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Old 03-23-2020, 06:22 PM   #19
Aarongriffey
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Default Re: Please educate me on scammers when selling a car

I had a future customer who was buying a 1948 lnternational pickup for $8,000. He was in Piedmont (Oakland suburb), the truck was in Washington or Oregon.
Since the seller was on an oil rig and had just started a new contract he could not be there and had lost his storage.
So he hired a company withe the name Stockholm in it to handle the deal for him.
They would haul the truck to the buyer after buyer sends the money, the buy checks it out for three days and if he doesn’t like it he gets his money back and they pick up the truck, no questions asked.
So he sent the company the money.
A day or two later they notified him they had been involved in a bad accident just north of Reno.
He has never heard from them since and that includes the seller.
He contacted Nevada and CA police and they know nothing about a truck accident that day in Nevada or CA.
I must also say that if the buyer wants to send you more than the asking price, it’s a scam.
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