Title : mini exhaust. low insurance. This car is a real eyecatcher. £4295
link : mini exhaust. low insurance. This car is a real eyecatcher. £4295
mini exhaust. low insurance. This car is a real eyecatcher. £4295
eBay car scam- Thieves are conning motorists out of thousands online, here is how
CON ARTISTS are using eBay to sell cloned vehicles and con purchasers out of thousands of pounds, a BBC investigation has find .
By LUKE JOHN SMITH
PUBLISHED: 08:14, Tue, May 9, 2017 | UPDATED: 08:14, Tue, May 9, 2017
10
4
Ebay car scam conning motorists out of thousandsGETTY
eBay con artists are scamming motorists out of thousands of pounds online
Thieves are supposedly abusing auctioneer place eBay to sell plagiarized vehicles for the purposes of the name of a lawful car, the BBC has learnt .
-- ADVERTISEMENT --
Con masters- dubbed" scum of the earth" by one scapegoat- 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 marketer in Rochdale .
RELATED ARTICLES
DVLA car tax SCAM- DO NOT OPEN to this email if you see it
Car insurance scam could be expensing you an additional PS90 a year, here i ...
Former copper Graham Murray reported the accident to the police, but reads no measures have been made. The wrongdoers have still not get caught .
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Murray said:" The police have known about this gang since January .
" As a onetime police officer I'm absolutely disgusted. How can you have any trust in the police ?"
The simple-minded gradations YOU is a requirement to take to avoid being hacked in an online scam
Mon, April 10, 2017
MAKE sure you are protected against the most recent online attacks by following these simple steps .
PLAY SLIDESHOW
Ensure you're protected against online attacks by following these steps EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS* GETTY
1 of 13
Ensure you're protected against online attacks by following these steps
Mr Murray said the eBay vendor sought he pay with cash on collect, rather than use the website's secure online fee plan .
It was PS17, 000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of get this coin back, ever
Graham Murray
That follows when he found out private vehicles was embezzled- there was little chance he could get his coin back.
" It was PS17, 000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of coming this fund back, ever ," he pronounced .
The scam is known as car cloning, which is a common method of vehicle stealing.
The embezzled vehicle is given the name of a similar legitimate car, including licence plates, chassis amounts and accompanying documentation.
man upset after being scammedGETTY STICK IMAGE
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 contributed:" Cash on collect is very unusual and we were able to ask customers to always pay via the programme when purchasing ."
A Greater Manchester Police spokesman alleged:" When we receive each of these reports of any happen, we assess the immediate menace, harm and jeopardy to the public and allocate men and resources accordingly .
" We do this with full consideration of all the participating requires that we may be facing at that special occasion and a decision is then built on how to respond .
eBay urges users to sell items this spring
Play Video
" We are currently re-examine government decisions started in this case ."
Another victim was a man from Forfar in Tayside who was scammed out of PS18, 300 when buying a worked BMW on the locate.
Mr Alexander said he was " gutted" and labelled the con artists as" froth of the earth ."