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Cheap GT3

All 997GT3s are 2007 MY.

The photos are of a genuine GT3, but the description/spec isn't.

Correct price would be nearer £85k.
 
If you decide to contact them then call them; don't use email as instructed:

When you contact us through " Email Seller " option please unmark " Hide my email address " because we will not be able to email you back .
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Some of these are just set to collect your ebay tag, name and valid email address... According to the Stoneacre motor group site the number should start with 01724 for Scunthorpe... You can try calling 0870 756 5183 so see if this is a genuine seller representing them...
 
I am highly suspicious of this item.

If anyone is interested in this 'bargain', perhaps an enquiry of the local Trading Standards Office and/or SMMT and/or the police might be a good idea. An HPI search would be essential if you are thinking of parting with £60k+ to a company about which you know nothing.

Just a piece of advice.
 
This seller has 0 (zero) feedback. What kind of car dealership would have a zero trading history??? Best to simply report the listing to ebay.
 
Kish is absolutely right. This is a scam on ebay, people trying to learn valid e-mail accounts which they then use as a basis for hacking all banks and other online facilities with a view to cracking your passwords and stealing all your money.

There are loads and loads of massively underpriced cars. They started as Buy it Now for just 10k style ads, and have now progressed to this dealer format. There is no car or dealer. They often steal ads from other sources, such as Autotrader and Pistonheads which they use as a basis to create these ebay entries.

Avoid at all costs - if it looks too good to be true it always is.
 
Similar thing on ebay for a Ducati 1098 motorbike - £12k's worth up for £4,500 with the same "we can't email you back" routine.

The very same bike (same photo's!!) sold 2 weeks ago for £11,150 - give them a wide berth, unless you like Spam.
 
Why not a gentle word in the ears of the police and/or Trading Standards Office - after reporting this to e-bay? If it is fraudulent, then it is the job of the police to investigate criminla offences including conspiracy to defraud etc.
 
To be honest its quite beyond me how someone would fall for this type of thing. As they dont have the car you would have to pay £60k to them without actually seeing any car...and Im sorry but if your that daft to part with that sort of money without viewing & confirming a vehicle well then you deserve to be ripped off..its not exactly rocket science is it...Im sure the Police have better things to do than stopping idiots parting with cash, I mean there's all those speeding motorists to catch doing 31mph in a 30 zone...
 
ORIGINAL: Chris5150

To be honest its quite beyond me how someone would fall for this type of thing. As they dont have the car you would have to pay £60k to them without actually seeing any car...and Im sorry but if your that daft to part with that sort of money without viewing & confirming a vehicle well then you deserve to be ripped off..its not exactly rocket science is it...Im sure the Police have better things to do than stopping idiots parting with cash, I mean there's all those speeding motorists to catch doing 31mph in a 30 zone...
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They are not after your 60K, all such sellers do is take your valid email address when you contact them as instructed and then one fine day they will send you a fake email which will look like an email from ebay with your ebay tag name etc and all you need to do is click on the link to be connected to a fake ebay site where they will log your username and password...

Anyway, as mentioned I wrote to Stoneacre motor group as shown on the site and this is the reply I got:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sales Scunthorpe[/b] <sales.scunthorpe@stoneacre.co.uk>
Date: Apr 3, 2007 11:22 AM
Subject: RE: Porsche GT3 on Ebay
Cc: paul.hyde@stoneacre.co.uk




Dear Sir,
Thank you for the email"¦ this is not our car or a genuine seller.
Kind regards.
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The only way that this sort of scam can be stopped is for someone to tell the police and e-bay and ensure that the fraudsters are caught.

And we pay taxes for the police to catch real criminals as well as speeding drivers - if they refuse to investigate, then perhaps they should be reminded of that fact!
 
ORIGINAL: juliany27
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The only way that this sort of scam can be stopped is for someone to tell the police and e-bay and ensure that the fraudsters are caught.

And we pay taxes for the police to catch real criminals as well as speeding drivers - if they refuse to investigate, then perhaps they should be reminded of that fact!
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Nope you are being too idealistic.

Report to ebay? Yes, they can remove this advert and track IPs (which are so easy to mask anyway) and try to block future adverts from this source.

Report to the Police? A complete waste of time. TBH, I'd hope that things would be this simple, but in the real world the Police are so severely lacking in skills and expertise with regards to any form of phishing, which this scam obviously is, that they will not get anywhere.

With regards to these ebay motor scams, a lot are operating out of eastern Europe via Italy. British Police, even the ones specializing in cybercrime won't know where to start.

The best thing anyone can do is to avoid these kinds of scams by being educated about things. All they want is your email address so that they can reply with a phishing url to collect your username and password. If you continue to respond to further emails, they'll try putting a key logger at your end and try to give themselves remote access to your PC (both quite easy to do if you know how) so they can search for other information valuable to them, such as bank details, credit card statements and any other financial info you have.

The other thing worth doing is forwarding any emails from such ar$*h**les to spoof@ebay.com

As others have already said, if it's looks too good to be true, then it is.
 
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