eBay Scam

A while ago I saw this ad on DealFish where somebody advertised a Toyota Run X for R56,000. The reason I reported it to DealFish was because the person wanted you to pay via eBay and pretend to be from Cape Town. The advertiser’s name is “Karl Kixmiller” but I bet you that it is not his real name.

Today I received an email from a regular reader asking me if I would buy a car via eBay and he told me about this Run X bargain.

Luckily he has not paid the deposit yet, so I stopped him.

Now there is a couple of things to look out here and if you just use your head you can prevent being caught in this scam:

1. If it sounds to good to be true it normally is. Think for yourself, if a Toyota Run X normally sells for more than R100,000 why would somebody wanna sell it for half the price.
2. Why would somebody in who stays in Cape Town request you to pay the deposit using eBay and not directly to a South African bank account
3. Why would you wanna pay a deposit on a car you never saw before?

What this person does is to take your deposit and then disappear.

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