Car buyers scamming sellers by pouring oil on engine

[gsxr]

New scam. Bad guys distract seller while pouring oil on the engine, so it smokes during a test drive, then they convince the seller the "engine is blown" and offer them pennies on the dollar to take the "damaged" vehicle off their hands. At least a couple of them were caught:

 

[duuder]

Always watch out when a whole crew comes and scrutinizes the car...

Its a gypsy type activity unfortunately

 

[maw1124]

Giving Brad Pitt in Snatch vibes...

Which was of course quite a bit more imaginative than this one.

maw

 

[duuder]

Common one I see often is, someone will have a knick on their car and the guy (usually out of state plates) will say, "I just fixed a dent on the same car last week and I have the color match for th car..." or I can fix that scratch for you. They do this in grocery store parking lots

I saw this happen over the summer to someone, before he left, I took his tools and put them in the garbage

 

[JC220]

Common one I see often is, someone will have a knick on their car and the guy (usually out of state plates) will say, "I just fixed a dent on the same car last week and I have the color match for th car..." or I can fix that scratch for you. They do this in grocery store parking lots

I saw this happen over the summer to someone, before he left, I took his tools and put them in the garbage

I don't quite understand this one - do you mean the scammer removed tools from the mark's car then kept them?

 

[duuder]

I don't quite understand this one - do you mean the scammer removed tools from the mark's car then kept them?

no, the scammer was parked half a block up w/ his mini van hatch open, going back and forth, leaving his garbage everywhere - i placed the mess in the garbage can

 

[Harv]

Here's a real-world example. 3 guys tried to scam this Youtuber on his G500.

 

[gsxr]

Unreal! They actually dumped oil in the coolant reservoir!!!

 

[R129 UK]

Unreal! They actually dumped oil in the coolant reservoir!!!

This is a common scamming trick in the UK, 2 (or more) guys rock up to view the car for sale and 1 creates a distraction at the rear of the car while the other "doctors" the engine.

Beware of the car selling scam doing the rounds: The 'dirty oil trick'

The 'dirty oil trick' has been used for years by con artists who'll trick you into thinking your engine is broken and try and get you to sell your car cheap for scrap.

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