Car buying scams and frauds

Due to a number of factors, not least the ongoing economic crisis, the second-hand car market nowadays reaches remarkable figures.

There are more and more citizens who, when choosing between new and second-hand cars, prefer to make significant savings by relying on a good used car. The same is also applicable for sportscars or hi-end vechiles.



Within this scenario, some ruthless people who, whenever not deliberately trying to cheat others from the start by selling the same car to more people, getting advances paid and then vanishing into thin air, they actually put in place outright frauds by illegally lowering car mileage, thus making outright bangers look like second-hand cars with a low mileage. 

Other fraud mechanisms consist in buying crashed cars and then reselling them at the same price as uncrashed cars, with the unsuspecting buyer ignoring that the vehicle has previously suffered a car accident.

Considering both the figures and the profitability of this "business", the most recent statistics say that the probability of hitting a dishonest seller, both dealer and private, is extremely high.

If you have found a car you would like to buy by investing all your savings in it and you want to make sure you are not buying an authentic bin or, worse, being literally robbed of all your money, contact us with confidence: we can offer you targeted investigations with the aim of unmasking fraudulent sellers and allowing you to safeguard your money while keeping away from a nasty surprise. 

Preliminary investigations are available by e-mail and start as low as €50 per single car.

Contact us to request your pre-emptive investigation to avoid scams and fraud on the sale of second-hand cars, by clicking HERE.