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Originally Posted by jittsl

OK the story gets sicker, the depth of my stupidity gets greater and my faith in humanity drops to an all time low.

After looking at the photos from Autoexotica it is obvious that it is the same car and same photos just with a slightly diffent VIN number (now ends in 3 not 6). So I ring them and ask if they have record of who they sold it to. Their answer is that the car was sold months ago and shipped to FRance. Then I look at the full set of photos and realize that almost all of the second set of photos I asked for have all been lifted from Autoexotica except that the VIN pictures have been photoshopped to the new number and a date stamp for last Thursday has been added to the corner. - I guess I should have been trickier than asking for photos of the undercarriage, the VIN and the little plate on the passenger side door frame.

So still I ask how did they do the inspection. Now you have to imagine I'm busy and pulling a whole lot of things together at the same. I've rung a random garage and simply asked them to confirm that the car exists, that it matches the "title" and that it appears to be in reasonable order - I always imagined that at the price it would require extensive working over no matter what was claimed. I then call Mr Mosley and say take the car to X garage, speak to Robin and she'll do what's required for me. An appropriate amount of time later "Robin" rings me from a phone with an Orlando prefix and says "Yes, the car is here, yes, it matches the documents and although she makes no guarantee it appears to be in good solid condition". Good thinks I, all is well and I send the money and pick it up tommorow. You've probably guessed by now but of course when I ring the real Robin today I'm told the car never showed up and she didn't give it a thought presuming my plans had changed. I now understand the importance of a written report!

It is now obvious to me (but it took me a week) that the car was never in the possession of Mr Mosley and Mr Mosley was probably never in Florida and that I'm a complete idiot.

I don't know how many lessons there are here because I've lost count but I hope those reading this sorry saga are learning as we go.

I PS I will add is that - someone suggested that any requested photos should include a sticky with your name in the photo as proof of currency. Someone else has informed me that it's really easy to photoshop a sticky into photo these days. Given how expertly the vin was alter erred in the photos I received I would believe it.

Pretty sophisticated. To boldly impersonate the PPI shop was the icing on this fake cake. I guess caller ID from that conversation could easily be spoofed.