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Sep 29, 2022 · Consumers buying second-hand cars online are being warned to beware of scams, after a rise in cases of fraud. It comes after a BBC investigation exposed a fake car dealership website called...
- Is This Used Car Dealer Real?
- Martin Ford Auction – August 2023
- Car Sales Distribution – August 2023
- Sr Vans – August 2023
- Peter Scott Auctions – June 2023
- Done Spanners – May 2023
- Premium Auto Sales Ltd – May 2023
- Used Car Sales Ltd – May 2023
- Silantlea Limited – May 2023
- Elvaron Limited – May 2023
As it stands (August 30, 2023), Car Dealer has investigated 22car dealerships. Further down this post you can read our tips on how to spot them. The names of the fake car dealers, or businesses we have serious concerns about, include:
Martin Ford Auction is a scam website, a duplicate of Peter Scott Auctions mentioned below. The website martinford.auction offers cars that it claims have been seized by the police and are therefore available at bargain price. It also offers a paid subscription to bid on these vehicles. Both of these websites have operated for months and TrustPilot...
This fake car dealer is operating from the website car-sales-distribution.com using the real business details of a business in Ireland. Not only are the vehicles way under even trade value, the testimonials have been stolen from a variety of genuine car dealer websites and other content of the website is also lifted from across the internet. Car De...
This business was unusual in that it operated on eBay and Gumtree, selling bargain used cars without a website front. It threw up red flags for consumers when they saw that the company had only recently incorporated. It had created a fake business profile on Google using the associated address. Buyers who had paid by bank transfer for vehicles that...
The Peter Scott Auctions website claims to offer cars seized by the police for sale at auction. However, we’ve been able to find the real cars for sale with legitimate dealers for much more realistic prices. Peterscott.auction has made it harder for consumers by removing the registrations from all images and sharing very little information on it’s ...
Done Spanners is another website using the same website seen by Elvaron and Silantlea Limited, claiming to be a long running online auction for bargain cars. They are even using some of the same stock twice and exactly the same design and content. The website owners have a convincing 299 point check for their vehicles and claim to have many happy c...
We were alerted to this website by a number of consumers who spotted its similarities to other websites listed on this page. In fact the content of the website appears to be largely copied from the now shut down Perth Vehicles, which caught so many people out. The address used this time is for a residential property, and should be a red flag for co...
This website usedcarsales-ltd.com pretends to offer reposessed vehicles ‘at a fraction of the price’, when actually the images are stolen from various other car listings around the internet. The look of the website uses a popular template used by fake car dealers and offers very low price vehicles. Unlike other scam websites there is very little ex...
Car Dealer was alerted to this website by a consumer who saw similarities between Silentlea and the previous Elvaron Limited car auction. Elvaron Limited has now been shut down and Silantlea quickly popped up with exactly the same website under a new name. Unlike other websites mentioned on this page, these website pretend to be an auction offering...
Elvaron Limited uses a new format where it offers consumers bargain auction prices for cars. On its website elvaron-ltd.co.uk users are asked to pay a minimum £2,000 to subscribe to the website and bid or purchase at low buy it now prices. The website is convincing and detailed, using content stolen from other websites including Cazoo, and even a f...
Dec 16, 2023 · reviews. In the first half of 2023, criminals stole £580 million from consumers through scams and fraud, and a growing number of those fraudulent transactions were for used cars or car parts....
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Nov 22, 2023 · How online car-buying scams work. Typically, these scams involve criminals posting non-existent vehicles or vehicle parts on social media. Scammers will use stolen images of genuine vehicles and sometimes even feature a fake address. Mark (a pseudonym) spoke to Which? after he lost money to a car-buying scam on Facebook.
Feb 20, 2015 · It looked legitimate – and a quick online search shows that there really is an IT company by that name, based in New Jersey – but upon closer inspection it became obvious that Beverly's offer...
Sep 12, 2024 · If you have fallen victim to a car buying or car selling scam, the first thing you must do is report it to the police and an anti-fraud hotline.
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