Elaborate Car Scam on Ebay

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I'm actually astonished at this scam, I've heard of people scamming on ebay but this is on another level and I'm amazed the website is still active.

You see a car which is mint condition and around £10k cheaper on ebay, contact the seller re interest and then you're told about this company called Drumenny Transport who use an Escrow service, so they're effectively a "middleman". Well the website exists and if it wasn't for the poor English you'd think it was all legit, they take the money from you and promise a 10 day trial period where the car is delivered and if you aren't happy with it you get a full refund. They even have testimonials from various motor forums and when you click on them they all look legit! Until you click on anything on the page then it takes you to a blank page.

How the heck this website hasn't been taken down I don't know.

This is the site https://www.drumennytransport.co.uk/
 
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Sad to say that this - at least to my knowledge - is a particularly established/well known scam. Thankfully easily avoided as are many scams with the good old "if it seems too good to be true, it probably is" mindset.
 
smr said:
I'm actually astonished at this scam, I've heard of people scamming on ebay but this is on another level and I'm amazed the website is still active.

You see a car which is mint condition and around £10k cheaper on ebay,
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Suspicion raised instantly and probably would scroll past immediately. But go on...
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contact the seller re interest and then you're told about this company called Drumenny Transport
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Right. Suspicion raised..
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who use an Escrow service,
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Seriously?
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so they're effectively a "middleman". Well the website exists and if it wasn't for the poor English you'd think it was all legit, they take the money from you and promise a 10 day trial period where the car is delivered and if you aren't happy with it you get a full refund. They even have testimonials from various motor forums and when you click on them they all look legit! Until you click on anything on the page then it takes you to a blank page.

How the heck this website hasn't been taken down I don't know.

This is the site https://www.drumennytransport.co.uk/
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I mean it sounds dodge af to me.
 
smr said:
I'm actually astonished at this scam, I've heard of people scamming on ebay but this is on another level and I'm amazed the website is still active.

You see a car which is mint condition and around £10k cheaper on ebay, contact the seller re interest and then you're told about this company called Drumenny Transport who use an Escrow service, so they're effectively a "middleman". Well the website exists and if it wasn't for the poor English you'd think it was all legit, they take the money from you and promise a 10 day trial period where the car is delivered and if you aren't happy with it you get a full refund. They even have testimonials from various motor forums and when you click on them they all look legit! Until you click on anything on the page then it takes you to a blank page.

How the heck this website hasn't been taken down I don't know.

This is the site https://www.drumennytransport.co.uk/
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All the testimonials are "legit " and takes you to many posts on many car forums. Of course they may well have spent many years posting fake reviews across lots of forums. I take that back. The links work but the original forum page isnt on the forums website. Clever.

Maybe that was just one site. Google suggests they are legit but all the cars they sell are repossessions. Hence why they are cheap I suppose. And they take credit cards (albeit with a hefty 4% fee) so if you dont get your car at least you can claim the money back.
 
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Diddums said:
If this is new to you, you are definitely going to get relieved of a few grand at some point.

Escrow scams have been around for yonks.
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Ha, I fix computers and sell them for a living so I'm probably more in tune with how scammers operate than most people you'll meet.

In other words (and unfortunately) I get phone calls from people who have been scammed.

The point of my post was trying to understand how such an obvious scam is allowed to exist. Surely people have been stung by this so why is the website even in existence? Are there not powers for such websites to be taken down? Its astounding.
 
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All the testimonials are "legit " and takes you to many posts on many car forums. Of course they may well have spent many years posting fake reviews across lots of forums. I take that back. The links work but the original forum page isnt on the forums website. Clever.

Maybe that was just one site. Google suggests they are legit but all the cars they sell are repossessions. Hence why they are cheap I suppose. And they take credit cards (albeit with a hefty 4% fee) so if you dont get your car at least you can claim the money back.
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Yes and the funny thing is, if you start reading those forum posts you'll realise the writing style is exactly the same, same punctuation, fluidity, spelling, grammar, they all just merge together.
 
Yeah you see these kind of scams all the time, have done for years and years. unfortunately they're still around as people must still fall for them despite them being a blatant scam. I mean who's selling a perfectly good car for 10k less than it's value?

Like someone else said you always have to ask yourself is it to good to be true, if yes then keep scrolling.
 
Not sure this classifies as "Elaborate" 10k cheaper than Ebay lol!!

I sometimes see a program on telly in the office where people are scammed and it always makes me laugh when some one comes on and they've sent 10 grand to someone in Sth America for a flight over to London to meet up and low and behold they don't show up

The old adage of a fool and his money applies so frequently nowdays
 
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and the other one is local facebook groups etc genuine car again too cheap , ring up very interested ....just pay a deposit and we will hold it for you . 20 deposits later they disappear and the car is just a photo of one on a forecourt or worse on a driveway not connected to op. people lose money and no car.
when daughter was looking for her vehicle she used to ring me up dad but it 2019 and its only 3 grand:))))))))))) red flags big time .
then you notice same advert in different towns same car ,same price different reg hmmmmmm.
 
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