Thursday, June 17, 2010

Google Checkout Vehicle Purchase Scam

Beware! Google Checkout does not have a vehicle protection program for vehicle purchases! There is a scam where foreigners are stealing vehicle listings from cars.com, autotrader, yahoo auto, craigs list, etc.! They steal the listing and place it on another site with a lower price. The fake seller will post his listing with a fake phone number that is disconnected or it will be a fax machine so that you will send a message to the seller to contact you. This gives the scammer your email address. Soon you will receive an email that states he/she lives in another state, the car is in great condition, garaged, for sale at a low, low, price, and the vehicle is yet in another state. The scammer will tell you that he must sell...some of the stories are...I got divorced, my mother is sick, getting deployed overseas, my spouse died and the car reminds me of my spouse, its either the house or the car, moving. The story is some type of BS that will make you think you are getting a good deal because he must sell, he is desperate! He'll tell you that you can send the money through Google Checkout so he will be protected and your money will be protected. LISTEN UP.....THERE IS NO GOOGLE CHECKOUT VEHICLE PROTECTION PROGRAM!!!! The email that you get is from the scammer, not from Google. The scammer will tell you that if you wire the money to Google Checkout that you will have 7 days or 5 days, etc, to look at the vehicle and you can return it if you don't like it and you will get your money back in 24 hours. The scammer will not let you see the car, no matter what, under you tell him that you wired the money. The scammer does not own the car, the scammers email address is a fake, you can't track the scammers phone number, and if you were to go try to look at the car...guess what, you will end up at someone's home that has NOTHING to do with this scam. AGAIN, Google Checkout does not have a vehicle protection program, or any other program that will hold your money in an escrow account until you say you want a vehicle or any other product. NEVER, NEVER, EVER wire money because if you do you will not have any recourse. You won't be able to stop the transaction once the money is sent (the receive bank won't listen to you if you tell them that its a fraud more than likely), and you won't get the vehicle either. I have received a lot of emails from individuals that have lost thousands of dollars on this scam, please don't be the next. If it sounds too good to be true, then it is. Don't wire money to anyone you don't know, don't believe because you have an email address, home address, a carfax, title, and phone number that the person is actually here in the US. The scammer doesn't own the car in the first place, doesn't live here in the US, the phone number is a LAN line (computer phone), stole someone's address, and will BS until no end.