I read a great article written by Arlene Culpepper on internet aution scams and borrowed the content below from her, but you can read the full article here: http://www.examiner.com/x-2552-New-Orleans-Crime-Examiner~y2009m6d30-Beware-of-internet-auction-scams The internet auction scam basically works like this. You want to buy a car on ebay and the seller contacts you wanting you to pay him [...]
The cash for clunkers bill passed by the house and senate is referred to as the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) known as cash for clunkers. The official federal website for the CARS program is http://www.cars.gov and this is where you need to go to qualify your clunker. After you qualify then you go to [...]
Insurance fraud is committed when an owner takes his car and just give up his car as if it was stolen then report the car as stolen. This is not a new scam but a scam that has been going on from the beginning. As the economy gets worse and more people lose jobs they [...]
Market adjustment is any excess fee over and above the MSRP window sticker. The car dealer may have a brand new model car like the 2010 Chevy Camaro and you will see a market adjustment window sticker price $2,000 higher than the MSRP. The dealers have limited availability when this new model first comes out [...]
How To Spot Fake Counterfeit Money When you sell your car by owner you need to be very careful when you accept cash because it could be fake money or counterfeit money. I was reading an article on how to spot counterfeit money that I wanted to share with you. They take you step by [...]
This is an old trick but the car dealer will tell you when you buy a new car that you are required to buy the extended warranty or extended service plan as a financing condition in order to get financed by the bank. This is a flat out lie so if the car salesman tells [...]
When your at the car dealer looking to buy a new car you need to look at the MSRP window sticker and add on stickers. Some dealers will have an add on sticker charging you for window etching. What is window etching? Window etching is when the car dealer scribes the VIN or vehicle identification [...]
Many people are losing there jobs and faced with bills they can barely pay so some are getting loans on there cars. They go to a auto title lender and have to pay huge fees and huge interest payments. In D.C. two settlements were reached with Viginia Automobile title lenders who agreed to repay over [...]
Can you imagine going to a car mechanic to get your car repaired and have the owners putting rats inside your car. Can you imagine putting your foot to the pedal driving along then feel a rat down by your pant leg trying to crawl up your leg. The car repair company the couple owned [...]
The Better Business Bureau is getting may complaints from consumers who are getting phone calls telling them their extended auto warranty is about to be expired. They will offer the consumer an extended warranty that has no relationship to there existing warranty with inferior warrantys. The consumer thinks they are just extending there current warranty. [...]