[B2CARPEN]

Thanks for posting that info regarding that scammer. Something to remember is desperate times call for desperate measures... and since our economy has taken a huge hit, you'll see more and more idiots like this trying to scam their way through life at other's expenses.

[turtlerace]

Originally Posted by The_Bandit

titles have raised stamps where I'm from.

That is easier to fake than the paper is.

[herbiehind]

there's a scammer on cr/l right now . the picture for the same jeep every time and always from a different town lol . i e-mailed him and he was posing as a sgt. in airforce stationed in alaska . hten i see another one supposedly in u.k . same thing (air force) . sad really .

[DocJake]

Originally Posted by herbiehind

there's a scammer on cr/l right now . the picture for the same jeep every time and always from a different town lol . i e-mailed him and he was posing as a sgt. in airforce stationed in alaska . hten i see another one supposedly in u.k . same thing (air force) . sad really .

Sad because I googled the "Sergeant's" name before I contacted him. The name checked out. The carfax report i got too. Everything in order, right? Well... using a reasonable price, an actual name, and a real VIN is clever..but not failproof.

Thank god most criminals are scared to meet face to face and try to close the deal.

Doc

[pdm66]

Originally Posted by DocJake

....clever..but not failproof.

Thank god most criminals are scared to meet face to face and try to close the deal.

Doc

Thats right Doc, and you have touched on the one element that if you pay attention to, will almost always alert to a scam. Its the same element that alerts you in a dream that you are in fact dreaming and that you are not experiencing something real.

The element is that of something that either goes against normal behavior, normal rules of transaction or violates some physic's principal.

When I deal with psychiatric patients in the ER, many of them can usually tell a good story and carry a conversation to a point that they seem pretty normal... but the longer you go the more likely they are to screw up and say things that make no sense at all, doesn't fit the situation or is flat out impossible or improbable.

The scam artists depend upon the insecurity of the would be buyer and also the emotional aspects of the sale.. ie. good price, excellent vehicle, hard to find etc.. and unless you deal with this all day long, its hard to spot at times when you are doing the deer in the headlight syndrome thing. We all want to believe our fellow man wouldn't do such bad things and we want what they are selling so bad.. Its human nature.

I have sold many cars without the title in hand.. Most of them have come to my house to buy it. Its all in how you talk I guess for some people. I am very very sensitive to how the car/deal is presented.. If you listen carefully, you can figure out if they are legit. Remember, somewhere somehow, they f it up.. and its usually something that a legitimate owner would never mess up on..