Auto Salvage internet scammers
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Auto Salvage internet scammers
Word to the wise, Dont dont DONT use a generic search engine for part searches. I made that mistake last week. I was just doing some research on parts that I would like to replace some of the old beat up crap on my 03. The second I hit "send" I literally got blown up.. probably 50 texts and voicemails.. the first thing that I really didn't even pay attention to were the voicemails, I just looked at and sorted through the area codes and tried to find one closest, but soon it was just a boggle. I texted one of them back and man, they were efficient.. again the lights didn't come on. They asked year, make etc.. and what part I needed. I was probing for a tailgate (liftgate for me I guess).. and again they responded quick with pics from a big blazer, then a trail blazer, then I described what I wanted, they asked what color.. I told them "black".. and like magic, there was a picture of another black on black blazer with the tailgate I wanted.. then.. the play came in.. $300 shipped!... but we are having a sale today! if you pay with gift cards.. its on $250 shipped, the did ask if I had Paypal.. but not pay pal, pay pal.. a paypal cash card.. I immediately felt like a jackass for letting this jackass waste my time... I them listened to all of the voicemails.. EVERY one of them was some Hindi Scammer who used a western name and spoke broken english...
Last edited by Fozzy; 08-07-2021 at 06:36 AM.
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Word to the wise, Dont dont DONT use a generic search engine for part searches. I made that mistake last week. I was just doing some research on parts that I would like to replace some of the old beat up crap on my 03. The second I hit "send" I literally got blown up.. probably 50 texts and voicemails.. the first thing that I really didn't even pay attention to were the voicemails, I just looked at and sorted through the area codes and tried to find one closest, but soon it was just a boggle. I texted one of them back and man, they were efficient.. again the lights didn't come on. They asked year, make etc.. and what part I needed. I was probing for a tailgate (liftgate for me I guess).. and again they responded quick with pics from a big blazer, then a trail blazer, then I described what I wanted, they asked what color.. I told them "black".. and like magic, there was a picture of another black on black blazer with the tailgate I wanted.. then.. the play came in.. $300 shipped!... but we are having a sale today! if you pay with gift cards.. its on $250 shipped, the did ask if I had Paypal.. but not pay pal, pay pal.. a paypal cash card.. I immediately felt like a jackass for letting this jackass waste my time... I them listened to all of the voicemails.. EVERY one of them was some Hindi Scammer who used a western name and spoke broken english...
Dang! Thanks for the warning. Geez. These internet scammers will try any market no matter how obscure.
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