SCAMMERS ON ONLINE CAR MARKET

It may interest you to know that close to half of all vehicle ads placed on are from fraudsters who do not even have the cars they claimed they are selling. Their target is simple: to collect so-called Fuel/Logistics money. This fuel money ranges from 15K to 100K depending on the perceived distance. If you fall for the fuel money and send, get ready to send more money along the "journey" of the car to your location. They will fake traffic noise in the background while calling you, then demanding more money to pay for changing of tyres and other "unforseen circumstances". A true car dealer will not bother you for those sundry expenses.
Be wise. NEVER SEND ANY AMOUNT FOR FUEL OR LOGISTICS. If you can't inspect the car physically, don't buy.

How can you spot these "less than Yahoo" boys on jiji and other car markets?

First, they post the cleanest car pictures of popular models of cars, e.g: Toyota, VW, Honda, etc.

Second, the prices of the car are unbelievably lower than usual physical market prices. Remember their ads are as clean as direct cars.

Third, their locations are "very difficult" locations, considering the prevailing security situation in the country. This is almost always the reason why people ignore all warnings from jiji to fall for their fraudulent antics. You have fallen for the price, the pictures are clean, so why not facilitate the pushing of the car to your address. They will be the first to convince you to take a business risk and assure you of delivering the car to your address.

Fourth, these jiji scammers uses incoherent usernames and when they send their bank details its always difficult to reconcile the names on their Bank Account with their usernames, and harder to tie the bank details with people expected to be doing business from their presumed location.

Fifth, they are always recently (freshly) using jiji. This is because jiji works very hard to block them from time to time. So they keep registering new jiji accounts every week. Try chatting them up only on jiji, and in a few days time you find them blocked.

Lastly, these scammers on jiji have prefer chatting on whatsapp knowing jiji may block them before they cash out. They have business whatsapp accounts, which are mostly different from the number registered with jiji.

For the sake of maturity, I have refrained from calling out names, phone numbers, and bank details. Maybe in the next episode. I have full dossiers on them.

Nice info

Thank you. Let's popularize this scam alert. Its the season for criminals.

Kingdemu:
Nice info

There is a solution for all this...

1. Buyers should stop asking sellers to bring the car to them. I absolutely hate it when an intending buyer makes this request.
If you want to buy onions do you ask the onion seller to bring it to your location for you to price?

As long as the buyers aren't willing to go to the cars location, they will keep getting scammed.

Imagine one asking me if a car can be brought to ekiti state all the way from lagos.

Simple. Many thanks.

9icetoo:
There is a solution for all this...

1. Buyers should stop asking sellers to bring the car to them. I absolutely hate it when an intending buyer makes this request.
If you want to buy onions do you ask the onion seller to bring it to your location for you to price?

As long as the buyers aren't willing to go to the cars location, they will keep getting scammed.

Imagine one asking me if a car can be brought to ekiti state all the way from lagos.

Hmmmmm