We have been looking to buy a new(ish) car. Found an advert on Autotrader that looked a good price and local, only had a telephone number to ring. When we rung the number (my partner tried from his phone and I tried once with mine) the number was apparently discontinued. However a day later we both received texts asking us to email an address if we were interested in the car.
We both looked at each other and said scam, but DP said he'd email as he wanted to know what the scan was. So he emailed and got into a dialogue with 'Lucy' who said that the car was located in Scotland (advert said a village in the Home Counties) and that if he Paypaled the money over they would ship the car to us. So this person is expecting £6800 to be put in their account and then obviously they would disappear.
We do now have the guys bank, account number, sort code and name, so potentially we could report him as a suspected scammer BUT would anyone be interested do you think? I tried to report him to Autotrader but the 'report window' didn't pop up. I suspect that might be our antivirus preventing that so I will try and do that again. My worry is some vulnerable person could fall for the scam and lose a huge chunk of money before Christmas and I'd love to prevent that if I could.