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Man I am sooo sorry to hear about this. A couple months ago I almost got scammed by the same person. He had advertised a metallic brown 930 Turbo for sale. He sent lots of photos including the vin number. I checked the business on the web and also saw that they were in business 2 years. I didn't see the car on the website...just luxury cars. He said that they didn't deal in classic cars but happened to have this one. When I asked to see a copy of the title, he came up with that too. Might have been photoshopped though. I had asked him where the car was and he said it was in the showroom at the dealership. He even said I can get a PPI if I wanted to. I started getting funds together, but then did a virtual drive by. Using Google maps I noticed that there was no showroom building. From the street views I noticed that there was also no showroom....just a dinky office. It was just a parking lot dealership with regular cars on it. That raised some red flags for me. Luckily I had a friend that lived about 1/2 hour away. He went over there to verify the car and confirmed everything I said. He even talked to the lady at the dealership. She said other people have come to find that they had been scammed. She mentioned that there was already an FBI investigation on the situation. After my friend left, the guy called me back regarding setting up a PPI....I asked him where the car was again.... he said it was there.... I told him that there was no car and my friend just left and talked to the lady there. He immediately hung up on me. I called the FBI to file a report but they never got back with me. With the pending investigations I thought this was stopped by now. There's a trail...not sure why they didn't force it down. Man, I am really sorry about this.
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