Trading Post Scam

[Jimmy93]

Hi All,

I have recently been in the search for a defender and found an add on trading post that seemed too good to be true.... and it was!!

The scammers simply copied an add off carsales.com and reposted it for a much lower price.
I contacted the scammer and they had this long story about how they would send the car from the Northern Territory after i had paid the transport company and that they were currently overseas...

It was all linked in with a transport company called Intercargo and from a little bit of research the whole company looks like a scam... It looks like a lot of people have been put out of pocket from them!!

Anyway, just thought i would share this find..

cheers
Jimmy

[Petetheprinta]

Happens regularly, "if it seems too good to be true, it probably isn't'"

[d2dave]

Happens regularly, "if it seems too good to be true, it probably isn't'"

Should be "is".

Apologies to Ron.

[Petetheprinta]

Should be "is".

Apologies to Ron.

"if it seems too good to be true, it probably isn't" (ie. isn't true)

"if it seems too good to be true, it probably is" (ie. is true)

Depends where you were brought up.

[workingonit]

if it seems too good to be true, it probably isn't to good to be true

if it seems too good to be true, it probably is to good to be true

I lean to the second.

Oh...and for a substantial fee I would be happy to check out any NT Darwin based scams for you :) Or is this a scam? (post scam - check scam = $$)

[Yeats]

I found similar scams on ebay. There was an excavator going for a bargain price in the Hunter Valley. Some great pictures but the weight of the machine was not listed. So I googled the model number and found a youtube video of that model excavator. So I did a youtube search for this type of excavator and, lo and behold, there was a video of the exact same machine that was on ebay!
But... It was a video made buy a used agricultural machinery business in the US...
So someone had got the pictures from the US website and made a ficticious ebay listing.
I reported them to ebay (twice!) and they didn't remove the listing! The excavator 'sold' and was immediately re-listed!
After seeing this, I started looking at other ebay agricultural listings and found a few fakes.
Here's a tip: If they have a picture with a listing, save the picture to your computer then go to google images to see if that picture is elsewhere on the internet (google - upload an image).