Car scam by Barclaycard customer

[Smithy99]

Hi,

new to site, but just been scammed by a car advert with a Barclaycard account on autotrader.

Contacted banks, action fraud...any advice?

thanks

[Amethyst]

Re: Car scam by Barclaycard customer

Hi Smithy

Sorry to hear you got caught out by these criminals.

Presumably you saw the advert, contacted the seller, paid via bank transfer to a Barclays account under some made up seller protection scheme ?

Do you have the email addresses / dates / telephone numbers / bank account details the money was paid to / amounts and the original car advertisment and could you post them up here.

There's a number of people on here who hold lists of reported fraudulent vehicles/account numbers etc and can try and see if you got caught out after a report had been made (which can help with getting your money back)

What did action fraud and Barclays say ? (noted and tough probably)

I'll ask Tools to look in later on today.

Have you read the main Ebay Car Scam thread in the Online Scams forum ?

Welcome to the forum, sorry it's under such horrid circumstances.

Bestest

Sharon
xx

[donna101]

Re: Car scam by Barclaycard customer

hi
i too am new to the site.. me and my husband were scammed through "ebay" buying a lorry! same circumstances but our money went abroad, i feel sooo stupid now looking back on hindsight!!
its so sad that these people are getting away with this stuff and i have found that police etc. dont seem to want to chase it up, almost like they are bored of it now!! i am not a computer whizz and thought that because the ad was found on ebay that surely they MUST be held responsible somewhere somehow! no? i mean they are still active on ebay so surely ebay must have some contact details for these people that they could pass on to police..
the lorry was supposed to be so my husband could start up his own business and now we are completely broke, that money was all we had in the world, and it was the outcome of a long long time of scrimping and saving. We thought it was going to be the start of something good, new and exciting and yet all it has done is wripped us up!
i no you dont want to hear what its done to us, but after looking at all these posts about these scams dating back 4 or 5 years even, it amazes me that they are still being allowed to happen!!!!
i am sorry that we seem to be only a couple in a long long list of victims to this scam, and i would love to somehow put a stop to it, and recover my money if there is any possible chance of that!
have you had any luck with anything at all?

thanks for reading and sorry for droning on!!

[PhilipCohen]

Re: Car scam by Barclaycard customer

Consumers should take great care if trying to buy a vehicle on eBay, especially on an eBay auction by a professional seller; buyers should, in particular, look closely at the bidding histories of any others bidding against you as many of the bidders who bid early and often on an eBay auction are most likely the seller's shills, and this may be obviously so ...
Indeed, eBay Inc. is demonstrably the greatest calculated facilitator of auction fraud on consumers that the world is ever likely to know ...
The ugly reality of eBay Inc.:
eBay Motors: Auction Fraud Galore … http://bit.ly/I2gTEU
eBay's crooked auctions marketplace ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas