Happens all too often and can get bad.
Jamie Hallam and his fiancee Georgina, drove to Manchester with the cash after successfully bidding for the white Mercedes GLA - police are linking the robbery to nine other incidents
www.mirror.co.uk
It's far too easy to open an ebay account , nice easy robbery , they're completely off guard because they're buying a new car but something should set alarm bells off.
I'm much more cautious these days after a mate told me about one of his mates buying a motorbike
Went to the guys house , everything checked out , paid cash and rode it away
A week later he gets a pull from the police , bike is stolen
They ask him where he bought it and to paint a picture of the transaction
Normal looking house , washing on the line , he made me a cup of tea and bought it out
Did you go in the house
No, but that's not unusual
Well, that house has been unoccupied for a while , he's given you what you expect to see, bought the washing with him , the tea will be from a flask , that's the last you'll see of the bike or your money
He went down to the station and picked out a face from pictures shown to him , they knew the guy , went round his house and he still had some of the money so he didn't lose all of it.
I bought a MGZT a couple of weeks after that , it was cheap all checked out OK but the guy was surprised when I asked if I could see his driving licence and have a look up the hall
The clutch went that night which is why it was cheap but that's another story
