Got burned on a pretty wise scam today. I pride myself on sensing internet evil, but I got beat today.
Guy listed a 1969 superbee for reasonable money local to me. Underpriced by a couple grand based on description . So not a screaming deal. Emailed with him. Was his dad's car, bought new in 69. Dad passed away and car has not run in 3 years. The guy said he was at work And did not have paperwork with him but said the car was yellow with a black lift off hood (I.e. 440 6-pak).
He said he had one guy in front me but would let me know and the only thing he remembered about the paperwork is that it had a code a12 on it. I'm not a b body guy, so I did not know what this meant until I researched it. Then I realize the car is special.
He gets back to me and the first caller on the car has committed to buy it and is wiring a Deposit today,but the guy is from ohio and he would rather keep the car local and if I could deposit $500 today ahead of the ohio guy, we could meet tomorrow and see the car at his moms house about an hour from me.
Long story short, I loaded $500 onto a prepaid Visa card for him and when the transaction completed , I never heard back from him again.
The purpose here is to warn other car buyers of this type of scam. I don't need to hear what an idiot I am - I am taking care of that on my own. Car was never over advertised or initially underpriced. Lots of email and phone conversations , all seemingly legit. Gave me his credit card number and home address and wife's info , etc,etc.
Good story, sucked me in over time, and the rest is history.
