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23rd May 2016, 10:47 | #1 |
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Pretty Sure My Dad's Been Scammed
My 87 year old Dad supposedly Bought a Car on Ebay ( very cheap.. so warning bells straight off for me ) and the deal was/is being done via this MOB ..linky. But now since he's paid up ( 3K ) its all going to rats , he's had 3 promised delivery dates missed and no replies to querys . Their UK Phone number is having "techinal problems" . Chris
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Oh no get onto paypal (did he use paypal?) and try and get payment reversed. Or whichever method he used to pay.
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23rd May 2016, 10:54 | #3 |
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Just a snippet from trucknet HERE
and they don't take paypal or credit card payments, so no chargebacks
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23rd May 2016, 11:16 | #4 |
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He did a Bank transfer ..
Seen that Truck forum thread .. And now found this one .. http://www.old-classiccars.co.uk/for...22012_OCC.html C
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23rd May 2016, 11:45 | #6 |
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I really do hope he hasnt been scammed - but it looks like he may have - pity he did a bank transfer..
there are so many crooks out there now - trying to steal from everyone else.. it does my head in.. and on a different type of scamming - the emails they can send can look so valid that its easy to see why people can put details in as requested. my dad constantly rings me up asking about emails he has received.. anyway getting back to the point - I really do hope all works out, and your dad hasn't been scammed.. what has ebay said? Can they do anything if payment is via bank transfer? not sure? I expect not.... Last edited by Reebs; 23rd May 2016 at 11:47.. Reason: Dodging swear filter |
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Its a straight scam... unfortunately as much as i dont want to say this, there is nothing you can do and i very much doubt you'll ever see that money again.
eBay cant do anything as it was done via bank transfer, the best thing to do would be to ring the banks "fraud protection line" and explain what has happened. They may be able to reverse it, but only with 14 days... or something like that, any longer then you money really is lost |
23rd May 2016, 11:56 | #8 |
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Sorry to tell you this is a scam that has been doing the rounds for years.
My brother in law was almost taken in. Lady advertised a car in Oxford, a nearly new Audi A3 for £5000. When he rang, she was joining her partner in South Africa and the car had been taken there by him. She also offered the transport system to deliver the vehicle. Fortunately he realised there was no car, no 'lady' and it was a scam.
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I would very strongly suspect a scam - looking up that web domain gives me this .
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If he bought the car through Ebay (i.e. 'buy it now' ) then He may be able to get Ebay involved (but may not help much). But if he contacted as a classified ad then the purchase was made outside of Ebay. Was any part of the sum payed by Paypal, maybe as a deposit? If so then contact Paypal - you should be able to at least recover that. As also said contact your (your father's) bank as well and see what they can do.
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23rd May 2016, 20:46 | #10 |
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Well Been digging into whats been going on .. but the old guy gets all confused and out of his depth when things get outside the Buy/pay/get delivered senario .
Found the deleted auction number at last , and Got Santanders Fraud Squad on the the case ? We will see .. C
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