It's been brought to our attention that spam comments seemingly promoting Cars.com and referencing our URL are appearing on different blogs. While these comments are often (though not always) from a seemingly random Gmail account, all the comments mention cars within the body copy and direct people to the Cars.com website.
I speak with a lot of people throughout the day with questions about an email they received or a conversation they had with someone and they all wanted to know if they were dealing with someone who was legit or not. So I thought I would give everyone guidelines to help identify a scam whether your a seller or buyer.
In today's day and age people text more than they talk to each other. So it wouldn't be unusual to receive text messages for leads. However what better way for a fraudster to scam someone; you don't have the face-to-face contact that you once had, you don't have to talk to anyone and you can use a phone service to send text messages for you. What can be done to avoid these types of scams.
A salvaged title means that the vehicle at some point in time has been claimed a total loss by the insurance company (damage exceeded 50-75% of its actual cash value). Depending on the state, recovered stolen vehicles are issued salvaged titles and government agency vehicles are sometimes issued salvaged titles for vehicles that they have used and are now replacing with new vehicles.
I've been thinking about what to write for this week's blog and decided to blog about trends in fraud and what is being reported to us by our customers. Navigating the internet is an interesting experience, especially when we can buy groceries on-line, buy or sell a vehicle, go shopping and plan a vacation from the comfort of home or an office. So what trends in fraud am I seeing?
