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3. Gift Card Scam. Another hallmark of many scams targeting used car buyers is a request for gift cards as payment. When the buyer calls the fake toll-free number, they’re told to purchase gift ...
The scam began after a victim listed their cars for sale on Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist, according to a social media post by the Placer County Sheriff’s Office. The suspects arrived to ...
BBB just released an update to a 2020 study about online car buying scams. Starting in 2020, consumers reported that scammers were taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to list fake vehicles ...
The miracle cars scam was an advance-fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by Californians James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not exist, netting over US$ 21 million from the victims.
The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...
John M. McNamara (born 1940) [1] [2] is an American former businessman who was convicted of a Ponzi scheme fraud through gaining loans to a value of $6 billion from General Motors financing arm GMAC, to develop a $400M car sales and property development business.
The latest Facebook Marketplace scam to watch out for: a scheme that sold rented cars for cash on the online secondhand shopping platform.
In the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) 2002 odometer fraud study, the NHTSA determined that 450,000 vehicles were sold each year with false odometer readings, resulting in a cost of over $1 billion annually to car buyers in the US. [3] In the UK, the Office of Fair Trading estimates the annual cost at £500m. [4]