Persistent scammer on AutoTrader

Wang Computer

Wang Computer

Wang Computer

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...or at least I think.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201310109219722

I've seen several of these ads posted by [email protected] recently. He advertises almost new, luxury cars for ludicrously low prices yet mysteriously cannot be contacted by telephone. I'm just wondering how exactly the scam works once a potential victim has been snagged?

I've reported every one as a scam, but more seem to appear. Do AT even care? Of course, I could be judging him harshly and there is a genuine reason he cannot reach the phone yet has to practically give all these fancy motors away for next to nothing. :cool:
 
It's just a scam to take a deposit/money from you when they don't have the car. I expect AT spend a lot of time removing these.
 
Janesy B said:
It's just a scam to take a deposit/money from you when they don't have the car. I expect AT spend a lot of time removing these.
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Not enough time considering ever advert supposedly sits in a queue and is approved prior to going live. Although perhaps it looks legitimate and they add the image with the email address in afterwards?
 
I have seen quite a few of these scam adverts around but they tended to be @yahoo addresses. They are always nearly new cars going for £7000. And the pictures are generally stolen from elsewhere.
 
Maybe I'm oversimplifying things here but if they go in an approval 'queue' as you say, surely they could do some 'likely scam' filtering based on the delta between ad price and Glasses etc.
 
AT are rubbish at dealing with this kind of stuff. i advertised my car recently with them and made the huge mistake of ticking the "get contact through website" option on the ad. I had no end of nigerian scammers trying it on. AT were less than helpful.
 
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