14, Tue, May 9, 2017 | UPDATED: 08:14, Tue, May 9, 2017
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eBay con artist are scamming motorists out of thousands of pounds online
Thieves are supposedly employing auction site eBay to sell stolen vehicles for the purposes of the identity of a lawful auto, the BBC has find .
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Con artists- dubbed" scum of the earth" by one victim- have scammed eBay purchasers 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 buying a Mercedes from a vendor in Rochdale .
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Former copper Graham Murray reported the incident to the police, but does no measures have been taken. The offenders have still not get caught .
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Murray responded:" The police have known about this gang since January .
" As a former police officer I'm absolutely disgusted. How can you have any trust in the police ?"
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Mr Murray said the eBay vendor solicited he compensate with currency on collect, rather than use the website's secure online remittance structure .
It was PS17, 000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of get this money back, ever
Graham Murray
That follows when he found out private vehicles was plagiarized- there was little chance he had been able to get his money back.
" It was PS17, 000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of going this coin back, ever ," he told .
The scam is known as car cloning, which is a common method of vehicle fraud.
The embezzled vehicle is given the name of a same legitimate auto, including licence dishes, framework counts 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 contributed:" Cash on accumulation is very unusual and we would question buyers to always offer via the scaffold when purchasing ."
A Greater Manchester Police representative pronounced:" When "weve received" each of these reports of any happen, we assess the immediate threat, trauma and probability to the public and allocate patrolmen and resources accordingly .
" We do this with full consideration of all the vying asks that we may be facing at that particular term and a decision is then induced on how to respond .
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" We are currently discussing government decisions represented in such a case ."
Another victim was a man from Forfar in Tayside who was scammed out of PS18, 300 when buying a applied BMW on the area.
Mr Alexander said he was " gutted" and labelled the con artist as" scum of the earth ."