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TPound:
February 2019..
I sold a car to a man who claims to work at a military establishment. He bought a car worth 1.4m from me and paid 1m. Asked me to follow him to his work place so as to get the balance but being busy, I designated my boy to follow him.
Few hours later, my boy called and was hysterical. The man asked him to come down to check what was bring out smoke from underneath at which there was none.
Immediately he alighted, the man zoomed off with his phone in the car.
He had to use a passerby's phone to call me.
I went to pick him up and we went to the place where he claimed to be working but there was no such person working there.
I was pained as there was nothing to be used to track him. He left with all the documents and receipts...
Ever had such experience, please share as there are lessons to be learnt from such.

You reminded me my case in Surulere in the year 2020 ( during corona virus break), I wanted to get a 04 white colour Corolla for someone,and I couldn't get one in my area here , so I call a friend of mine in Lagos to inspect one that I got via JIJI . I sent him the person's number and he called , they directed him to a car stand in Surulere Lagos, he went there with two other friends and bargained to 1.5m . They gave him the account number to pay after test driving the car/ inspection & confirmation of custom papers but couldn't pay it was already after banking hours, so he went there alone the next day and they told him to go to bank to pay. Before he returned from bank they have all left the car stand except one boy working for the owner of the car stand. So the guy called his boss and when he arrived he denied those guys that he had no link with them.
It took 3months to tracked and trailed them down , two arrested in Ondo/Akure ,one in Lagos & two in Abuja . They are syndicates of fraudster , two of them were exconvict and they confessed to have done similar thing to two different people in another car stand in Lagos after mine. In summary, Be careful of some of those road side car stands in Surulere and Festac town Lagos, Fraudsters/scammers work with few of them. I got my money back ! But I spent a lot and wasted time.

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2005 -07 Pontiac vibe with good engine is needed
First Body preferably

Manual gear Toyota Avensis with 1.8 engine
First Body
Price: 1.3m
Slightly Negotiable