Not a kickback they are the title report company... Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 10:44 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: So obviously the scam is that they are getting a kickback on the "title reports" or whatever other thing they are asking you to pay for to show that the car is "legit." Is that about right?
Allan Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > Not really. > > This is a long running scam on CL I’ve seen before, but it’s been a > while. The potential buyer tries to get you to buy some sort of a > report like this so they’re sure everything is “legit”. I haven’t seen > anything like this for several years, and when I did in the past they > were far more brazen about it, like making an inquiry about the car > and then doing the hard sell for the report or service they wanted to > sell you. They’ll often want you to take the exchange private so they > don’t get nailed by CL, as this one did - they asked for an email > address they could work with directly, so I gave them one of my sock > puppet accounts. That way you can’t flag them with CL. > > I still had their previous emails on CL to me, so I flagged them anyway. > > -D _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
