samanthajane
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I have read many stories on here as well as other sites and i must admit i thought to myself " how can anyone be fooled by this anymore?" surely it is common knowledge now that these car scams are everywhere...so not the case.
I woke this morning to a conversation with my bf to say that he wouldn't be around to mind the kids a week on saturday because he had something on and does he want me to ask his parents to mind the kids that day. So i said yes and then asked what was he doing.
To cut a long story short he was flying to LIVERPOOL to collect a car that he had arranged to buy on carzone. It was a great deal for only 3,500 euro.
The first words out of my mouth was " have you sent the western union yet?"....got a look of shock from him, then I said i bet he has to fly in from another country.....another look of shock.
Indeed he had recieved the bog standard email of he had purchased the car for his brother in Ireland who had moved to the UK and had died. And that he had to get the western union in his name...blah...blah...blah...we all know the rest.....OR DO WE???
He had never heard of these types of scams before, thought he ws getting the best deal in the world.
I would never of thought in a million years that he would be fooled by one of these scams. He was going to get the western union this morning, book a flight to liverpool and book the ferry back.
He pointed out something to me, that the only reason i do know about these scams is because of AAM, and he's right, i have never seen anything about these scams on the telly, heard about them on the radio, or read about them in a newspaper, and i've neved had a converstation about car scams with anyone else. I'd like to think if i had never heard about them here, and if i was in this situation that i wouldn't fool for it and be taken in. But if i hadn't i could of said this morning " road trip!!! can i come as well, thats a great deal"
So thanks AAM you've just saved us about 4k.
But what about other people who dont use AAM?
The only way to stop this happening ( as well as all the other scams ) is for people to know about them.
So whats the best way to do this???
I woke this morning to a conversation with my bf to say that he wouldn't be around to mind the kids a week on saturday because he had something on and does he want me to ask his parents to mind the kids that day. So i said yes and then asked what was he doing.
To cut a long story short he was flying to LIVERPOOL to collect a car that he had arranged to buy on carzone. It was a great deal for only 3,500 euro.
The first words out of my mouth was " have you sent the western union yet?"....got a look of shock from him, then I said i bet he has to fly in from another country.....another look of shock.
Indeed he had recieved the bog standard email of he had purchased the car for his brother in Ireland who had moved to the UK and had died. And that he had to get the western union in his name...blah...blah...blah...we all know the rest.....OR DO WE???
He had never heard of these types of scams before, thought he ws getting the best deal in the world.
I would never of thought in a million years that he would be fooled by one of these scams. He was going to get the western union this morning, book a flight to liverpool and book the ferry back.
He pointed out something to me, that the only reason i do know about these scams is because of AAM, and he's right, i have never seen anything about these scams on the telly, heard about them on the radio, or read about them in a newspaper, and i've neved had a converstation about car scams with anyone else. I'd like to think if i had never heard about them here, and if i was in this situation that i wouldn't fool for it and be taken in. But if i hadn't i could of said this morning " road trip!!! can i come as well, thats a great deal"
So thanks AAM you've just saved us about 4k.
But what about other people who dont use AAM?
The only way to stop this happening ( as well as all the other scams ) is for people to know about them.
So whats the best way to do this???