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19/05/05 - Do you know who you’re buying your new car from?
Police are urging potential car buyers to double check who they are buying their cars from after a scam was uncovered involving stolen vehicles being offered for sale.
Police have been made aware of the problem by a number of people who have come forward when they have discovered the car they have recently bought is actually a stolen vehicle.
The vehicles, normally 4x4’s or other high value cars, are advertised in the motoring press, usually at a price well below market value.
The sellers will often provide a landline phone number but will only be contactable by mobile phone and will always suggest meeting the potential buyer at somewhere other than their home address.
They refuse to take cheques for the cars, only cash, due to ‘problems’ they have had with cheques in the past and although they may supply a log book and registration documents with the vehicle, these are often forged.
These vehicles appear to have the correct number plates and Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) but these are merely what appear on the forged documentation. Neither will a routine check against commercially available insurance databases such as HPI reveal any problems as these vehicles are given the identity of legitimate cars from elsewhere in the country.
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