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I was Conned & need Advice...

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    • Feb 13, 2005 3:43:26 pm
    i cannot belive what happenned to me.. but its my own fault for being so stupid.. i had money saved up to buy a tC in the summer, i had $4000 saved up and it was hard to stay at that amount. i found a listing on autotrader that had a 2001 Lexus is300 for $8000.. tempted as i was i contacted the seller. the guy emailed me back a couple of days later, telling me how good the is300 is.. he had what it seemed to be official emails from autotrader that would help out with this transaction. he told me the car is being held at a autotrader warehouse be cause he is in teh UK for the moment and after i pay him a deposit, the car will be shipped to me free of charge. i have no prior experience of autotrader-s services or knew anything related to them, i just knew autotrader is a popular site to sell cars. i wired the guy a deposit of $3800 and he hasnt spoke to me since he received the money. come to find out later that autotrader states that they dont have any warehouses nor do they offer to ship cars, they dont even get involved with buyer/seller transactions.. i am at a loss for words because i am so aware of these types of things that i didnt think it would ever happen to me.. i could not believe how slick the guy was.. havin -official emails- that seemed like it wuz by autotrader but it was actually all a bogus domain address from yahoo... it deceived me and now i dunno what to do.. can anyone here give me any advice because i emptied out my entire bank account to pay for what i thought it was a dream come true.. but now i dont have a car nor do i have the money that i saved up to buy one.. im so mad but at the same time i cant be mad..
    • Feb 13, 2005 3:54:01 pm
    That sucks. First file a police report. You can trace email. You can trace the headers back to the source. If the person was smart, they wouldn-t have done it from their home computer.This site shows how to track the email.http://www.johnru.com/active-whois/trace-email.html
    • Feb 13, 2005 5:44:57 pm
    thanks kernel, im going to file a police report monday morning, i cant believe how i was screwed over so easily..
    • Feb 13, 2005 7:40:23 pm
    There is a lot of this type of scam going around right now and the powers that be are VERY interested in stopping it and putting the screws to all guilty parties. From what I have heard, the FBI has formed a special task force just for scams like this one.
    • Feb 13, 2005 9:44:42 pm
    -iWantC- wrote:
    i found a listing on autotrader that had a 2001 Lexus is300 for $8000..........he told me the car is being held at a autotrader warehouse be cause he is in teh UK for the moment and after i pay him a deposit, the car will be shipped to me free of charge.
    At what point did none of this raise a red flag? LOL.
    • Feb 13, 2005 10:46:21 pm
    ya my friends have been scammed countless times like this on ebay =/you shouldve of talked to someone experienced w/ autotrader b4 u did this. my friends tried to get their money back by tracking emails, home addresses... but all were useless. and they didn-t want to call the police for a coupel hundred dollars. so it was just an expensive lesson for them =/ but as for u.. im sry, hope the cops can do something about this
    • Feb 13, 2005 11:26:49 pm
    -If it sounds too good to be true, it most always is.-Sorry man, that sucks. I always keep that quote in mind when shop on the internet.
    • Feb 14, 2005 12:02:43 am
    yea and it is my fault too because i should-ve not gotten caught up in the whole scheme and wacthed for all the warning signs.. but the thing is i had no prior knowledge about the services offered by autotrader, and everybody knows autotrader is a good website to shop for cars.. so i thought what the heck, should be good enough.. and everything sounded so good and seemed very official, but obviously it wasnt..i-ll take it as a life lesson learned the hard way.. $4000 went down the drain for no reason at all.. i should-ve stayed with the original plan to wait til the summer and get a new tC instead.. now my bank account is emptied and all i got to show for is embarassment. i dunno man, im just gonna report it to every law agency and i hope they catch the bastards and get me a piece of -justice- -___- but what i did manage is to find the autotrader impersonator that acted as the representative to help me with the transaction, i got all of her imfo, address, phone#, and matched with the same email address that was used to deceive me. i wont give up without a fight.. for now, i cant help but laugh at the wake of my stupidity
    • Feb 14, 2005 12:19:21 am
    -iWantC- wrote:
    i did manage is to find the autotrader impersonator that acted as the representative to help me with the transaction, i got all of her imfo, address, phone#, and matched with the same email address that was used to deceive me. i wont give up without a fight.. for now, i cant help but laugh at the wake of my stupidity
    nice, you should give her info to the cops or find a really big friend and go to her house and show her how not to con ppl :frown:
    • Feb 24, 2005 4:55:42 pm
    i work for a bank so i see this crap all the timepeople will put a car online and sell it legitand the buyer will send a bogus certified check get you to cash it and send back anouther cert check for shipping then you get stuck holding the bag for what ever the differnce was on the first check that crap is so commonI am sorry man!! did u get any information what was the acct number to where you wired it you might be able to use that if it is a US acct it is harder to set up a bogus acct (only bc of the Patriot Act) but if the acct is over seas then it is basicly useless to youI am sorry man i hope that u can get you money back
    • Feb 27, 2005 5:06:12 pm
    You said you wired the money? Did you really WIRE TRANSFER it? If you did anything like paypal or if a credit card was involved in any way they almost all offer fraud protection and stuff. Worth looking into.
    • Mar 23, 2005 3:15:27 pm
    if u do a wire transfer like thru western union or somethign theres almost a 100% chance u wont get it back. i almost feel for a scam like this when i was younger and saw a 97 supra for like 7g. the western union woman i was talking to on the phone talked me out of it and i back out of the deal and didnt lose anything but i was a little embarassed bc i was braggin about this beautiful car i was getting. but ill take embarassment anyday....sorry to hear about ur luck man!!
    • Mar 23, 2005 3:41:23 pm
    That-s what we do here at the bank I work at too. We try to discourage our members to wire funds for a large purchase over seas. The main ones popping out right now are the wires to Nigeria. Anyways, I hope you get your money back and everyone be safe out there...there-s plenty of people waiting to scam someone.
    • Apr 11, 2005 11:51:01 pm
    Its amazing that after all these years, people still send money to Nigeria, this scam was going on over 20 years ago, some folks will never learn. Who ever started this in Nigeria, years ago, must be a billionaire by now.
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