I am sure I am not the only person who gets driven to distraction by some of the obvious classic car scams on the internet.
To be honest, I fail to see how my most hated one makes any money. It's always precisely the same technique and pretty transparent to anyone with a half a brain, so I simply can't imagine anyone falling for it.
Yet they are presumably paying roughly £10 per listing on a well-known auction site, so some people must be taking the bait, or they wouldn't persist.
In case you haven't seen it, this is what happens.
They advertise a nice classic, using pictures of one that either isn't for sale or is from someone else's advert, with a classified price that is far too good to be true.
To be honest, it is so far under market value, that it doesn't set alarm bells ringing, then you need new batteries.
The seller always has a different name, but always has zero feedback.
The main text of the advert is always the same weird style like in the main image of this blog. Even though the content changes slightly, it is the same fonts and layout and looks almost like an embedded photo or cloned page rather than that anyone has typed anything in.
The e-mail to respond to is always the same, and always different to the seller name, and so are the caveats over why and how you must contact them.
If you do, they will make sure that they find out where you are geographically before announcing that they are at the other end of the country, but promising to deliver the car to your door on receipt of the cash, often an even more reduced amount than in the advert.
