WARNING ELAN FRAUD

[rgh0]

Does Yanni exist or his he just part of the fraud testing how we respond ???? - strange for a 1 post person to post about a dodge charger on the Elan site do you not think ?

cheers
Rohan

[paddy]

Does Yanni exist or his he just part of the fraud testing how we respond ???? - strange for a 1 post person to post about a dodge charger on the Elan site do you not think ?

Yes, I wondered that too

Paddy

[Jason1]

Would be ok if you were buying a sandwich, I do not see any residential property though?

May be it's his place of business?

[ardee_selby]

Does Yanni exist or his he just part of the fraud testing how we respond ???? - strange for a 1 post person to post about a dodge charger on the Elan site do you not think ?

cheers
Rohan

Yes, and having asked the question he hasn't "re-visited" to look at any responses...unless
as a guest, of course.

Richard

[Jason1]

He could ask for the VIN and the date the owner bought the car and check these via:

http://www.rac.co.uk/products-services/car-data-checks/

I would also ask for a scanned copy of V5 before travelling.

I remember running a HPI check on a car for my brother; it was only a ?2,000 car but the owner had a loan secured on it for ?2,000. We told the guy he could not sell the car without clearing the finance which he did not agree with so we walked away. The guy called up a week later in a huff saying he had now cleared the loan and if we wanted the car we had to pay an extra ?200 as it had cost him this to pay the load early! No we did not buy the car.

[yanni]

Yes I do exist at least for the while, more seriously many thanks for your answers and advices.
Be sure I am not part of the fraud, first of all, if you type 9 Utting Avenue-east on google you will find lotus ?lan forum, and be a fan of American car does not prohibits be a lover of British cars

[oldelanman]

Would be ok if you were buying a sandwich, I do not see any residential property though?

May be it's his place of business?

Wrong address I think Jason, the dodgy one is 9 Utting Avenue East.

[john knight]

I just read the entire thread and can inform you that I am the owner of this Elan. The original documents and the car itself are in my possession.

Johanna Doblhofer does not exist! The former owner was named Johann Doblhofer who imported the car from Manhattan to Austria in 1995. I bought the car from his widow whose name is NOT Johanna Doblhofer! All existing ads around Europe are frauds - I will not sell this Lotus unless I get bankrupt some day.

I'm very sorry for you, Ray and wish you good luck to get your money back at least.

John Knight

[stugilmour]

Welcome to the forum John and thanks for clearing things up.

[elanfan1]

John - very interesting that you should come forward. I'm sure Ray will want to speak with you to tie up the loose ends on the scam that was perpetrated upon him.

Do you have any idea how the scammers picked up the details of your car?

[john knight]

Hi Elanfan - I don't know how scammers work. From the former owner's widow I got photos as well as a pdf-copy of the documents before inspecting the car. Presumably she sent this documentation to other prospects too. One of them obviously used this information to deceive numerous people by adding just one single letter to the owners name and so changing his gender to female and "producing" a fictional person. I don't know about rates in the UK - in Austria a S2 in good condition costs around 30k Euros. I think in whole Europe a deal at 7000 should be examined very carefully.

Greetings, John

[1964 S1]

Tah Dah,
"John Knight" answers all the questions. No more questions, right?
Eric

[Bluefield]

Well, well, well... here we go again

http://www.autosale.se/showAd.asp?what=showad&id=61717

/Bluefield
26-3811

[elanfan1]

REPORTED

[elanfan1]

Reported it and got a quick reply saying they had deleted it - the link no longer works.

Please report to the advertisers any more Scam adverts - the more we keep on top of it the less people will get scammed.