Very Scary Buyer Beware Story Fae Scotchland

[UmBongo]

Police probe stab attack on brothers

• 10 April 2015

Police investigating an attempted murder in which two brothers were stabbed in Edinburgh have said they are following various lines of inquiry.

Peter Stewart, 43, and his brother James, 45, told police they had travelled from Aberdeen to buy a car.

They said they were then set upon by two young men at Wardieburn Street West at 18:00 on Wednesday.

Detectives have been investigating this, but are now pursuing several other lines of inquiry.

Both men suffered serious injuries, with Peter's originally said to be in a critical condition, although this has since improved and he is now said to be stable.

His older brother was discharged from hospital on Thursday.

Officers, who are treating the incident as an attempted murder, want to speak to any witnesses who may have seen the attackers.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So it seems that the sale was a 'sting' and the neds knew that the guys from Aberdeen would be carrying a large amount of cash.

 

I wonder if it was on Gumtree or eBay?

 

I know this area and it can be pretty dodgy and there have been various incidents here over the years.

 

Worrying times for buyers of auto shite.

 

 

[CortinaDave]

It was gumtree apparently.. And they were carrying about £6000 in readies.

 

That alone gives me some comfort as I'm hardly worth stabbing for the 200 quid I'd usually be buying a car with.

[Jim Bell]

Agreed. I feel a bit edgy with £400 in my pocket when I'm traveling to the arse end of nowhere to buy a sack of shit off a Queens Park Ranger. I'm glad I can't afford to walk the streets with actual grown up money affecting the pleats in my trousers.

[Richard]

People have been stabbed for much less than £200.

 

The first page on Google brings up two other similar incidents. I wonder how many warning signs there were in the listing and transaction.

 

I think for a car at that money I would do a bank transfer, and walk away if the seller wasn't up for it.

[HillmanImp]

Some people were jailed last year for doing something similar in Bradford.

[Bren]

TBH surprised it does'nt happen more often.

 

People get stabbed for less than £6k.

 

I wonder how long it will be before a shitter shanks somebody for dragging them halfway across the UK to look at a pile of overpriced wank that has been incorrectly described?

[STUNO]

The same thing (without the actual stabbings) has been happening here recently. I can't find the newspaper reports now though. The latest headline on the paper's website is....Mr Whippy van held up at gunpoint.

 

Just found a report here....http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/67464710/Lured-via-Facebook-robbed-at-gunpoint

Edited April 12, 2015 by STUNO

[cort16]

eBay and autotrader have some accountability by the fact it's a paid service so you need a credit card making it a bit more complex .

Gumtree all you need is an email address and your away making it much easier to rob folk/ sell knock off gear

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

I have T4 on Gumtree for a £1000, last week I received 3 replies through Gumtree's email service informing me that I had received offers to buy it ranging from £750 to £900.

To accept any of these offers the email invited me to press reply, to contact the buyer, however non of the offers had a name or any other contact details so I ignored them.

Friday I received a Gumtree email warning me that one of messages may be fraudulent.

 

 

Hi there,

 

 

 

A user replied to your ad 'Volkswagen T4' with the email address [email protected] recently. Unfortunately, this user has been reported as committing suspicious activity and/or breaching the Gumtree Terms of Use.

     

If you are still in contact with the user, we recommend that you be extra careful.

   

Please consider the below advice:

• If you have not shared any personal information with this user, you don't need to do anything. Your email address is protected by Gumtree and they won't be able to contact you.
• If you have sent any personal information to this user, like your bank details or date of birth, you could be at risk. Follow our safety advice.
• If you have sent an item or money to this user please contact us on [email protected]

       

Thanks,

How can anyone make an offer through Gumtree with no I.D. ?

[colino]

I passed on this warning tale on another forum only after it was initially reported as a drugs deal gone bad , then was Police Scotland converted it into a Gumtree car sale that went awry.  You should always be cautious with cash, but it does pain privateers to let you walk away with cash when they have seen it and they don't know if the promised telephone buyers are going to turn up.

Anyway, it does appear that the police may be reverting to the original report and it was four druggies reverting to type.  (Not everything in Trainspotting was made up).

[martc]

Hasn't Arnold Clark been doing this in Scotland for years?

[Jim Bell]

(Not everything in Trainspotting was made up).

Yes it was. All of it. They were all actors and none of it was real.

[UmBongo]

 

Choose shite to run you over.

[bigfella2]

Maybe they were trying to prevent another volvo leaving Scotchland? Bare this in mind shiters when shiftng Ovlovs over the border.

[derskine]

It seems the best solution is always take a local heavy with you when buying cars from Gumtree.

[UltraWomble]

Im fine. 

I weigh 150kgs - its a medical phact fat people are harder to stab fatally, so if you have a car in Scotchland and you are afraid to get it, and if you can find me - maybe you can hire the Womble Team

[derskine]

My thinking was you can run away whilst the heavy gets battered.

[derskine]

In all seriousness I don't think you have anything to worry about if you're buying shite cars.

It's unlikely anyone planning to batter someone and steal their monis would put up an ad for a £400 Daewoo Matiz. 

[Uncle Jimmy]

We ought to regard shite purchase as carefully as any other deal involving strangers and cash. Whenever I go on a date I always carry a Swiss army knife and a rape alarm and meet in Marks and Sparks cafeteria.

[Junkman]

I'm so scared now, I think I'll never leave the house again.

This is a hostile planet I'm living on and everyone out there is just waiting for me to emerge from my four walls so he can kill me.

[Cavcraft]

I have T4 on Gumtree for a £1000, last week I received 3 replies through Gumtree's email service informing me that I had received offers to buy it ranging from £750 to £900.

To accept any of these offers the email invited me to press reply, to contact the buyer, however non of the offers had a name or any other contact details so I ignored them.

Friday I received a Gumtree email warning me that one of messages may be fraudulent.

 

 

Hi there,

 

 

 

A user replied to your ad 'Volkswagen T4' with the email address [email protected] recently. Unfortunately, this user has been reported as committing suspicious activity and/or breaching the Gumtree Terms of Use.

     

If you are still in contact with the user, we recommend that you be extra careful.

   

Please consider the below advice:

• If you have not shared any personal information with this user, you don't need to do anything. Your email address is protected by Gumtree and they won't be able to contact you.
• If you have sent any personal information to this user, like your bank details or date of birth, you could be at risk. Follow our safety advice.
• If you have sent an item or money to this user please contact us on [email protected]

       

Thanks,

How can anyone make an offer through Gumtree with no I.D. ?

 

 

That's the big problem with Gumtree, you can be anonymous and get away with it. Even if you're a registered user, if you mail someone all you have to do is change your name (the one you registered with) and nobody knows who you are. For arguments sake, if you're called David and you mail someone through there, your name appears in blue lettering to the person you're messaging and they can see your Gumtree details such as adverts. If, however, you change it to Dave (or anything else) it doesn't show up.

[captain_70s]

In all seriousness I don't think you have anything to worry about if you're buying shite cars.

It's unlikely anyone planning to batter someone and steal their monis would put up an ad for a £400 Daewoo Matiz. 

I would, £400, is a nice new stainless exhaust for the Dolly...

 

I'm not greedy.