r/Luxembourg • u/be_bold_bro • 2d ago
Discussion Autoscount24 scammer
Beware of those
After listing my car, someone approaches, ‘with strong interest’ of my car at asking price, but ask me to purchase a history report in a fishy website and promise for reimbursement at meeting.
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u/bill84ir 2d ago
I had the same issue, and I forwarded their email to me@rescam.org to distract them 🤣
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u/doji4real Dat ass 2d ago edited 2d ago
How does it work? Can you read the emails that the bot sends?
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u/bill84ir 2d ago
No it seems the bot have fun with them, didn’t take the time to check how it works yet 😄
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u/SteveClement 1d ago
There is also a national cyber fraud campaign going on in case of interest: https://cyberfraud.lu/
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u/SteveClement 1d ago edited 1d ago
So the actual scam you described interprets like this:
You: please give x€ for my physical item, 1 said car Scammer: OK, I am super interested and will give you x², but first pay this amount (did they offer more cash?)
Sorry, if you fall for that, perhaps our school systems have failed, or parenting, or too much TikTok or... For more reasons please pay this BTC address :)
The interesting thing is that young people fall for this.
When I sold my car (in a physical transaction, with the guy having cash on him) at least I was now only potentially liable for money laundry or any other criminal act he might have performed afterwards within a time frame where the car is still under my name. We also both laughed at our amateurish transaction, because I think I forgot some papers but I pinky swore I would give them to him the next day. (he forgot his ID I think)
In any case, I got home jail free.
It was an interesting experience.
P.s: it is AutoScout24 - Typo scams are also a thing. The more precise you are the better. Don't be lazy, read over your post at least once.
For good measure and in case some ❄️ is offended, typos are important (especially in websites) here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting
But thanks for the heads up.
Some sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_matching_scam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_cars_scam
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u/PropertyRemote6070 Minettsdapp 1d ago
Wow, I don't know if you noticed or if your post was meant to be funny, but you are sounding very condescending. Falling for a scam doesn't imply anything about anyone's intelligence. Nor do typos.
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u/SteveClement 1d ago
I disagree with the typo thing. Admittedly OP does not fall in the category of careless typer. But there is a corelation between how much care you give to writing and how gullible you are for random scams. Also I wou never shame someone falling for a romance scam or someone being exploited because of financial vulnerability. Everyone who is greedy and sees dollar signs when being scammed, well, I hope they learnt a lesson.
We are collectively destroying critical minds and dumbing our kids down by just pushing a digital device into their hands where many parents don't monitor the content. That will bite us. Takimg cash in hand and investing into the education systems and nowadays much more into vocational schemes with solid pedagogical foundations would be a way forward. Alas we care more about the price of petrol etc. This discussion is best IRL. There would be more to say and criticise in my statements. The internet is not great for that.
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u/RevolutionaryRoom964 Wee sin ech a waat maa'en ech hei iwerhaapt? 2d ago
"Here's the VIN (n° de chassis), feel free to do it yourself to save us the hassle of reimbursement"