How I almost fell for a car ad scam
Published on 2022/08/19, by NojusK.

One day I decided to publish an ad on mobile.de to sell my car. Considering it was my first time on that WebSite, a day later I received a message with the following(translated from German):

Hello, is your vehicle still for sale? If so, please send me an email at renegunter10@ gmail.com Greetings René Günter

Then a few days another:

Hello, If you still have this available for sale, please write to me at my email to have further discussions about this bentelesanders4@gmail.com. with friendly greetings, Bentele

It was suspicious, why they wanted to talk over E-mail, instead of using the WebSite's built-in chat feature, however after writing back and forth a couple E-mails, he wanted me to pay 350 euros to a supposed DB Schenker shipping company, whose E-mail address ended @gmail.com. I stopped talking to it and reported all of them to Google, which I hope they will.

Moral of this: be more cautious, when selling something OnLine.

Links:

https://www.dbschenker.com/de-de/ueber-uns/presse-center/db-schenker-news/achtung--betrugsmasche-beim-autoverkauf--676204