Posted by T.J. Higgins on July 14, 2011, 11:05 am
>Say you find a bike for sale on Craig's. You agree to meet the vendor
>somewhere; he wants to hold the full sales price in cash while you
>test ride it. So you go for your ride and return to find the seller
>gone. He's got your cash, but you have his bike... or do you?
>It could be stolen, or a rental, except how could he rent it
>without giving ID and a credit card, etc.
When I am considering a vehicle on CL and the seller demands "cash
in hand" before allowing a test drive, I take a friend. The friend
holds the cash and stays with the seller while I take the test
drive. The friend also packs weaponry.
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Posted by The Older Gentleman on July 14, 2011, 1:25 pm
> By some principle related to Murphy's Law, if a person has
> a vulnerability in his/her personal security policy, odds are
> that sooner or later some crook will discover and exploit it.
>
http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/events/Alberta+loses+thousands+online+cl
assified+scam/5096134/story.html
>
> Say you find a bike for sale on Craig's. You agree to meet the vendor
> somewhere; he wants to hold the full sales price in cash while you
> test ride it. So you go for your ride and return to find the seller
> gone. He's got your cash, but you have his bike... or do you?
> It could be stolen, or a rental, except how could he rent it
> without giving ID and a credit card, etc.
>
Use common sense. In this instance, the buyer let the 'seller' have both
vehicle and cash, which was stupid in the extreme.
There are a million scams out there, and most of them rely on greed as a
factor.
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Posted by Stephen! on July 14, 2011, 9:06 pm
> http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/events/Alberta+loses+thousands+online+c
> lassified+scam/5096134/story.html
"The VIN number, when checked, come back as not stolen. "
Well, there's the problem... He should have just run the VIN rather than
the "VIN number"...
I wonder how many dollars money he spent running the VIN number. Did he
get that dollars money from the Automated ATM Machine using his Personal
PIN Number?
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>somewhere; he wants to hold the full sales price in cash while you
>test ride it. So you go for your ride and return to find the seller
>gone. He's got your cash, but you have his bike... or do you?
>It could be stolen, or a rental, except how could he rent it
>without giving ID and a credit card, etc.