Beware Fraudulent '61 ES2 Ad

The phone number in the ad is for Miami, FL.

Is there anyone down there that can let some air out of this scammers tires?

Mike

Do you mean the Inter for £13,000 which is just expensive enough to make it seem genuine?

Does look awfully similar......

And in fact some of the same wording. I wonder whether the advertiser would care to respond? No, I thought not.

Hi Michael.

I've emailed Dave Kington, web manager with details.

Thanks for raising this.

I've had the following from Dave:

"Hi Ian,

The offending ad has been deleted. It's the second one we've had from someone in the US who joined for the first time and then placed a dodgy ad."

I think we should all keep our eyes open. There are frequent fraudulent listings on ebay which I always report and they disappear in short order. It's worth a few minutes of my time if it saves a genuine enthusiast heartache and cash.

Does this mean that criminals are now joing the NOC, paying an annual subscription etc. simply to be able to place false adverts ? Presumably they're hoping for a downpayment...I would hate to think that they were actually Norton Owners who scam on the side.

As long as we keep an eye out, we'll all benefit from their subscriptions. Do you actually have to be a member to post an ad?

I thought that you did, Ian and the reply that you got refers to 'joined for the first time'.

I don't know for sure. I always forget that the classified is there when I need parts and I'm hopeless at getting round to selling anything !

I believe that anyone can create a forum account (not just NOC members) and then post ads. Maybe something that should be addressed?

This is not the case. Only paid up members of the NOC can use the forum, or post adverts.

We do accept classifieds from non-members (for a fee..), but these are clearly marked as by non-members. (they have 'non member' as the posters name).

Another one on e bay at the moment 600 single £2500

Look at his other offers

P.s. I have put in a notification of fraud

TBH I'm not sure about them as they do have reserves which the scams usually don't......

They also suggest contacting via ebay and there isn't an email (often as an image) which there generally is on the scammers' entries.

Interesting that the mag and dynamo have been rebuilt on a coil ignition bike with alternator. Worrying that the alleged seller knows enough about bikes to understand that bikes of that era might have such things. So he's making a living out of his fraud.

500 cc Featherbed Inter up on UK EBay motors - seller will let it go for 5400 GBP - yeah , right .

What are the chances of this being legit ?