Rover 75V8 Tourer For Sale SCAM. An apology.
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    Default Rover 75V8 Tourer For Sale SCAM. An apology.

    You may have seen a posting in the Complete List of 260s FOR SALE a little over a week ago, for a LHD Pearl Black R75V8 Tourer #849. The posting, which I made in good faith, included a link to an advert on the mobile.de site. I have been in touch with the current owner, still in Switzerland, Matthias Vogt, who tells me that the mobile.de advert was in fact part of a hoax or a SCAM.

    The car was not, and is not, for sale.


    I feel really bad about this, because I repeated the link that Nicolas (scoubix) had sent me too. He was also unwittingly duped by the 'scam merchant'. It would appear from what I have heard, that the hoaxer/scammer was intent on spreading the information beyond just the mobile.de advertisement itself.

    Matthias Vogt has accepted my personal apologies, and the Forum's apologies which I expressed on its behalf, for what happened.

    David
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    Unfortunately scammers are every where David one of the downsides to the WWW

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    Apologies not required an honest mistake

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    Quote Originally Posted by scooter View Post
    Apologies not required an honest mistake
    Maybe; anyway I felt that at least Mr. Vogt, the potentially aggrieved owner, deserved an apology, notwithstanding the circumstances, so he got one!

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    Curious what the scammer's response/excuse would have been had someone wanted to view and test drive the car.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stevestrat View Post
    Curious what the scammer's response/excuse would have been had someone wanted to view and test drive the car.
    May have been more a hoax than a money making scam?
    No way of knowing.

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