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Scam please help. LONG!
Hey guys, all right, to begin, I don't want to hear he should have done this blah blah blah.. I need HELP, not a lecture. My boyfriend went on Autotrader.com to find a car, a fast fun car for him to have for himself. Well he found one. A Firebird Formula and its really nice. Well We're almost 100% sure its a scam. Simply for this
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This is the same story the "seller" told my boyfriend. He was leaving to go to War, and needed to sell his car because he will be away a long time, he even sent an email from Autotrader that told my boyfriend how to go about the paying process. The email looks completely real, the click ables are click able, and everything. Well he emailed an email the website gives if you have any concerns blah blah blah, and he emailed our Closest FBI station.
this is some things that just really makes us believe it is a scam.
-He said he is on base in Georgia. But when my boyfriend called the MoneyGram thing, they said the money was picked up in FLORIDA.
-The warning on the FBI website
-The address that he gave my boyfriend is a local club in Georgia.
-I looked on Auto Trader for any distance from our home town and the same car with the same pictures are with another guy from St. Louis. With the same detailing about the car and everything.
-My boyfriend's friend called down to the police station in Florida and asked them to go to the address of the guy's name(although he said he was in Georgia) and the house is forcolsed. But that police man is looking for people with that last name around town
We know that it would be VERY easy to catch this guy, but only with the FBI's help. Would they help us? I'm thinking since there is a link on their main website for the scam they would help us.
please help us in what to do. My boyfriend is a very smart guy, he is a 4.0 student in College, and was in H/S. He was very happy about getting this car and believed that he was in the Arm forces, and didn't think anything about it. We know that he should have been more careful, I'm not here to listen to say that, I just want to know what should we do in trying to get catch this guy and help the others who have fallen for it also. Thanks!!
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You should definitely file a complaint with the FBI, but, your boyfriend may never see his money again. These scam artists are very shrewd and I'm betting whatever name they used wasn't their real name. My guess is, he can kiss that money goodbye, but the FBI knows alot more about these scams than I do and may have a way of tripping the scammers up.
Either way, yes contact them. At the very least, it will give them more info to stop this sort of thing from happening to someone else.
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Possibly get in touch with your local authorities & see what they tell you to do. If it's possible, talk to the FBI. Even if they can't help you, it's worth a try.
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