Buy spare parts with the hands - scam or save?

Clubs motorists on the Internet raises not only to communicate with like-minded, but also for the exchange of useful information. Owners of rare machines can share the contact master, ready to tackle the repairs, and more massive community may acquire partners providing pleasant discounts and bonuses. To unite more people, club members create a site on the Internet where you can find information about a car of interest, articles on its use, catalogs license units, quality pictures, and chat in person can be on the forum. Everyone has something to share: a failure or, conversely, a successful appeal to the car wash, clarifying relationships with dealers, legal and practical advice. And, of course, each forum has a section where you can buy something and sell it. If the seller and the buyer live in one city, the sale is carried out in person. In cases where the participants in the transaction are scattered in different cities, it is convenient to use the money transfer through a bank or through the Internet, and the goods being moved through a company-carrier. Trade "with hands" is usually kept in confidence. For a person who is engaged in supplying spare parts for cars, is very important a good reputation. To trust the seller at a distance without even seeing it and without knowing the person - is quite dangerous, but some have enough of what they teammates, but its not cheating. Virtual trust decided to use the crooks, devising cunning and sneaky way of obtaining money. The forum autoclub seller places ads along the following lines: "crashed the car, wanted to restore, but no money, so selling on spare parts." To post attached picture of broken car, and are "healthy" units. Payment is proposed to produce a web-money or bank transfer, and dispatch of spare parts purchased scammer promises to be carried out only when typed a lot of orders. Initially, the new ad is not suspicious, bidding starts, the club members try to catch them reserve the right parts. Spare parts are drawn with different prices - from the cigarette lighter plug for 50 rubles to the wheels for 10 thousand rubles. Subject constantly updated with new messages with offers to buy those or other spare parts and units, the seller is "saving up" orders, his account is replenished. This whole mess takes a few days. Gradually the theme fades, it's time exchange money and goods. Then the seller suddenly stop responding to personal messages and phone calls, there are first disgruntled, who have sent money, but not yet received the order. This is the first part of the scam - until the forum only uncertain assumptions about the deception. Interested in no hurry to transfer money to the seller. But he appears again and calms agitated, explaining his absence from any sudden problem (sent on a mission, and stole the phone, etc.). Victims sigh of relief and begin the second wave of money transfer. But this time the scammer will not appear - he squeezed out all the buyers that could not. Only a few days it becomes clear that spares no one sends. But to find the seller is almost impossible - IP-address may belong to an internet cafe, web-purse may be registered in the name of the figurehead. Even with the banking may be lining - to find out information about the customer, the bank needed an official request from the police. But not everyone will apply for 1500 rubles. Protect themselves from scam is difficult, selling the right items via the Internet - a common thing, and I suspect each of fraud illogical. Used parts are cheaper than new ones in retail stores and even beushnye for demolition. If there is any doubt the identity of the seller, or as a transaction, it is better not to enter it. It is also worth paying attention to the details of your ad. For example, the forum owners Toyota Celica cheater caught on technical inconsistencies - he offered to buy an automatic transmission with its broken machinery, but in this version of the model machines were not staged. Another inaccuracy was the information on the braking system. It quickly brought to the clean water. And now there are sites where people are unaware of the deception, and in the pockets of speculators continue to leak money. Unfortunately, scalded at the same time, motorists are no longer trustworthy and honest sellers. In the end, everyone loses money. Trust is not scattered, especially in cyberspace, where sweet little girl with the nickname "Baby" could be a rough guy. In all fora where similar reports have appeared, subjects were submitted as a warning to newcomers, and the friendly clubs - warned of the danger. The more people know about this method of divorce on the money, the less people will be deceived. Cyril, the owner of the car Toyota Celica: - I've been going to the dismantling of the little things for the car, I needed the cigarette lighter, rear brake light, cover for the wings and covering the left door. And here on the forum of our club selikavodov "stumbled on the sale of broken car in parts, wrote a personal message to the seller. We agreed with him on a certain amount that I was completely suited. In correspondence to my question about the competence of the transaction, he joked, saying, "selikavod selikavoda not disappoint." To the salary I had to wait several days, so the money I have not posted immediately. Fortunately, for those few days managed to uncover a cheater and I do not suffer financially. Vladimir A. Tomilin, Inter-Republican counsel of the Bar: - In criminology there is such a thing - "provocative behavior," ie, frivolous behavior, had led to his becoming a victim. The case with the purchase of spare parts "whole world" - a vivid example of such behavior. It is difficult to understand the person sending the money in advance without any guarantee of receiving the goods or refund. The calculation of the offender in this case is simple: so gullible victim is likely to hesitate to go to the police, and if they will, then, being unprepared to communicate with law enforcement to quickly run away from there. Moreover, even the police adopted a statement a little than facing criminal. The most likely outcome of testing on such an application - the decision not to institute criminal proceedings, which is unlikely someone will appeal. The main thing to remember: you can not lose vigilance than ever, especially when making purchases. Even more so - through the Internet. Text: Olga Zabelkina.