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eBay car scam- Thieves are conning motorists out of thousands online, here is how
CON ARTISTS are squandering eBay to sell cloned autoes 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 artist are scamming motorists out of thousands of pounds online
Thieves are supposedly employing auction website eBay to sell plagiarized vehicles for the purposes of the name of a legitimate car, the BBC has discovered .
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Con masters- dubbed" scum of the earth" by one casualty- 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 incident to the police, but speaks no measures have been made. The delinquents have still not get caught .
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Murray told:" The police have known about this organization 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 seller solicited he compensate with cash on collection, rather than use the website's secure online remittance organisation .
It was PS17, 000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of going this money back, ever
Graham Murray
That meant that 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 get this fund back, ever ," he read .
The scam is known as car cloning, which is a common approach of vehicle theft.
The plagiarized vehicle is given the identity of a same lawful vehicle, including licence plates, chassis multitudes and accompanying documentation.
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Two motorists were scammed out of over PS17, 000 each
Prospective purchasers 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 collect is very unusual and we would request purchasers to always pay via the pulpit when purchasing ."
A Greater Manchester Police spokesman announced:" When "weve received" each of these reports of any happen, we assess the immediate threat, ill and hazard to the public and allocate policemen and natural resources accordingly .
" We do this with full consideration of all the vying requirements that we may be facing at that particular go and a decision is then attained on how to respond .
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" We are currently reviewing government decisions realized in this case ."
Another victim was a man from Forfar in Tayside who was scammed out of PS18, 300 when buying a use BMW on the website.
Mr Alexander said he was " gutted" and named the con artists as" scum of the earth ."