Car For Sale Scam

Monday, February 21st 2011

Both my dad and brother are in the market for a new vehicle (new to them I mean, not necessarily a "new" car). I decided to go online and do a little searching for them and found what was a too-good-to-be-true advertisement. It was the perfect pick-up truck for only $2,999!! I thought- what do I have to lose? The lady selling it is named Margaret and she just posted the ad a few minutes ago. This could be good...

So I sent Margaret an email to inquire about the pick-up. I was pretty excited to tell D about it when he got home, but he didn't give me quite the reaction I was expecting. He knew it was most likely a scam. "But maybe it's real!" I replied with high hopes.

Sure enough, about an hour later I received a long email reply to say they would ship the vehicle to me from Alaska and I'd have 5 days to return it if I didn't like it. On and on the email went, and D said his friend received the exact same email a few days prior! I went back online and the ad was gone- probably because they had already been reported.

Oh well. I'll keep trying!

Peace :)