| Comment | Be very, very wary of too good to be true car ads on marketplace. This is a scam that’s becoming very common. Here’s how it works
Scammers get hold of a legit profile and start posting ads for very nice cars at ridiculous prices
Potential buyers contact them and they’re either asked to put down a deposit or worst case the full price
They then provide a collection address and the buyer turns up at some random address to find the car doesn’t exist and they’ve been scammed
The telltale giveaway is these profiles will be selling dozens of cars and if you look at the adverts, no two vehicles will have their pictures taken in the same places. They’ve basically just stole pics and descriptions from a bunch of random legit car ads.
I’m in the market for a camper van and there are loads of these scams on camper vans. I reckon I see 4-5 dodgy profiles every day running this scam |
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