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eBay car scam- Thieves are conning motorists out of thousands online, here is how
CON ARTISTS are exercising eBay to sell cloned cars and con buyers out of thousands of pounds, a BBC investigation has perceived .
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 auction website eBay to sell plagiarized vehicles for the purposes of the name of a lawful vehicle, the BBC has acquired .
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Con masters- dubbed" scum of the earth" by one martyr- 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 buying a Mercedes from a vendor in Rochdale .
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Former copper Graham Murray reported the accident to the police, but alleges no action has been made. The delinquents have still not get caught .
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Murray said:" The police have known about this organization 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 dealer solicited he compensate with cash on collection, rather than use the website's secure online pay system .
It was PS17, 000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of get this coin back, ever
Graham Murray
That meant that when he found out the vehicle was embezzled- there was little chance he could get his fund back.
" It was PS17, 000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of get this coin back, ever ," he pronounced .
The scam is known as car cloning, which is a common technique of vehicle crime.
The embezzled vehicle is given the name of a same legitimate automobile, including licence slabs, framework lists and accompanying documentation.
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Two motorists were scammed out of over PS17, 000 each
Prospective customers 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 supplemented:" Cash on collection is very unusual and we were able to request purchasers to always compensate via the scaffold when purchasing ."
A Greater Manchester Police spokesman supposed:" When "weve received" a report of any occurrence, we assess the immediate threat, impairment and probability to the public and allocate officers and resources accordingly .
" We do this with full consideration of all the vying requires that we may be facing at that special era and a decision is then constituted on how to respond .
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" We are currently examining the decision made in such a case ."
Another victim was a man from Forfar in Tayside who was scammed out of PS18, 300 when buying a worked BMW on the website.
Mr Alexander said he was " gutted" and named the con artist as" froth of the earth ."