Car buying scams both online and offline and how to protect yourself page 3

Car buying scams both online and offline and how to protect yourself

If you’re buying your car through eBay motors then make sure you use the “Contact seller” link so you contact them through eBay’s system, this correspondence can then be monitored. Never email addresses that are featured in the item description, for a start that’s against eBay’s terms and conditions and that is how scammers do their business!

Keep in mind, EBay is simply an auction site, they do not offer escrow services. If a seller offers to use eBay to escrow the money then it’s a fraudulent offer. EBay does not do escrow as of yet.

There are different types of domain names on the internet, I mean .com, .net, .org.com are for companies, .org are intended for non profit organisations and .gov is obviously for governmental websites. Escrow companies main intended purpose is to make money, no escrow website would be a non profit organisation, and so no escrow websites will have an .org domain name and none are run by the government so there will never be a .gov domain name either.

Yahoo offers no guarantees to whether the listing is legitimate or not. If any seller claims that yahoo guarantees the purchase stop talking to them right away, this is definitely fake and the same goes for Ebay too. Some sellers claim that the car is guaranteed by the site that they have listed it on, no site that we are aware of as of yet does this but check the website for certain. Auto Trader, Yahoo, and eBay motors certainly do not guarantee the cars listed in their databases and only provide their websites as a listing service.

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As a general rule of thumb any escrow company that uses a hyphen (-) in the name is a fraudulent site. This is normally true because they are pretending to be another company, and since the address without the hyphen has been taken they have to use it. Genuine companies would do research and choose a name with a short easy to remember domain name, think about it, have you ever heard a hyphen in a domain name that has been advertised on the radio? The reason why we are covering a lot about these escrow companies is because this is where most online scams and such occur when buying a car or selling a car. We want to arm you with information and knowledge so that you can avoid scammers and get a great deal on your next vehicle.

Regardless of whether you buy your next vehicle on or offline at your local car dealer we don’t want you to get taken for a ride. Please be careful when you’re buying a car, it’s a lot of money to lose.

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