Be aware of a scam!
This happened outside of Audiogon, however I thought I'd share so other people won't get scammed.
It looks like a scam plot where bad guys post desirable HiFi gear for sale at various classified sites with cheap prices. Once you contact them they will tell you some BS that they need money and offer you escrow service to deliver the item, in my case some transportation company in Spain. The escrow service require full payment upfront and claim to be an intermediary between seller and buyer. In my case the guy introduced himself as Robert Szekeres (robert.szekeres1986@gmail.com...). He sent me the link to the escrow service company in Spain [url]https://transmachila-sl.com/trade_protection.php[/url]. The site looks legit except when I checked deeper it was created a couple months ago out of Reykjavik.
So needless to say I backed out of the deal.
Be vigilant people!
Very old scam, but yes everyone should be aware. I know someone who did this with her expensive wedding ring after divorce about 20 years ago. Ring gone and out shipping charges. She would have been better off loosing it down the drain. The escrow was illegitimate and simply a front for the scammer. I don't know why a person would feel secure sending money just because the destination has the word "escrow". |
@ozzy62 +1 Bingo! gmail account red flag #2. Price too good to be true red flag #1. Dealing through an "escrow service" red flag #3. Whenever I’m poking around Craigslist, especially autos, and an obvious scam comes up, every single time it was a gmail account with a fictitious name, like a name adds some kind of legitimacy to it. |
