I Need Your Help - Someone is Using my F40 as Fraud Bait!

Glad you're having some fun out of this mess.
Love to Monica.

 

Hahaha.... Excellent!

Monica sounds like a babe!

 

Subscribed. This is fun. I was internetz shopping for few different cars, and this guy popped up a few days ago.

Wondering if the OPs car has "about 14000mls" as the CL ad says? This would be one more thread to unravel that it was not another car, and an honest mistake in the VIN(which is about as likely as losing six hard drives in the span of a few weeks).

I was gonna fly over to KELY and ask him to collect me at the airport so I could pick the Ferrari/Porsche I want from him - but it's too hot today. (tongue, firmly in cheek)

 

LOL! Super.

We should start calling you our Monster Of The Streets - I don't think we've had one before and it has a nice ring to it.

The email replies were hilariously creepy.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

You made Monica cry?????? LMAO - this site is so much better with you back on board....


Kevin

 

Thread of the month!

 

I was completely with this thread until I saw that the 100% legit seller (sarcasm) updated his web page. I believe my reaction when I visited the webpage was something along the lines of, "What in the actual ****?"

Pretty desperate ploy on his part.

 

If someone can get the seller's cell phone number, I can make his life somewhat unpleasant for a short while. It probably won't do anything productive, but it could at least be good for some giggles.

 

Two noteworthy updates (both of of which are on my blog post).

1) He updated his webpage to say I'm from Washington, instead of Oregon... which means he's reading my blog! LOL - awesome.

2) The craigslist ad has been "deleted by its author."

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/ctd/4564153802.html

Awww... sad face.

 

Oh, and also... mail sent to sales@ and mark@ rogclassics.com (both of which worked yesterday) now bounce with:

 

Must have "sold" it.

 

And... now he's changed the outgoing message on his "business" phone, as well as the names of all the extensions. I've posted recordings of them all in the latest update.

Fraud Alert: Mark Raider of Rogclassics in Ely, Nevada is using my Ferrari F40 as Bait | Steve Jenkins' Blog

 

Wow, just saw this thread. Then I managed to visit rogclassics.com...

Holy ****.

I've got some entertaining catching up to do ahead of me.

 

Just listened to the new extensions on your blog. This is so far out and such a farce it actually made me laugh

 

I'm dense, but what's the scam? How would he profit from this, since he turned down deposits and such? How does he walk away with money if he can't produce a car to show?

 

Well played, Steve

 

Yes I'm confused too????
Pete

 

I read the whole blog post - I just couldn't stop. A nice piece of work.
I wonder what's going on in Ely, NV today....

 

Low asking price? Really?

$500,000, is what they are going for around here.


At least the last two sold I know of sold for around EU 325K-350K.

 

US spec cars are worth more, for what should be obvious reasons.

 

They are going for $750,000-$1,000,000

 

find one at that price today mark, and sell your house to buy it......

 

Thx.

My guess is nothing is going on in Ely today. I don't even think "Mark" is or ever was there. I think it's possible he was running his scam from outside the country and using VoIP phone services with an Ely prefix. He was clearly using a fake Ely street address. But if he was there, or was planning on being there today, I'm certain his plans have changed.

I can only guess at what the "scam" really was going to be in its fully developed form. I was certain from the get-go that there was never a car, but him defacing his own website and changing his phone messages confirms that it was a fraud. However, I have no clue how he was going to try and make money.

My guess is that something would have happened so that interested customers "just missed out" on this "fantastic opportunity," but that they could make a deposit on "the next one."

Or maybe it was a bait and switch, and "what do I have to do to get you into this fantastic Honda accord?"

Or maybe it was a play to lure wealthy individuals -- along with the checkbooks he seemed insistent they bring -- to a small town in the middle of nowhere, take them to a "warehouse," force them to write checks at gunpoint, then keep them tied up long enough to cash them. Or maybe even worse...

Mark's insistence that he wasn't (yet?) asking for a deposit could have been some strange tactic to engender trust and lure them in. But there had to be some scam element to it, because if it were just a joke, he wouldn't have been so angry that I broke it up.

Or maybe he's just an idiot.

The latter seems highly likely.

 

It could be that he was just a sad individual who got his kicks by wasting the time of the wealthy through luring them out on pointless trips to the middle of nowhere. I can't see how he was going to profit without trying to take deposits.

Whatever the case, clearly he has issues.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Step 1: Arrange for a group of wealthy people to show up in a small town in the desert
Step 2: Put them all inside your SUV under the guise of taking them to the secret location where you've stored the car
Step 3: Produce a gun
Step 4: Profit

I'm not saying it was a GOOD plan...