internet scammer story

[tirebird]

I recommend everyone on this and any classic/muscle car board read a great article in the October issue of "Sports Car Market" magazine. The cover title shows an old Jag with the words "Internet Scammer Comes After Us".

The story is not about the Jag but about a guy who unknowingly called the editor of the magazine with an offer to sell him a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing. I won't give it all away but the seller was using pictures of someone elses car as well as the vin and other documentation. The conversations between the prospective buyer(who was very knowlegeable), the scammer, and the real owner of the car are hilarious.

Of course it's not really funny when you think about how many times this happens on EBAY or Craigs List, or other sites where these scammers troll for victims.