xserpint

My dad was looking to buy a vette, came across this one on autotrader. After I reviewed the emails, it looked like a scam to me (escrow, overseas bank, owner not in country, car not where advertised, will ship the car after a deposit, bad English/grammar). They refused to supply the VIN number, which was a huge red flag to me. These are some of the pics they supplied. I figured someone here might recognize these pics. I've also posted this at ls2 for more feedback, but I'm sending it out all the sites I visit in hopes of finding who really took the pics or at least warning other people.

I've already told my dad to pass on the car and to not have any further contact with the potential scammers. So that is taken care of.

NC01TA

They are probably just pictures stolen from someone else's site. Smart to recognize those foreign scams and you may have done someone a favor by posting this info. I would certainly send an e/mail to Auto Trader to alert them before someone gets hurt. I'm sure they monitor their own site but they may not find that one for a few days.

xserpint

I'm kind of hoping that someone will recognize pics they took since between the three sites (here, ls2, vetteforum), there are a rather large amount of vette owners and friends of vette owners.

I'll probably have my father report it to autotrader so they can investigate the listing. I'm just hoping to nail them if they are indeed scammers - which I think is highly likely.

y2k_ta

iTrader: (80)

That's a scam. No doubt about it. Whatever you do, don't buy that car.

xserpint

Well yeah, I told my dad not to long before I posted. I was hoping someone would recognize pics of their car so that I could tell autotrader to take the ad down to save someone else from falling for it.

proporio

More than likely a scam,
tell him you want to run a Carfax report on it which requires the vin number.

There is no reason for the legitimate owner of the car to not give you the vin numer for a carfax report.

SizzlR239

mostly scams dude