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Just read about this scam on a motoring forum.

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Just avoided being scammed selling the X5 - All on CCTV!

So, I've just had a really nasty incident selling an 04 X5 that failed an MOT because of a few not-too-terrible problems. It has sat on the drive for a couple of months and been replaced by a Disco and quickly forgotten. Decided to stick it on eBay dirt cheap and see what happened. I was...
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Thank you for the heads up.
 
Common scam apparently. I hate selling stuff as you just never know what kind of person will turn up :(
 
L320Rio said:
In all honesty you do have to question the mentality of some one who agrees to meet with people that he strongly suspects are crooks.
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So, please tell me how to differenciate between honest and dishonest people from a phone call? I suppose, if you simply go by accent, then you could be labelled as racist/xenophobic? Years ago, I was flagged down by a bloke on a slip road off the M2 in Kent, his car was on the hard shoulder, he said it was broken down. He was East European and he said that he would give me a couple of gold rings if I could give him a lift to a phone, that is when I noticed another guy sneaking up on the passenger side of the car, so I quickly drove off.
Sometimes you don't know something is happening, until it is happening.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AfqweW4_X0


https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=594051565317558
View: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=594051565317558
 
andya700 said:
So, please tell me how to differenciate between honest and dishonest people from a phone call? I suppose, if you simply go by accent, then you could be labelled as racist/xenophobic? Years ago, I was flagged down by a bloke on a slip road off the M2 in Kent, his car was on the hard shoulder, he said it was broken down. He was East European and he said that he would give me a couple of gold rings if I could give him a lift to a phone, that is when I noticed another guy sneaking up on the passenger side of the car, so I quickly drove off.
Sometimes you don't know something is happening, until it is happening.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AfqweW4_X0


https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=594051565317558
View: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=594051565317558
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" ...today two guys turned up. From the conversation on the phone they barely spoke English. Gut-feeling having spoken to them and read various messages via eBay was that these guys were up to no good."

His words, not mine.
 
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