Tuesday, Mar 13, 2012 at 22:26
Police don't really care as it is to hard and not economical to chase these people overseas.
Most you find will use a local Skype phone number and a Gmail, Yahoo or hotmail email address.
Most scam ads have something like this as a contact -
phone 08 8121 3456, email traceyg123e@hotmail.com, Brian, Sailsbury North
The pictures they use are stolen from other ads or they (the scammer) contact the people running legit ads asking for more photos.
There are presently 5 scams like this running in the
Adelaide Advertiser as of today.... most have been in their for a few weeks now and 2 I have seen are the same ads that where run about 6 months ago.
I would say I would see a fair few every day in the Advertiser..... cars, 4x4s, tractors, boats, caravans.
Have a look tomorrow Stephen and see if you can pick them in the
classifieds..... they are the ones with a picture and contact details similar to the one above.
Obviously the Advertiser gets their money for printing the ad so they are happy..... even if it's from stolen credit cards.
As they say if it's to good to be true then it's not true.
It's surprising how many people who should know better get caught in these scams.
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