Car stolen - help needed understanding the crime

I wonder a bit about this, I know it is true, probably likely, on a nigerian "send the balance back to me" scam, but does this actually happen on a cheque drawn on a UK bank account?

Hopefully it wouldn't take as long but you can actually cancel a cheque after it has been cleared into someone else's account, I'd hope doing so would be difficult especially with large cheque. The best place to ask is probably uk.people.consumers.ebay as they tend to stay up to date on all the ways to be ripped off.

Surely in the case of a Banker's Draft, it's easy enough to just phone up the bank to confirm that the draft was issued by them, n'est-ce pas?

-- Peter

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I paid for mine via CHAPS , saying that I was worried as he had my money AND the car, he was some 50 miles from my home. Luckily it all went through fine, saying that I would have walked away from the set up what the original poster reffered to .

I dunno about them, did use a "cashier's cheque" once to buy a car from a dealer but otherwise I always tend to send or receive a UK cheque. I'm under the impression this is safe enough as a forgery ought to be detected very simply as the numbers / magic ink won't match up when they put it through the machine.

If this is a false impression, I would quite like to know about that.

I cashed a cheque on an ebay purchase, showed up as credit on my online bank a/c, but was sent back to me a week later (debit refused or somesuch) and the amount debited from my a/c. I'd already sent the item off - only 50UKP, but still.

Rob

Which would bring up the possibility that the car is a ringer. In which case, the OP MIGHT have a problem when the insurance company decides they won't pay for it. I hope he lets us know how things progress, unfortunate as it may be for him, it's always wise to let these things out into the open so people can be aware of them. hopefully the HPi will pay out on their "insurance" if anything

Thats an early one - details? - how much?

Thats an early one - details? - how much?

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It's June 1999 approaching 70k and will be whatever the parkers price guide suggests.

Whoever answered the door might not have been telling the 100% truth though.