Best car scam ever

I was involved in one of the best car scams ever. The guy had to have been a pro lol I'm not worried about it though, he made a domain so he could use a private email adress. Well before I sent any money or anything I printscreened the domain and all his info. I also have his vin number of the car which he tried to erase but I print screened that too before he could. I have all this guys info and stuff like t hat how would I go about repoting him? Is there anything I could do, but cut my losses? It wasn't even anything great I just wanted a winter beater as winter is creeping up on us.

Thanks

 

From your post it sounds like you never gave him any money. Can you explain what the "scam" part was?

 

Were you able to find out who owns the domain? Once you have that info, contact local authorities and see what they have to say.

 

how much is it even worth?

make a claim to the police probly...if you ahve the guys info off the domain try and track him via this????

did you send the payment via paypal?????

 

Im confused...Are we talking about a "Vehicle" or is car an abbreviation for something.

Do people send other people Paypal money for cars without ever actually metting them etc?

 

I sent him 3k for the car and right after I found out it was a scam

 

Yeah but he is a few states away, I don't think they would care. I paid via moneygram it's like a cashiers check

 

Sure they do it was just a winter beater if it was a car I planned to keep for a while I would go through a dealer

 

Wouldn't you meet him with cash and pickup the car? Or if you needed a cheap beater car, find it locally?

 

I believe moneygram has a phone number on the back where you can cancel it within 24 hours or something like that...
Did you keep receipt?

 

Old car saying "You're never so slick you can't be greased again."

 

Why would you buy a car and pay for it first? If you are collecting something whats wrong with just taking the cash or a bankers draft?

 

I've bought many cars online it's no biggie I was just going to have the car shipped here. I'm too busy to pick it up myself. It wasn't a beater car just a winter car lol it was kind of nice actually.

 

To be fair this doesn't really sound like the "Best car scam ever".

 

We went through a website kind of like escrow works. We signed up and had an agent on the account. I sent my money to the agent and he was supposed to ship the car. Once I was happy with the car the agent would send the money to the guy buttttt the website was legit the email he sent me wasn't. After I signed up for the account I got an email right away from this guy it was a hoax email but since I just signed up it seemed real. So I went ahead with it thinking I was giving my money to the agent from this site which I was really giving the money to the guy. If that makes sense?

 

It wasn't a direct payment to him I'm not that dumb but I did fall for the hoax email lol. Ohwell I don't even care about the 3k that's nothing to me I just want to stop this guy from doing it again to someone else.

 

The problem is proof...Im pretty sure a WHOIS listing won't stand up in court (Its too easy to fake)

Your only reciept is the one for the money transfer but you would have to get the persons signature from Moneybookers and hope he wasn't smart and had someone else sign for it (not sure if that is possible or not)

Either way you would have to travel to his area for any court appearances. You would have to also check out what the limit is for Small Claims

 

I don't know; it would have me pretty pissed off knowing I "handed" someone $3,000 and didn't get anything, including a kiss -- but, since you're throwing money around, I'm not too far away...

 

the nigerians have been doing stuff like this for ages

this was not the "best car scam ever"

 

So he tricked you into thinking his fake site was an escrow service? Do you even know if he is from the US?