Hey guys, please be gentle... I don't need any lectures on how not to be a stupid idiot, I'm giving myself a hard enough time already.
I'm normally really careful and research things I buy online carefully.. please don't fall for this guy, Zain Karim, on Facebook Marketplace like I did.. he's selling an Audi RS4 flat bottom steering wheel and has probably sold it many times already! He's got £300 of mine and I doubt he ever had the steering wheel in the first place... just want to stop anyone else falling for this scammer. He's very convincing, sent a proper invoice, very helpful, sent videos of him in a breakers with Audi's, various car parts being packed up, even sent a photo of the steering wheel with a note on with my name but only recently I realised it was a photoshop job as I found the same wheel and same picture on another advert but it was on a closed group I joined after getting done over.. I should have noticed all the signs but didn't in time and I sent the money by bank transfer, I even had second thoughts, called the bank to block payment, then let the money go through as he was so convincing. What a tool I am, but I saw something I really wanted for my car and wasn't thinking straight.. don't be a nob like I was! £300 down the toilet basically and that's a lot of money for me.
I'm going to report him to action fraud but doubt anything will happen. Have reported his listings on Facebook, but they won't do anything about it.
Gutted about the money and being made a mug.
I'm normally really careful and research things I buy online carefully.. please don't fall for this guy, Zain Karim, on Facebook Marketplace like I did.. he's selling an Audi RS4 flat bottom steering wheel and has probably sold it many times already! He's got £300 of mine and I doubt he ever had the steering wheel in the first place... just want to stop anyone else falling for this scammer. He's very convincing, sent a proper invoice, very helpful, sent videos of him in a breakers with Audi's, various car parts being packed up, even sent a photo of the steering wheel with a note on with my name but only recently I realised it was a photoshop job as I found the same wheel and same picture on another advert but it was on a closed group I joined after getting done over.. I should have noticed all the signs but didn't in time and I sent the money by bank transfer, I even had second thoughts, called the bank to block payment, then let the money go through as he was so convincing. What a tool I am, but I saw something I really wanted for my car and wasn't thinking straight.. don't be a nob like I was! £300 down the toilet basically and that's a lot of money for me.
I'm going to report him to action fraud but doubt anything will happen. Have reported his listings on Facebook, but they won't do anything about it.
Gutted about the money and being made a mug.