Need help or advise after being scammed

[porschenstock]

Hi All,
I have bought this car about 3 weeks ago

https://orlando.craigslist.org/cto/d/winter-park-euro-1978-porsche-911-sc/7326571691.html

I bought many cars in US and this is the very first time I've got trapped.
Before paying I got the seller passport, spoke to hime over the phone, asked for many pictures even some hard to find details for a non knowledgeable average connoisseur to make sure I was buying from someone honest.

Then I paid the car to his bank account, asked a shipping company to pick up and the seller phone wasn't working anymore.
The advert also disapeared also from carigslist.
Today somehow !! the advert is again on.
I was wondering if it's the same scammer, probably yes and what could I do to get him through the police may be ?
May be someone form the forum could contact him through the advert to ask for some details pretending to buy the car and ask for his phone number.

Many thanks if someone could help me getting my money back and get this guy out of business.

[matt930s]

Sorry brother, I think you got scammed (I hope I'm wrong). I've seen that car posted around the country in the past.

[matt930s]

Capturing before it disappears.

[porschenstock]

That's the one, but I don't get why he is so stupid to repost the car again so the scammer can get spotted

[matt930s]

These guys don't care and they are often operating from overseas; not sure what recourse you have, but I would get ahold of the authorities and your bank maybe as a start.

[porschenstock]

He was using a USA mobile phone number

[matt930s]

Those numbers are spoofed all the time (or could be a burner phone).

[Matt Monson]

I remember that car. It was actually for sale a couple years back. Sorry you got taken.

A lot of these Florida scammers are really in Puerto Rico. Still US but may as well be a foreign country in an instance like this.

[iwaptr]

Asking price of $26K should gave been a dead give away.

[cassisrot]

I just don’t get sending thousands of dollars off to the twilight zone.

[Mocker]

My sympathies. I wish you good luck in getting your money back.

[Mocker]

By the way, it appears that the pics were lifted from a BAT auction from March 2018 (I use an internet search tool called TinEye).

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1978-porsche-911sc-3-0-3/

[amg463]

Quelle surprise. You really thought you were going to be able to buy a clean SC for $26k USD? Where did you leave your brain when you woke up that day? Either a 1Ton baguette fell on your head or all the foie gras you've been eating crossed some of the wires in your brain.

[matt930s]

No need to be a ****….

Originally Posted by amg463

Quelle surprise. You really thought you were going to be able to buy a clean SC for $26k USD? Where did you leave your brain when you woke up that day? Either a 1Ton baguette fell on your head or all the foie gras you've been eating crossed some of the wires in your brain.

[Rick Brooklyn]

Yeah no need to kick the guy while he's down.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. However, my two cents for the OP:

If I were you I would lean hard on the bank via a local lawyer. The Routing Number identifies the bank. Your wire instructions should have specified the branch address. I would look for a lawyer local to that branch and engage them to lean hard on them.

Also this is a clear case of wire fraud so the FBI has jurisdiction. They have much bigger fishes to fry but there's no harm in reporting the fraud on their website, worst case they won't get back to you.

[juanbenae]

Originally Posted by matt930s

No need to be a ****….

as i recall it that's kinda his thing??

[Unobtanium-inc]

Originally Posted by Rick Brooklyn

Yeah no need to kick the guy while he's down.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. However, my two cents for the OP:

If I were you I would lean hard on the bank via a local lawyer. The Routing Number identifies the bank. Your wire instructions should have specified the branch address. I would look for a lawyer local to that branch and engage them to lean hard on them.

Also this is a clear case of wire fraud so the FBI has jurisdiction. They have much bigger fishes to fry but there's no harm in reporting the fraud on their website, worst case they won't get back to you.

The FBI doesn't care, you willingly sent money, and they really don't care if someone in another country did it, sad but true.

The takeaway from this is if it's a super smoking deal on craigslist, and the ad has been up for more than an hour, it's a scam, every time.

---Adam

[911heaven]

Originally Posted by Unobtanium-inc

The FBI doesn't care, you willingly sent money, and they really don't care if someone in another country did it, sad but true.

The takeaway from this is if it's a super smoking deal on craigslist, and the ad has been up for more than an hour, it's a scam, every time.

---Adam

It breaks my heart to hear this porschenstock! Call the FBI anyway. Nothing to lose, and they might care who knows?! I sure hope you find the right lead to getting your situation resolved, get your money back. Where there's a will, there's a way, and there's more than one way to skin a cat. I was thinking also about interpol, yet I don't know if that helps.

[Otter74]

Not that I'd have expected you, being in France, to have picked it up, but the pictures were taken in California. There is a CA plate on the Prius in the background and it just looks like CA.

[porschenstock]

Thanks for the advices, first I'll call the bank to see if they can contact the scammer bank, I have bought hundred's of cars from US and never ever got any problem, sometimes you think than you are clever and take enough security checks but not this time, for AMG 463, foie gras and baguette don't do that much damage.