Nice work! You will love that car!

 

That is just a ridiculous deal!

 

Good luck with that unbelievable deal

 

Thanks guys!! They deleted the listing now, It's from McKenna Porsche. I will have some photos the day it gets here. Hoping it's 4 days from now.. Fingers crossed!

 

Was it the manual GT Silver with Black/Bordeaux interior?

 

Don't worry, african scammer hacked the email and I just wired him 72k... No joke... I'm freaking out to the max and calling the FBI and banks. No solution...

 

Huh?

 

Holy cow! Sorry to hear that. Did you not talk to them on the phone? I remember when I bought a car remote my banker told me a horror story of something similar and said "you're about to wire someone $75k, you sure these people are legit?" Definitely made me think twice.

Let us know the outcome.

 

Wait are you serious?!?!?!?!

 

WHAT?!? Did a scammer intercept your email exchange and gave you their wire instructions instead? I'm so glad I went through my credit union and let them handle the transfer of funds. In this day and age, there's no advantage to paying for such a large purchase up front. Dang!

 

If it's a wire transfer, it very likely cannot be reversed and generally a bank can't do much to help you, and if the scammer is in another country, there's probably not much you can do



Now if this was a listing on a Porsche dealership's site, and some security flaw in their systems was exploited and allowed a scammer to hijack your communications channel and give you fraudulent instructions, I am no lawyer but you may have an angle of attack there... Maybe. But I think most bank wire transfers come with warnings and disclaimers that you must know who you are transferring the money to because it cannot be reversed.

 

This is not legal advice but I am a lawyer.
I completely agree with the previous comment.
If nothing else you may have a claim against the dealership.

Having said that, I'm still not sure if the buyer is messing with us, because I googled and do found the car he bought, and the dealer really did take the car down from the site. I saw pics of it caches by google.

 

I work in the investment industry and the things I have seen will make anyone paranoid about doing ANYTHING without multiple confirmations.

We treat all outgoing wires as if though it was a criminal act and work from there.

The slightest doubt/inconsistency and we stop it dead.

 

The OP stated in one post that the car was being shipped from California to Illinois. In a later post he said the car was purchased from McKenna Porsche. McKenna is in Connecticut. Draw your own conclusions.

 

The plot thickens...