WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED ONE OF OUR INVESTIGATORS?

As one of our investigators, you would inspect the automobile, truck or motorcycle and report back to the purchaser your findings.

For example, a possible purchaser in South Carolina has found what he thinks is his dream car in California. A 1917 Ford Model T. He would like to have it checked before he purchases it from the California seller.

You live in California. You go to where the Model T is located. Take photos and send them to the South Carolina buyer. Ask the questions the purchaser wants you to ask, look the Model T over, and give the buyer your opinion on the condition, and whether it has a clear title. You tell the buyer everything you know about the car and was told.

The buyer pays for your traveling expenses (gas, motel and food).

And now warnings to out of state car buyers.

CAR SCAM WARNINGS

These scams are documented and worldwide costing Hundreds of Millions of dollars a year. Please do not fall for any of these scams. Follow the precautions below and be suspicious of every inquiry.

Do not BUY or SELL any cars outside the USA.

Do not accept a cashier’s check without contacting the 800 number of the issuing bank and validating its authenticity, then wait for it to clear the bank before releasing the vehicle. Today anyone can print a check while the banking system has no way of validating it quickly.

Scams have been involved sending sellers a foreign or out of state cashiers check that was later to be found fake. In many cases even a bank cannot determine if a check is fake until it is submitted to the issuing bank, often taking 3 weeks and more often 2 weeks after the car is gone.

In one case a man is on trial for depositing a fake check that he accepted for his vehicle. Now with no car, no cash and facing jail time for being a victim.

Do NOT Refund an overpayment. Some sellers are faced with a buyer that either sends a check or claims to have someone send a check exceeding the sale amount and requesting that the seller pay the shipper and refund the balance to the fraudulent buyer. Not only have sellers lost their car, they also spent their own cash to do it.