jcb928

Someone has stolen my pictures and is using them on Craigslist Toronto,

http://toronto.craigslist.ca/tor/cto/5328018979.html

Don't get scammed if your looking & Flag the ad if you have a second.

Imo000

Or could be just borrowing the picture for the add.

jcb928

I emailed the ad but at $5500 seems pretty cheap, Plus same year and kms?

wpgshark

At 5,500 it is a scam.

Leaving country.
Car is in secure lock up.
Pay with this secure system.
Etc
Etc

Hilton

Not to mention the ad's challenging your manhood

linderpat

well I just bought it, so you'd best send me the car

Shark_gts

Had the same scam (following on the Audi forum)using Audi A8 and S8, Craigslist Victoria, I posted the ad because someone was looking for an S8. The cars were located in a warehouse in Newfoundland.

A guy from the US was interested and conversing with "the seller". So I emailed the warehouse and asked if they had the cars. Answer was no of course and all details sent to them/RCMP.

wpgshark

A quick check of the scam is to check local For Sale in the jurisdiction that the car is supposedly in.

The formula is easy.
Car can't be seen.
Rare but not too high end. Price has to be low enough to get the punters in.
Ridiculously low price.
Then count on someone just having to have it and loosing their senses.

Reality is, that although there are probably hidden deals still out there they aren't likely to be on Craig's list, if they are computer enough to know about the list and post an add, they are computer enough to know the real value of the car.

But always amusing.

sprfrkr

These new CL scam ads are getting really good. Picking such an obscure car to target. I had the same experience with a Toyota Land Cruiser 80 Series. Just obscure enough with a cult-like following. They use ads from other expired CList posts which avoid reverse image search detection.

bureau13

But when it gets down to business, they're insisting you buy a car with nothing but a conversation and some never-updated pics. Actually, I doubt there's any more than email conversation, usually...maybe a phone call. I just can't imagine this ever works, but I guess it must...

wpgshark

It has to work sometime or it would stop.
There are people that are a little short of what they need to buy the car they have always wanted, wait that's me , that just want to believe there is a deal out there and that possibility that this might be it clouds their thinking.

Whether they end up with the whole amount or it saws off at a deposit at some point I can't say, but it has to pay sometimes.

Somewhere in one of these scam threads I go over my attempt with a Range Rover, it was actually very funny as I removed one obstacle at a time to me actually seeing the car, at that point the emails just stopped.

The first ones all about how great a car, all of the recent service, all of the things that someone wants to hear.

Then it won't last long etc.

We really should have a ongoing thread with the scam of the month.

wpgshark

I was wrong, seems the scam has expanded to all manner of cars.

Interesting numbers, $2007 for a 2007 car, now that is imagination.

http://reportcraigslistscams.com/