Cyber-fraud Stalks Online Car Sales

It's all you see these days cyber crime. You can't charge your iPhone at some random public charging station because of the Juice Jacking (you think that's just a charging cable that they give you, but it's actually a data connection cable and they try to hack into your phone and steal your information); you can't apply for a scholarship because they have online scholarship scams, you can't even get government hurricane relief there's an Irene disaster relief scam. And then this buying a car online may not be such a great alternative anymore to rubbing shoulders with the sleazy used car salesmen because of fraud in online car sales.

That's what the FBI says in a national scam alert online car sales are the latest area of operation for fraudsters. What they do is, they advertise that they have a car to sell you. It's been a fairly regular place that you see this advertisement eBay Motors, Craigslist or some other place. What they do to really get your attention is, they advertise it far cheaper than you would expect for a car like that. They try to give you a (barely) plausible-sounding reason why it's so cheap like they've been deployed overseas by the military or been transferred to another country on a regular job or something.

They use this overseas deployment story not just to try to explain why Everything Must Go Now!, but also to try to explain why they can't meet you in person to sell the car. They also use this reason to ask for little understanding why they can't give you a vehicle inspection. If you buy all of this, they ask you to send the money by Western Union or something to someone else and they ask you to send them the payment receipt by e-mail so that they can send you the car. You'd think people would be wise by now to elaborate scams on the Internet that invariably end in sending money through Western Union. All those Nigeria scams, all those Facebook scams to do with sending money to a friend who's suddenly stuck in Canada, all those grandparent scams they all involve sending money through Western Union. The online car sales thing is just a new wrinkle in the story. It's always something or the other with payment demanded through Western Union. People should realize for anything that happens online, don't use Western Union.

As it would happen, when it comes to online car sales, the criminals try their best to pass muster. They'll say something about the car is covered by eBay's vehicle protection program and that it has liability insurance. Or they will offer to speak to you on Skype anything to help you feel that there's probably nothing wrong going on.

Actually, the vehicle protection program thing shows you how people get scammed. EBay doesn't even have such a program. And yet, when people hear an official-sounding name like that, they don't even bother to check. You just have to keep your wits about you.

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