![]() ![]() They did this to trick you into thinking that it was a positive recommendation from our known and trusted site, known world wide as experts in on-line fraud. The scammers also scraped and copied a page off our site and pasted one of our pages on a server in India owned by WebWerx and created a fake testimonial to their fraudulent Venture Auto Consignment site. ![]() Then you contact the "seller" to buy the used RV at a huge discount to the current market values. With their advertised used RV selling prices so low, they sucker you right in as you are drawn in by the baseless pipe dream that you are about to score your RV for thousands less than other sellers are asking. Then they post fake RV listings on-line in the used vehicle classifieds web sites such as Craigslist and eBay. The scammers have created an elaborate multifaceted scam that involves first setting up a fake vehicle consignment web site called which was still up and running at press time. Step inside the vortex of crime with us and watch and learn. We have been warning consumers about this type of escrow fraud for 15 years and now you'll be shocked just how much effort these scammers have gone to in order to make it appear you are dealing with an established business, including toll free numbers, fake positive 5-star on-line reviews and recommendations and more, but you are about to learn how to see through their smoke screens. You might be searching the Internet on Craigslist, eBay and even kijiji in Canada for a used boat or used RV and find one that seems priced way below market. Another escrow fraud site has popped up, posing as a consignment business, and attempting to act as an escrow site (a phony escrow in fact), and doing all this in violation of the law. Old VentureAutoConsignment has popped back up same with the design, new name and logo AutoZabiConsignment They also changed the address to some sky scraper in LA, with a phone number that never connects to a human, just a low quality robot voice often used by scammers stating the hours of operation, no matter what time of day you call. Really? A tall sky scraper and you don’t at least produce a suite number or floor number? No legitimate company lists their address like that.Īs the photo below shows, you can see that the new site has the same design as the old site, all they did was change the name and logo, because if you Google the old fraud site name: VentureAutoConsignment you'll see fraud reports from our site and others. One way you can tell the new site is a fraud is to look at their fake mailing address 601 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, 90017. The names are getting more unbelievable over time, because scammers of fraud sites are running out of quality domain names that keep getting shut down. This fraudulent web site that we alerted consumers about last year was shut down and has now re-appeared under a crazy new name called Auto Zabi Consignment (). While it isn't yet operational and won't likely be a free listings site, it will join Bring a Trailer and Craigslist in providing auto enthusiasts a place to buy and sell cool cars.Internet scam lures recreational vehicle buyers with RVs priced well below market, dupes them into wiring funds In what might be the best timing ever, Hemmings Motor News tweeted on Wednesday to announce it's working on a new online auction site, Hemmings Auctions. "We are Craigslist super users, I would say," said associate online editor Joey Capparella, who purchased his 1999 Honda Prelude from a Craigslist seller in Toledo, Ohio. ![]() Count our staff among the disappointed Craigslist users we even have a dedicated Slack channel used for sharing listings of cool cars on the site.Īssistant online editor Daniel Golson has only ever bought cars on Craigslist, including his 1994 Volvo 940 Turbo and 1984 Mercedes-Benz 300TD station wagons. Craigslist hasn't yet responded to their request for comment. It's a small amount, but the existence of any fee at all is sure to annoy auto enthusiasts who have come to rely on Craigslist as a place to find unique vehicles for sale.Īlthough the news of Craigslist's new fee first broke on Reddit, our colleagues at Road & Track have investigated as well. Starting April 15, Craigslist will begin charging a nominal $5 fee to list a vehicle for sale on its user-to-user sales website.
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